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(2018)

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2/10
Sloppy, confusing and just all-around awful effort
Trying to get over a traumatic incident, a woman and her husband find a strange doll on vacation which soon triggers a series of supernatural events involving her and her friends which they learn is the result of a deadly curse involving the family and must stop it before it comes to fruition.

This one does have a few big problems as it's not that good. The biggest issue here is the egregious and laughably inappropriate reactions to everything going on. This one tends to ostensibly focus on a group of friends realizing they've fallen victim to a deadly curse yet this one seems to think that the rightful response to learning of a family sacrifice is to be upset about a secret hook-up years ago within the group, to write off supernatural attacks and encounters despite obvious evidence to the contrary or to suddenly go digging through their make-up preparing for a date instead of dealing with the oncoming curse about to affect them. The other big problem here is the obvious and hardly appealing low-budget feel that screams amateur-hour production. The general technical qualities, from laughable CGI-quality ghosts popping out of nowhere to conversations that fade out due to barely-audible recording quality and utterly obvious camera-quality all manage to make this one look cheap and cheesy. Since there's very little about any of this which makes sense as the film just carries on through scene after scene without making any sense. All in all, this highlights the incompetent technical work all the more and results in a jumbled, confusing mess of a good idea wasted on these issues. There are a few decent elements here. Among its better features is the efficiency that it gets everything ready and spelled out for the audience. In the span of the first ten minutes, the girls 'traumatic encounter with the intruder, the relationship with her friend and how they get introduced to the troublesome doll by visiting the antique shop which starts the supernatural hauntings and visions she soon experiences are all given out. It's rather nice that this is revealed pretty quickly and gives this a great pickup to going along from there with the various encounters and subplots due to this engaging and energetic opening. That also ties in the film's other enjoyable element in the constant supernatural attacks. With the dolls coming involved early on here, there's a lot to like here with the scenes of them moving around on their own in creepy manners to starting to manipulate objects around them to attack the group. The scenes of the girls' encountering strange disappearing noises and figures out in the park are a couple of solid suspenseful scenes while the final features an enjoyable ritual that's a prelude to the battle with the group against the dark forces of the curse in a fine, energetic enough battle. While it's not much, these are the film's positive elements.

Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Language.
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1/10
Terrible title for a terrible movie
jakegrogan-7523520 September 2020
This movie is awful. It attempts to tell the story of a young woman recovering from a traumatic home invasion in which she ended up killing the intruder in self defense. This premise would have made for an interesting drama/character study, but they instead chose to make it a horror movie by unnecessarily throwing in some ghosts and a cursed doll. Anything that might have had potential in this film was ruined by terrible acting and cheap effects that you can find on free editing software. I love low budget horror, but this brings nothing new to the table and is just very dull, cliche and uninteresting. The only reason I gave it three stars is because it seems like everybody involved was at least trying their best, which I can appreciate to a degree, but unfortunately they just simply ended up making a bad movie. The title of the movie, however, is so incredibly lame and generic that I now have to go back on what I said and question how hard they actually tried...
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1/10
Do you like exposition?
kardosma26 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Because this movie is 90% exposition interspersed with bad cgi 'scares'.

Added to the wooden line delivery and unlikely ways people respond to things, it adds up to a movie that makes 1hr 25mins feel like 10 hrs.

Spoiler (I guess): in one scene a woman is splitting up with her husband and she's smiling like an absolute lunatic the entire time. Almost like she couldn't help herself. And they left that take in. I actually thought they were joking around until the end of the scene where she tells him to get out and actually manages a partial frown.

Not sure if it's bad editing or bad scripting, but there are continuity errors up the wazoo, and the story jumps from incident to incident (hanging off the backbone of endless exposition, of course) with little or not connection between anything.

Oh, and look out for the Scottish descent part of the storyline (eyeroll). Just more random unrelated drivel highlighted by the fact that nobody sounded even remotely Scottish - at all.

Overall, I don't know what they were going for with this movie aside from a mixed knock off of Annabelle and every other killer doll movie ever made. But honestly, save the 125 minutes for something worthwhile.
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1/10
ITS SCARY THAT PEOPLE WERE PAID MONEY..
markbohamed14 August 2020
To make this movie, they should have paid people to watch it. It it so bad I could only watch the first 6 minutes before I turned it off and came to write this review. I don't write many reviews but I didn't want anyone to waste their time even giving this movie a try. First I'm pretty easy and generous on most horror movies and o watch A LOT of them. But the minute you start to watch this movie you will see how I only made it 6 minutes into the movie. The filming is terrible, the acting is worse and the couple of special effects were childlike. Please believe this review and don't waste your time. There are so many better movies to watch.
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1/10
Don't bother!
tinaphillips-415921 January 2021
Seriously don't bother! I gave up 34mins in.. The wooden acting was the worst added to a dis-jointed storyline and I just couldn't do it!
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