Never Let Go

This was an 8 for me, hell maybe even a 10, up until the last 20-30 minutes. It turns in on itself so many times that any thematic meaning was lost.

A solid horror thriller that is though just average to my mind. The story is just mostly too unbelievable to keep up the suspense. For fans of the genre.

I was ready to walk if she had killed the dog.

Nolan was the only reasonable character up to the last second.

And either I didn't catch it or it was a plot hole, but was it explained as to why Samuel was able to get inside the house after being possessed?

Like the inside of my brain: it's giving a quiet place.

I really like Alexandre Aja and he directed this very well but the forced ambiguity didn't pique my curiosity, it popped my interest.

Unlike the title, this doesn't know when to let go. The performances gave me nothing but goosebumps. More goosebumps than any of the storytelling did. The opening sequence is the scariest bit, unfortunately. Half of your questions won't get answered, the other half is told in a tangle. Desolate visuals and eerie sounds pit you in isolation and drag you out. Each act gets progressively more insane and doubtful but at the cost of a truck full of tension. I loved the originality, but it was stuck in a bland and repetitive pace till it ended with in a generic, 'more questions than any answer' way.

A film about the "darkness that's in your blood", which in this case is schizophrenia.

Schizophrenic hallucinations are truly a hell of a thing, pair it with starvation and trauma, and you've got a recipe for absolutely flaming disaster.

6/10 - Could have done with more character development instead of subtle hints and fragments of exposition. It is implied, but we needed to know more about Momma's experience in the city where she had that bad mental break, which resulted in her killing the boys' father and running back home, where she killed her mother and father...

However, the film is still decent enough for modern psychological horror.

A movie that is not bad, because it holds you, you want to know what’s going on, if it’s real or not, but it’s a forgettable movie, great performances, but forgettable.