Friday 18 April 2014

Film Review: The Appearing

Genre:  Horror | Mystery | Thriller 

Cert: (R-rated) 18cert

Director: Daric Gates

Writers: Daric Gates, Matthew J. Ryan

Starring: Will Wallace, Dean Cain, Don Swayze, Quinton Aaron, Emily Brooks, Wolfgang Bodison, Conroy Kanter, Abigail Cooper, Kris Deskins,  Tom Calococci, Payton Wood,Meghan McGregor,  Megan Kiniry, Melanie Rashbaum, Elizabeth Florer

Running time: 92 min
 
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: couple kissing around a camp fire, sex scene with clothes on

Violence & Gore: Scene of a young girl being stabbed, few scene where blood is seen., mention of suicide or murder, body is seen in the ground

Profanity:  demonic voice saying "you wife is a whore in hell".   

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: drinking in a bar

Frightening/Intense Scenes: Some scene maybe be a little disturbing but not enough to truly frighten.



Story: After suffering a tragic loss, a city detective named Michael and his wife move to a small town, where Michael joins the town police force. His first case, involving a missing person, leads him to discover that the town is plagued by a dark supernatural force. Michael will have to summon every ounce of courage in order to fight this darkness before it takes everything from him.

Likes : This isn't a train wreck of a horror film, its thought provoking with curtain content's with a demon called Asmodeus from the book of enok fallen angel that corrupt the weak mind with lust,desire to do thing evil. The story-line was easy to follow, perhaps a bit too simple at times, but it was weighed down by the fact that the movie never really got up into gear and left its mediocre pace in its wake.
The acting in the movie was wooden at best, and there weren't really any particular performances that stood out in any way. There was an shadow cast over the entire movie, from what appeared to be a fact that people weren't really putting their souls and wholeheartedly efforts into this movie.
The effects were actually adequate, as were the story line of the movie. Well, don't go and expect multi-million dollar effects here though, but the effects were used to good extend and did their jobs well enough but just the story-line lets this film down.Not every one will like this film.
The demonic possesses scene were ok but not really convincing enough, yet the film has a slightly dark feel to it for an average horror film that doesn't really hit a brilliant horror.


Dislikes : This film try's to be to much like "The exorcist", "The rite" or "The possession but sadly comes off a less carbon copy of those film due to poor direction & bad scripting, some of the acting isn't great feels a little wooden.

Overall : Not the best of horror but still good not great, demonic background story is good, just a shame on story line.

Rating: 3.2 out of 5 for entertainment / 4.3 out of 10 for horror/story-line.




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