(This review may contain spoilers).
Horror movies now seem to follow a specific criteria. I watch it and then I reach the end and realise… there was little explanation as to why everything was happening the way it was.
The first scene of this film really drew me in and I did find that the actors played believable characters. However, it did suffer from lack of explanations… and also the ‘let’s leave it open for the sequel that will never be’ syndrome.
There were a few quite intense emotional scenes and I especially thought that the merging of past and present was quite cleverly done, even if it did cause me a bit of confusion at times.
There were one or two jumpy scenes, but I definitely wouldn’t call this film the scariest I’ve seen. There were also quite a few gory scenes, though not anything like as many in some horror films.
I thought that good use of lighting and atmosphere were made and there were quite a few good, recognisable actors. The film was entertaining enough to keep my attention throughout. I was just disappointed that it fell into so many traps.
Ink of Blood 
Like this review I posted a few trailers on my blog of hopefull movies outside the horror arena though I hope will be throughout as cleverly through the plot and visually as well.
I do like horror movies, but I often find the plot development is discarded in favour of employing scare tactics. I’ve often thought of trying my hand at writing a horror movie script, just to see how it would differ from the sort of writing I normally do
That would be an interesting endeavor in the formulation of your creativity woven with the current means of horror narration, do you have any particular new ideas in narrating or plot content that differ from whats available now?
(I don’t know why, but the blog won’t let me reply to your other comment, so I’m replying here).
I think cliches are used a lot in horror films especially and one thing I’ve noticed is that there are very few ghost movies. In most of the horror franchise now, the ghost turns out to be a demon.
I’ve always been struck by something I saw on television when I was very young. It was a murder mystery with a supernatural twist of a woman in white who was the ghost of a woman who’d apparently thrown herself off a cliff and then proceeded to haunt that part of the cliffs. It turned out that it was her descendant (who shared the woman’s appearance) was dressing up as the ghost, but the twist was that there really was a ghost.
I don’t remember much more than that, but I can probably trace my interest in horror and ghosts to that particular film.
If I was writing a horror movie script, whether for myself or to eventually submit, I’d stay away from vampires, zombies, demons and found footage films. It’s my personal opinion that those are over-used. I would personally also have a contained storyline, with plots wrapped up neatly.
And I think I’d also look up other horror movies and the main plot holes people have noticed there. Continuity errors is one thing, but plot holes are often easy to avoid.
That sounds like a movie I would be happy to watch
The woman in white one? I’ve been trying to track it down, but unfortunately, it seems to be impossible. I’m not sure if it was a movie or part of a television series, though for some reason, I think it might have been a detective series that didn’t usually have supernatural elements.
But I could be wrong.