Director:
Jaume Collet-SerraCámara:
Jeff CutterMúsica:
John OttmanReparto:
Isabelle Fuhrman, Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Karel Roden, Aryana Engineer, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett, Margo Martindale, Rosemary Dunsmore (más)Streaming (2)
Sinopsis(1)
Cuando Kate y John Coleman pierden al bebé que estaban esperando, todo se derrumba a su alrededor. Su matrimonio se tambalea y la mente de Kate se llena de pesadillas, miedos y temores. Para intentar recuperar la normalidad, la pareja se dirige a un orfanato local con la intención de adoptar a un niño. Allí se sienten enigmáticamente atraídos por una niña de rostro angelical llamada Esther. Pero las cosas se tuercen tras la llegada de la muchacha a la casa de los Coleman, donde empiezan a ocurrir cosas extrañas. Cuando Kate empieza a darse cuenta de que Esther esconde un terrible secreto, intentará descubrir qué es, pero quizá sea demasiado tarde... (Warner Bros. España)
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Lo que más da miedo en esta película es el peligro de que alguien llega a manipular los hijos. Lo frágil que es la confianza y que somos capaces de hacer para tener una familia llena de amor y cariño nos puede convertir en monstruos para defender lo más importante. No hay fantasmas, vampiros ni nada sobrenatural. Solamente el ser más peligroso - humano.
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Such a good idea for a punchline certainly deserves better than this family (non)idyll with a stupidly behaving herd of adults and zero atmosphere. Or if not better, in any case shorter. While the first hour still works great, it gradually starts limping during the last half hour from one dumb cliché to another, in the last ten minutes becoming a parody of all of the worst genre clichés known to man. An unintentional parody, I should add. P.S.: It’s crying out for a Czech remake, we even have a perfect main protagonist (!SPOILER!) already.
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My goodness, that was quite nerve-wrecking! And it starts so easygoing (if we don’t count the first scene, that is), an idyll with smart little Esther and her likeable parents and siblings; I almost didn’t want to believe anything could go wrong. And it does! In the course of half an hour, Esther turns from a cute girl into the kind of bitch you want to murder with a pickaxe between the eyes, and the psycho-terror begins. Among other things, I liked how the film builds tension – there are several times when the director gives the impression that there’s a about to be jump-scare, a chilling scene or a twist, but he rarely delivers them, which does great service to keeping and increasing the attention of the viewer. For someone like Jaume Collet-Serra, who’s made the average House of Wax, this kind of mature psychological horror is a massive surprise and a great promise for the future.
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A reasonably good thriller with a thickened atmosphere – you can slowly see the rising of the heaviness, the dark atmosphere and despair. Of course, I enjoyed the film the most from about the time the two desperate parents meet Esther to the moment this sweetheart gets slapped in the hospital. Other than that, I wasn't really entertained; that’s right, I didn't care for the final "fight". Anyway, I rate it positively because it has a certain atmosphere. Don't expect anything supernatural, though, just a proper freak-out.
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Jaume Collet-Serra, the loser responsible for the desperately routine House of Wax, is supposed to coach the evil kid, one of those who are now (theoretically) supposed to be popular? I have no idea if he’s been talked out of it since then, or kept sedated in Hollywood, but please keep on making films just like this in the future! Considering the subject matter, the film goes quite outside the established horror practices of recent years, and so we get to watch two hours of PRECISE psychological games that confirm the holy truth that horror is all about the characters. It takes courage today to make the viewer tense by having characters more or less just having a dialogue with each other, but if it gets a little rough every now and then, the scriptwriter is supported by perfect actors. The adults are flawless, and the kids too, but twelve-year-old Isabelle Fuhrman gives me the chills (although according to the photos on IMDb, she’s actually a cute girl). It’s too bad that in the end, Serra didn't have the balls to get rid of the traditional genre vice, the clichéd ending. Whether or not DiCaprio and Silver were properly aware of what they were putting out into the world, I say again: just like this!
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