Reviews

This is overall a brilliantly done thriller with superb acting all around, the drawback (and the reason for my 8 star rating rather than a 10) is the ending! When we find out that Craig is actually really Eddie I had been expecting it and was not happy about it! The trend in these newer British thrillers seems to be that in the end the hugely likable character who we all felt sorry for turns out to be the bad guy after all! (See Deadwater Fell and at least one other one I can't remember the name of now). The so-called "twist" is becoming the expected norm and I for one don't like it!

Ok, I really liked this movie and the performances until it came to the baby part! What? I honestly thought she was faking a pregnancy, which would have been a more fitting storyline, given the whole scenerio! All of a sudden, (after she looks about 4 or 5 months pregnant at most, trust me, I've had three kids, I know all about this, she supposedly goes into labor after being rebuked by her boy friend Greg over a scary mural she painted in the baby's room)in the bathroom and refuses medical help!?! Ok, next scene is that she supposedly gave birth and there is an actual baby, umm, really? How exactly did this whole process take place? Not addressed at all! Unless I missed it during a bathroom break which I doubt because I generally pause! Then (after obviously not breastfeeding for several weeks) Greg finds some pills that "supposedly" supress lactation, again, umm, right, if you don't breastfeed from the get go, your milk generally dries up within days, that is, after your milk actually comes in after the colostrum! Ok, sorry, don't mean to gross anyone out, but after the baby part this movie lost me, I have to agree with the negative reviews which suggest that the positive reviews were "bought", there is just way too much storyline here, they started out with a very good premise, I thought the protaganist's aloof portrayal of a detached killer was very good initially and how effectively she manipulated the various characters along the way (even though I was a bit disappointed in the guy in the suit who obviously had some relation to Greg's ex girl friend), normally this is where they say, something odd here, we'll investigate! That didn't happen here, and of course 9 times out of ten that cop happens (if he investigates) to either find the killer or meet his fate🤣🤣, no, too much storyline, her history never gets explored and who cares, everybody winds up dead in the end except the baby ( I'm surprised at that actually)and the alcoholic mother, oh hang on, and the actual killer! No, don't bother!

I found the movie, although obviously low budget quite scary and therefore I think it should be classified as horror, rather than thriller, in my humble opinion! As I am from the generation of the first Halloween movie I find the idea of an "actual person" used to portray the antagonist or whoever he may turn out to be (rather than an indication of how low budget this movie is as one critic suggested) quite refreshing and super scary! Yes, there are several flaws in the storyline ( the girl's mysterious symptoms and illness, which are never explained, the miraculous cure in the end, the inexplicable behaviour of the bar goons going on the "beating up" rampage because they're obviously not involved in any cover-up, Violet's death) and the over the top aggressive acting of some characters, especially the sheriff, oh dear, he should get a razzie, whoever played him! His son, whoever the actor is should be a close second, does not make a horrible movie though! I like a good old fashioned murder mystery even with a ghost involved. The inconsistent blending of timelines (note the older car models, the fact that no one has a cell phone and phone conversations are made and received via rotary phones, etc., yet the characters clothing suggest a contemporary timeline)may be a metaphor the director tried to convey? Who knows, all in all, I quite enjoyed the movie!