Even when this movie doesn't contribute with anything new to the genre, it's an interesting and peculiar proposal.
First and foremost, let's address the elephant in the room: Yalitza Aparico. After her Academy Award nominated debut in Roma, there has been a big anticipation and scrutiny of her new projects, unfortunatelly there's no much to say about this role, her time in screen is short, even though the movie lasts two hours and big part of the marketing campaing lied on Aparicio's presence, but hey, that's not her mistake right? It's just how marketing works. Her performance is good, although it doesn't require anything exceptional.
The better and the worst is the plot, Luis Mandoki had very interesting ideas but not all of them work.
Could this have been better? Yes.
Is a bad movie? No, it's way better than most of the horror movies Hollywood gives us every year.
First and foremost, let's address the elephant in the room: Yalitza Aparico. After her Academy Award nominated debut in Roma, there has been a big anticipation and scrutiny of her new projects, unfortunatelly there's no much to say about this role, her time in screen is short, even though the movie lasts two hours and big part of the marketing campaing lied on Aparicio's presence, but hey, that's not her mistake right? It's just how marketing works. Her performance is good, although it doesn't require anything exceptional.
The better and the worst is the plot, Luis Mandoki had very interesting ideas but not all of them work.
Could this have been better? Yes.
Is a bad movie? No, it's way better than most of the horror movies Hollywood gives us every year.