I don't know how Netflix does their decision-making, but it seems to be based on keywords rather than what a movie actually IS. Just because there's technically ghosts and mediums in a movie does NOT make it horror.
This. Is NOT. Horror. This is melodrama, and a very slow and agonizing one to watch at that.
I would even go so far as to say that this is a Therapy Movie where the writer/director is trying to work out some stuff that probably could have been done without spending millions of dollars, but what do I know? I'm not a movie-maker. :/
This was painful, but only because I seriously HATE melodrama. That's why whenever I see a horror involving a child who has died and the parent 'recovering', I rarely ever watch it, because it's a 50/50 chance it will just be slow and methodical and overly-dramatic.
As a drama, it's fine. Very sweet, several poignant vignettes of this couple and their ghost (?) son doing various stuff: Playing with trains, going to the beach, etc. The only 'horror' thing that really happens is when the windows get blown out because the kid is upset about the parents arguing. Other than that, it's not anything horror fans would want in a horror film.
I do feel like it drug some scenes on for way, way too long, however; it seemed to have a problem ending. It just...kept going. And going. Ugh, and going....
Anyroad, if you want a kind-of sweet melodrama about a couple healing through their relationship to their dead five-year-old, then I highly recommend it. If you want anything else, I'd suggest passing on it.
This. Is NOT. Horror. This is melodrama, and a very slow and agonizing one to watch at that.
I would even go so far as to say that this is a Therapy Movie where the writer/director is trying to work out some stuff that probably could have been done without spending millions of dollars, but what do I know? I'm not a movie-maker. :/
This was painful, but only because I seriously HATE melodrama. That's why whenever I see a horror involving a child who has died and the parent 'recovering', I rarely ever watch it, because it's a 50/50 chance it will just be slow and methodical and overly-dramatic.
As a drama, it's fine. Very sweet, several poignant vignettes of this couple and their ghost (?) son doing various stuff: Playing with trains, going to the beach, etc. The only 'horror' thing that really happens is when the windows get blown out because the kid is upset about the parents arguing. Other than that, it's not anything horror fans would want in a horror film.
I do feel like it drug some scenes on for way, way too long, however; it seemed to have a problem ending. It just...kept going. And going. Ugh, and going....
Anyroad, if you want a kind-of sweet melodrama about a couple healing through their relationship to their dead five-year-old, then I highly recommend it. If you want anything else, I'd suggest passing on it.