Forehead....
The director may want to go in a weird and mysterious style, but he has not fulfilled the most basic requirements of a horror film.
The biggest problem with this film is that the foreshadowing is too long and the narrative drags on. This is completely the problem caused by the director's self-esteem, wanting to be unconventional, and raising the pattern.
It took more than an hour to get to the main topic. Is there really no simpler way to reflect family conflicts? At the end, when there was half an hour left, I thought that the horror would finally start, but unfortunately, it was still procrastinating. When Dad was on fire, it was considered to be a climax, but the two-hour movie was only about ten minutes. This is what I expected to see half an hour into the movie. Including the process before my brother walked from the room to the living room to find Dad's body, it was too long. The director spent a lot of space in rendering the atmosphere, but the effect was not satisfactory. As a general audience, I just find it boring.
The so-called "fast food horror movie" where jump scare piles up blood and corpses is also better than this film under the theme of horror movies. The purpose of horror movies is to scare people. If the director gives the audience more than an hour of foreshadowing, then I will expect the remaining dozens of minutes to scare my scalp and make me feel that that hour is worth it. Too bad this movie doesn't. Not only did it not, but it made me feel that the previous hour or so was wasted. The typical thunder and rain is very disappointing.
There are horror films that visually bring fear, whether it is bloody violence, or ghosts and ghosts; there are also horror films that bring fear to the heart of a higher level, making people feel depressed and uncomfortable. The director wanted to take the second way, but it was a complete failure. I saw a comment before saying that this film is of the same type as Shining. The whole film of Shining is full of weirdness and makes people uneasy, but this film has no bright spots except for a few headless corpses, btw, director Must be a complete headless corpse lover, but as a viewer, I am completely immune to headless corpses.
This film is said to have a lot to do with mysticism, and it also has a lot of foreshadowing and a lot of easter eggs. Does that mean that audiences who are not interested in mysticism have no threshold for watching the film? As a horror film, no matter what details the director wants to bury and guide, horror must be the first element and cannot give way to others, otherwise it will be an incomparable failure.
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