Sure, when I sat down to watch the 2021 horror mystery movie "Seance", I can't claim that I was harboring much of any high hopes or expectations to the movie. Why? Well, the premise of it and its synopsis just made it seem like it was going to be another one of those a dime a dozen standard young adult horror movies.
But still, giving writer and director Simon Barrett the benefit of the doubt, since it was a movie that I hadn't already seen, I sat down to watch "Seance".
And I gave up on it shortly after crossing the halfway mark. Man, talk about a trivial and generic horror movie. Everything that transpired within the storyline of "Seance" is stuff that has been done and seen in countless other horror movies, and quite often done and seen better in other movies. So yeah, "Seance" wasn't all that and a bag of potato chips.
The storyline, aside from being generic, was incredibly slow paced and uneventful. So it was quite a struggle and an ordeal to sit through this movie and find even just anything remotely enjoyable.
Well, that was not entirely true, because the acting performances put on by the cast in "Seance" was actually quite good, especially when taking into consideration that the actresses and actors just about had virtually nothing to work with in terms of a proper storyline, interesting characters or anything else for that matter.
For a horror movie then writer and director Simon Barrett was off the mark by miles. There was absolutely nothing scary about the movie. Well, not unless you count sitting through a rigid and wooden storyline as being scary.
If you enjoy horror movies, do yourself a favor and give "Seance" a wide berth. It just simply isn't worth the time, money or effort.
My rating of "Seance" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.
But still, giving writer and director Simon Barrett the benefit of the doubt, since it was a movie that I hadn't already seen, I sat down to watch "Seance".
And I gave up on it shortly after crossing the halfway mark. Man, talk about a trivial and generic horror movie. Everything that transpired within the storyline of "Seance" is stuff that has been done and seen in countless other horror movies, and quite often done and seen better in other movies. So yeah, "Seance" wasn't all that and a bag of potato chips.
The storyline, aside from being generic, was incredibly slow paced and uneventful. So it was quite a struggle and an ordeal to sit through this movie and find even just anything remotely enjoyable.
Well, that was not entirely true, because the acting performances put on by the cast in "Seance" was actually quite good, especially when taking into consideration that the actresses and actors just about had virtually nothing to work with in terms of a proper storyline, interesting characters or anything else for that matter.
For a horror movie then writer and director Simon Barrett was off the mark by miles. There was absolutely nothing scary about the movie. Well, not unless you count sitting through a rigid and wooden storyline as being scary.
If you enjoy horror movies, do yourself a favor and give "Seance" a wide berth. It just simply isn't worth the time, money or effort.
My rating of "Seance" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.