The Blackcoat's Daughter

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Ross M A slow-burning tour de force. Action free for much of the movie but it slowly builds up the connections and the dread, amplifying the horror when it finally arrives. Deserves close attention and re-watching so not for the casual. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/23/24 Full Review Glenn Thomas D At worst off-putting, half-baked and confusing. At best freaky, scary and really original, which is worth a lot in a horror film. Great performances, cinematography and sound design. Sloooooooow. All in all it worked for me. Pretty much. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/23/24 Full Review Mick V Psychologically difficult to decipher. Just an evil spirit. Don’t want to spoil it, but it’s a timeline sort of film. Need to fit pieces together, if you can, this was a masterpiece. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/22/24 Full Review Joy G Slow burn, chilling break up story with a twist. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/19/24 Full Review Korra N Grim, bleak and disturbing, Oz Perkins crafts a haunting and compelling mystery with impeccable acting and some twisted turns. There are cliches, but they work because the end result is something both unsettling and poignant. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/07/24 Full Review Nathan W It takes an awful lot for me to rate something below two stars, but this one was pushing all my buttons. For starters, nothing happens for the first half of the film. The pacing is slow, the plot is dull, and there's no real story taking shape. Sure, the score is creepy and ominous, but it mostly feels out of place because the movie is accomplishing neither of those things. Most of the acting was fine, but none of the performances wowed me, and all the interactions were a little off. The script was passable too, but the dialogue was largely uninteresting, and it didn't make a whole lot of sense. There was not enough character building, and no one was likeable enough on their own, so I didn't really care what happened to anyone. And without that, your chances of creating any measure of suspense drops dramatically. The story was hard to understand already, but then the plot jumped around to different times within said story, which just made everything more confusing. (Critics love non-linear storytelling, but I have seldom found an instance where it added more to a film than it took away). The thing that bothered me the most, however, is how it was filmed. Not the overall cinematography, which was actually quite nice. The shots were the perfect balance of unique and stylish, without coming across as pretentious. But every scene was extremely dark, and I couldn't tell what was going on. You think you're setting the tone of the film, being all shadowy and mysterious, but it just comes across as annoying since we can't see anything! Then in the second half, it turns into a possession/slasher flick, for some reason? It pretty much comes out of nowhere, because nothing was explained, and there was no reason for it to happen. It's just not a very well put together, or entertaining picture. It lacked suspense, since I was constantly trying to figure out what was going on, and I would argue that it was more disturbing than actually scary. (And that stuff was only near the end of the third act anyways). The ending was the final nail in the coffin, as far as I'm concerned, since I could not make heads or tails of the sh*t. Normally, this is the point in my reviews where I say that, "This could have been something good if blank had been better". But I got nothing for this movie. I think it was a poor idea all around, and I'm not sure why it was even made. It felt like more like a student film than anything else, and it brought shame to the good people at A24 studio. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 06/29/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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