(This review may contain spoilers).
So… this might be one of the only films which freaked me out in its advert alone. There was one particular part that made me waver about going to see it. Except, well, it’s a horror and that’s one of my favourite genres. So I did go to see it.
I’ve now watched this film for… the fourth time, I think. Twice at the cinema and twice on DVD. It’s still a bit creepy, but less so with each subsequent watching.
This isn’t a film with a lot of blood and gore in it and I think that’s what makes it such an effective scary film. Less is sometimes more and when it’s left to the viewers’ imagination, well… there is no limit to the imagination.
The tagline ‘this is based on a true story’ put me off a bit. It tends to do that a lot with horror films. I also felt there were too many characters. When I was first watching this, I kept getting confused with the daughters.
There are quite a few jumpy moments in this film. The camera angles are particularly effective, too. There’s a couple of times when the camera almost pulls back from the house, but it feels like you’re still being drawn in. (I’m not explaining that too well, I know).
The actors are particularly good in this. There are some instances of humour that help to relieve the tension and I felt like the characters were forming real relationships.
In a way, I’d like to see something that just has ghosts in – without demons being involved. Like vampires in paranormal romances, I think that demons are being over-used in horror films and it would be nice to see something that doesn’t stick to the storyline that is basically the same as every ghost-which-is-actually-a-demon storyline.
Ink of Blood 