Yes, it would have been a 75 minute movie (almost unheard of these days) without this filler. Things are over-explained, background material we might be curious about is fleshed in needlessly. Sound effects and jolts of music heighten the effects. The magical talismans, if you know your “Morphology of a Folktale” ingredients, are well chosen - a hand-cranked generator/flashlight, candles, a cell-phone scene. An opening scene puts Billie Burke (“Twilight”) in jeopardy, the missing “Dad” in all this, jump-starting a brisk 81 minute fright. Sandberg, remaking his own short film and working under horror impresario producer James Wan (“Insidious”) sets up the terror, the monster and the dilemma - nobody believes them - nicely. But can she keep Martin safe in her tiny apartment upstairs from a tattoo parlor? Will the pink neon “Tatoos” sign shining through the windows be enough to keep Diana at bay?ĭavid F. She has faint memories of being menaced by Diana. Teresa Palmer of “Warm Bodies” and “The Choice” plays Rebecca, the Goth half-sister who left home, it turns out, for the same reasons Martin comes knocking at her door. Because that’s when “Diana” will get him. It’s an elemental thriller, a ghost story told in pools of light in deep darkness, with a child in peril and that moment when the child recognizes that crazy Mommy (Maria Bello) isn’t just talking to herself and won’t be any help at all with this boogey-girl haunting his nights.Īnd that little boy, Martin, played by Gabriel Bareman? He plays that kid scared out of his wits, shutting his door, afraid to turn the lights out. We need to believe that the people up there on the screen are shocked at what they’re seeing, mortified at their mortal danger.
You don’t realize how much a good horror movie depends on acting until you stumble in that rare one whose cast actually gets it right.
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