It's indeed an horrific film mainly because of its horrible story and cheesy bad writing. The cringe-worthy script from an unknown novelist Mario Alaman is full of loopholes, senseless plots and cliches that will leave viewers cheated for sitting through the movie for one and half hours.
Some things just don't add up. So did the dead just booked a villa? How on earth did they do that--how did they pay? The product placements were quite obvious and off-putting. You will feel that some horror elements were added just to display the product like a scene that seemed to be straight out of Poltergeist. There is a scene where the daughter was talking to a ghost that was trapped and killed in a cabinet, later we find out that the ghost was actually the daughter that was previously suffocated when she and her brother hid inside the cabinet to elude the killers--so how can a ghost talk to her own ghost? Was the doll Jennifer controlling all the weird things happening in the house? Or those restless ghost acted by themselves because of the traumatic and bloody massacre that occurred in the villa? It was not clear-- and sadly this has been the case for the whole movie--to many confused plots and elements.
To take advantage of the popularity of the Anabelle franchise, a doll called Jennifer was thrown into the mix to add some horror elements but failed miserably. The doll plot did not help progress the main plot but instead became an obstacle to the story development.
The cheesy ending feels forced and you can smell the twist from a mile. To be fair, the Italian director did manage to put his stamp and provide some visual enhancement, sadly, it cannot salvage the poorly developed story by Mr. Alaman.
Some things just don't add up. So did the dead just booked a villa? How on earth did they do that--how did they pay? The product placements were quite obvious and off-putting. You will feel that some horror elements were added just to display the product like a scene that seemed to be straight out of Poltergeist. There is a scene where the daughter was talking to a ghost that was trapped and killed in a cabinet, later we find out that the ghost was actually the daughter that was previously suffocated when she and her brother hid inside the cabinet to elude the killers--so how can a ghost talk to her own ghost? Was the doll Jennifer controlling all the weird things happening in the house? Or those restless ghost acted by themselves because of the traumatic and bloody massacre that occurred in the villa? It was not clear-- and sadly this has been the case for the whole movie--to many confused plots and elements.
To take advantage of the popularity of the Anabelle franchise, a doll called Jennifer was thrown into the mix to add some horror elements but failed miserably. The doll plot did not help progress the main plot but instead became an obstacle to the story development.
The cheesy ending feels forced and you can smell the twist from a mile. To be fair, the Italian director did manage to put his stamp and provide some visual enhancement, sadly, it cannot salvage the poorly developed story by Mr. Alaman.