Paul Magne Haakonsen The synopsis for "The Remains" is what lured me in, well, and also because I have always enjoyed horror movies. But I wasn't familiar with this movie prior to stumbling upon it by sheer random luck.And now having seen it, I can check it off the list, and say that I have seen it. It wasn't a particularly impressive movie, to be bluntly honest. The movie had a huge potential, but director Thomas Della Bella didn't utilize the potential. And the few scare moments there were to be found throughout the movie ended up as being nothing impressive, mere moments that you shrugged off with a casual shake of the head.I will say that the atmosphere in the movie was good, and Thomas Della Bella was good at building up the suspense, but he just lacked the conviction to bring it to a fulfilling climax. As such, then the movie suffered terribly, and ended up being less than mediocre.For a horror movie, then the only really frightening thing about the movie was the lack of scary moments and things that actually made you want to turn on the light. It was a dull, slow experience if you are looking for a good scare.The acting in "The Remains" was adequate, and it was Todd Lowe who was carrying the movie with his performance.Usually a good horror movie also has fairly good special effects. "The Remains" hardly used any special effects. So don't expect this to be a glorious Hollywood special effects galore.The best thing about the movie was actually the ending. That took me by surprise, and I hadn't seen that coming. So that was an upside to an otherwise flaccid and monotone movie."The Remains" is the type of horror movie that you watch once, then you bag and tag it, put it on the shelf, most likely never to see the light of day again.

benlukeryder The Remains - 2016Before I start, I am forewarning you for spoilers. Only minor ones, but I don't want to ruin the film for anyone wishing to watch it. Although it would be a mistake to.The film follows a family of 4 who are moving into a new house after the recent passing of the protagonist's, John's, wife. The film begins with short scene to set the background and foreshadow certain items for later on. Once this is over we see the family on the way to view the property. Two young weird children, an ignorant teen with a secret boyfriend, whose existence adds nothing to the plot, and a paranoid father. They arrive at the house, meet the agent selling it and then move in pretty much instantly. None of the kids are happy about it, the family have no idea of the buildings background and to round it all up, the acting makes you cringe. And we aren't even 20 minutes in. A few more scenes follow containing strange happenings and more bad acting before eventually the two younger kids venture into the attic and find a wooden box full of mysterious items; which you will remember from the first scene of the film if you hadn't thrown the disc away by this point. The girl becomes attached to the doll found in the box and then everything become "freaky". The acting begins to quickly get worse and the camera work is poorly executed. The lines delivered are weak and have terribly awkward silences between them.Skipping all the needless scenes between, the highlight of the film for me was when John dreams about beating his son's skull in with a baseball bat. Not because I was so sick of the kids acting and wanted to do it myself, but because it is the best acted scene in the entire movie. The look John gives whilst he's doing it genuinely makes him look like he's going mad, the fake blood used looked realistic (well done fx crew) and it just wasn't expected which I liked. It gave the film a moment when you though 'maybe the film will pick up after this great and slightly disturbing scene'. Spoiler alert.. I'm afraid not. More bad camera work, more pointless scenes, poor jump scares and the ending scene reminded me of a children's comedy on TV made to amuse 11 year old kids.Whoever wrote and directed the film was desperately trying to live up to the films James Wan has directed and written in the past. After watching the trailer, I was excited and had hope for it. But now I've been left disappointed and feel like my time has been wasted. The only reason this film should be watched is so drama students can learn how not to act so we may hope that no more let down horror and thriller films come out in the near future.The truth hurts. See you in the review section.

Mista_K After seeing the rating before the movie I was a little hesitant on even starting it. A lot of negative ratings on here but I gotta say the movie wasn't that bad, it started off strong and caught my interest. Some down falls would be some cheesy acting and predictable scenes. The little daughter made an impression on me I feel like she was the best actress of the movie and was convincing in a lot of her scenes, I would say she has a promising career ahead of her especially in horror films.All in all if your a horror fan the movie is worth a watch, although if you find it to be that bad. Don't regret turning it off you wont miss anything special..

InfinateANGELzPORTALz As I said,I know this films NOT worth rating it a 10,IMHO its more of a 7,yet definitely IS worth more than its current 3.8 average rating!I agree w/the review written by flitz35-638-627650 .I also think yes,this was likely a"Low Movie-Budget"type of film made.But it was used rather well to where if they had more to work with,would've made it possible to do more with it.Although even with BOTH the Actors & the Directing was done rather well and worked with what they had to use.Its kinda great to see good films,like this.that are as I would call a"B-/B-Minus"film where it didn't have a"Big-Budget,&Large Amounts of Advertising",yet was made using a decent story line in the amount of"run time"they were given to work with,that didn't come across as badly done w/it's quality too!I feel that there have been WAY Worse films made.You know the kind,where the actors hired were terrible,the video equipment used was obviously like it'd been either cheap,or inexperienced in using to where the shots used After editing,were still poor quality in many ways,that even"Made for TV"movies are done better!!We all know what it's like where you either are shutting the movie off after 10mins or so,OR,you're still watching & thinking"Maybe it'll get better soon?....Maybe now,it'll get better soon?!!....",but it never did as the credits start to roll....Just sayin,I think this is film worth trying to watch!