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Director:
Floria Sigismondi
Stars:
Mackenzie Davis,
Finn Wolfhard,
Brooklynn Prince
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A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Director:
William Eubank
Stars:
Kristen Stewart,
Vincent Cassel,
Mamoudou Athie
A defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parent's imminent divorce, faces off with a thousand year-old witch, who is living beneath the skin of and posing as the woman next door.
Directors:
Brett Pierce,
Drew T. Pierce
Stars:
John-Paul Howard,
Piper Curda,
Jamison Jones
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When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Director:
Leigh Whannell
Stars:
Elisabeth Moss,
Oliver Jackson-Cohen,
Harriet Dyer
The story is about a family moves to a house in a countryside after a son (Jude) and mother (Liza) both traumatised from an unexpected burglary. Jude finds a dirty, dusty porcelain doll and calls it Brahms. Everything then change in a sinister way because of the doll.Written by
daphleung
This movie was previously scheduled to be released on 26 July 2019, and 6 December 2019. See more »
Goofs
Although the guest house was supposed to be set in England, the power sockets and light switches are of US origin. See more »
Quotes
Jude:
[from the trailer]
It's okay to be scared sometimes/it's fun to be scared sometimes
[first lines]
Jude:
I gottcha good did I
[last lines]
Jude:
[looking at his reflection only to see Brahms staring back at him]
I think we're gonna like it here Brahms... as long as they follow the rules
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I don't see the horror behind this movie, it feels to me - at most - like a slow haunted doll thriller with the lack of scares. The story is limited, a traumatized family moves to guest house where their kid, Jude finds Brahms the doll in the near forest and things starts to get weird around the family for not following the doll rules.
Nothing new here, the screenplay is dull and you can skip full minutes without losing any of the storyline, the character development is awful, the movie is well shot but with the lack of a strong plot it doesn't add much. I think it'd have been a very good film if it was summed into a short film because clearly if they wanted this to succeed as a feature film they could've gone through the trouble of coming up with an interesting new idea or at least a single twist in the story, I believe this movie is an effort and a chance gone wasted. over all it's watchable but won't be enjoyable unless you watch it in 2x speed.
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I don't see the horror behind this movie, it feels to me - at most - like a slow haunted doll thriller with the lack of scares. The story is limited, a traumatized family moves to guest house where their kid, Jude finds Brahms the doll in the near forest and things starts to get weird around the family for not following the doll rules.
Nothing new here, the screenplay is dull and you can skip full minutes without losing any of the storyline, the character development is awful, the movie is well shot but with the lack of a strong plot it doesn't add much. I think it'd have been a very good film if it was summed into a short film because clearly if they wanted this to succeed as a feature film they could've gone through the trouble of coming up with an interesting new idea or at least a single twist in the story, I believe this movie is an effort and a chance gone wasted. over all it's watchable but won't be enjoyable unless you watch it in 2x speed.