Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with insidious onset. Clinically, it is characterized by general dementia such as memory impairment, aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, impairment of visual spatial skills, executive dysfunction, and personality and behavior changes. The etiology is still unknown. Those who develop the disease before 65 years old are called Alzheimer's disease; those who develop the disease after 65 years old are called Alzheimer's disease.
The mother in the movie got this disease.
Originally just for the doctoral dissertation, a Chinese female brought a photography team to photograph the symptoms of Alzheimer's, but she did not expect to lead to a series of horror incidents of the demon's resurrection.
The daughter of the mother who received them is really like a man. It is also shown in the movie that she is a lesbian.
The overall sense of horror in the movie is good. From the mother’s midnight sleepwalking, digging a hole under a tree, getting an electric shock in the attic, abducting people in a hospital, swallowing people in a mine, etc., the rhythm is compact, the camera is expressive, and the effect is achieved in every horrible place. .
The key is the mother’s actor Jill Larson, who vividly interprets the weird, neurotic, sickly and devilish old lady, as if she really is a patient.
The best performance is not a performance at all. She had acted in "Shutter Island" before, and she really didn't pay attention to her.
The overall plot is the ghost story of the murderer doctor who believes in a cult and finds an old lady to possess his body after death and takes the opportunity to rebirth. But what I like most is the movie climax, where the old lady cracks in the mine and devours the little girl. I believe that people who like Junji Ito will also have a sense of resonance.
This film is still a pseudo-documentary style that I like. The film methodically shows the mother's condition one by one, which makes people feel sympathetic.
Later, I recalled the childhood life of mother and daughter. The mother and daughter depended on each other for life. Later, because of the alienation from reality, the daughter grew up and must be responsible for the sick mother.
What's moving is that even though everyone knows that the mother in the dark has become a demon, the photographer can't wait to flee, the daughter still desperately stepped forward to rescue, it can be said that family love has overcome fear.
At the end of the movie, the devil did not die, but succeeded in possessing the little girl. Mother was tossed to death and was also involved in lawsuits.
This film is definitely a masterpiece in a pseudo-documentary, much better than other "Atticus Institute", "Gallows", "Hangman" and so on.
It is my favorite horror pseudo-documentary of 2014.
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