Touches You

Memorable, crazy movie

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

WORST WORST WORST so called 'horror' movie I have ever watched. Should have checked the rating before watching it. I wonder how did the director come out with the story line but the acting was just pure stupid. (Not like the acting sucks but the character that they had to act)I'm just here warning everyone not to watch this horrendous movie. Seriously it's just waste of your time.

I wish I could give this a lower score.Completely lacking in originality. I feel like the creators of this movie opened The Big Book of Horror Movie Clichés, blindly pointed at a dozen or so pages and put them all together.The actors switched between overacting and looking so uninterested they were ready to walk off the set. The characters had absolutely no depth. The plot was typical - recent widower moves to a new neighborhood with his kids, the angsty rebellious teenage daughter and the two token younger kids. The house is beautiful and old and suspiciously cheap. Creepy things start happening, dad rationalizes. Generic evil entity takes control of the kids, kids beat dad to death in the spooky attic.Honestly, it was a relief when they all died in the end.

The 3.8 rating put me off, but after reading some of the reviews that said people were being too unkind about this movie I decided to give it a try. It starts in 1891 and instantly comes across as one of those old Italian horror movies that you would rather poke your eyes with a short stick than watch any more of, but after the first ten minutes the film comes back to the modern day and stays there.The acting is okay. The story isn't particularly original, in fact it reminds me of the first season of American Horror Story just not so good, though it's still watchable (depending on your individual standards of course). It has all the usual goings on you'd expect from a horror film, and I guess it's on a similar quality level to The Visit, but I preferred this one; maybe because I was really looking forward to The Visit and got seriously let down, whilst I had serious doubts about this one and it turned out to be not so bad as I feared.If you watch this with the 3.8 rating in mind then you might just get pleasantly surprised. It's by no means perfect, but it kept me watching until the end and that says something as I've rolled my eyes at plenty of films in the past and have switched them off, but I made it through this one with only a few heavy sighs and a stern look or two at God for letting the makers put some things into this movie's story-line. I've given this 5/10, but it may be around a (watchable) 4.5, really.

The Remains - 2016Before I start, I am forewarning you for spoilers. Only minor ones, but I don't want to ruin the film for anyone wishing to watch it. Although it would be a mistake to.The film follows a family of 4 who are moving into a new house after the recent passing of the protagonist's, John's, wife. The film begins with short scene to set the background and foreshadow certain items for later on. Once this is over we see the family on the way to view the property. Two young weird children, an ignorant teen with a secret boyfriend, whose existence adds nothing to the plot, and a paranoid father. They arrive at the house, meet the agent selling it and then move in pretty much instantly. None of the kids are happy about it, the family have no idea of the buildings background and to round it all up, the acting makes you cringe. And we aren't even 20 minutes in. A few more scenes follow containing strange happenings and more bad acting before eventually the two younger kids venture into the attic and find a wooden box full of mysterious items; which you will remember from the first scene of the film if you hadn't thrown the disc away by this point. The girl becomes attached to the doll found in the box and then everything become "freaky". The acting begins to quickly get worse and the camera work is poorly executed. The lines delivered are weak and have terribly awkward silences between them.Skipping all the needless scenes between, the highlight of the film for me was when John dreams about beating his son's skull in with a baseball bat. Not because I was so sick of the kids acting and wanted to do it myself, but because it is the best acted scene in the entire movie. The look John gives whilst he's doing it genuinely makes him look like he's going mad, the fake blood used looked realistic (well done fx crew) and it just wasn't expected which I liked. It gave the film a moment when you though 'maybe the film will pick up after this great and slightly disturbing scene'. Spoiler alert.. I'm afraid not. More bad camera work, more pointless scenes, poor jump scares and the ending scene reminded me of a children's comedy on TV made to amuse 11 year old kids.Whoever wrote and directed the film was desperately trying to live up to the films James Wan has directed and written in the past. After watching the trailer, I was excited and had hope for it. But now I've been left disappointed and feel like my time has been wasted. The only reason this film should be watched is so drama students can learn how not to act so we may hope that no more let down horror and thriller films come out in the near future.The truth hurts. See you in the review section.