Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Run Time: 1 Hour and 52 Minutes
Official MPAA Rating (According to IMDB.com):
G / General Audiences
PG / Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned
R / Restricted
X
Not Rated
Trailer
Notable Cast
Julianne Moore ... Cara Harding
Jonathan Rhys Meyers ... David / Adam / Wesley
Jeffrey DeMunn ... Dr. Harding
Frances Conroy ... Mrs. Bernburg
Nate Corddry ... Stephen Harding
Brooklynn Proulx ... Sammy
Joyce Feurring ... Granny Holler Witch
Jonathan Rhys Meyers ... David / Adam / Wesley
Jeffrey DeMunn ... Dr. Harding
Frances Conroy ... Mrs. Bernburg
Nate Corddry ... Stephen Harding
Brooklynn Proulx ... Sammy
Joyce Feurring ... Granny Holler Witch
Plot
Psychiatry is a strange field of science. Doctor Harding calls up his daughter, who is also a doctor in the field, and he tells her that he knows someone with a strange case: multiple personalities. How can she treat/cure this patient? When it turns out that the personalities are darker than she originally thought, things start going wrong. Can she and her family survive? Is there a way to handle this case? Can she have enough faith to deal with this, especially after her husband had recently passed? What will happen?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute
waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of
something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but
could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly
amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all
around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
2.5/5 - *SPOILERS*
I honestly did not like this movie. It was too faith-based for my taste. The religion just dripped from the screen like "The Ring"'s character dripped water out of the screen... It made me sick watching it but I was told it was a good movie so I continued watching it.
The concept (cursing a lying preacher to shelter lost souls within his own body after his own was stolen from him) was interesting but also very unrealistic. Let's throw in voodoo to explain it! Seriously... But accumulating souls/personalities is a weird proposition but it is explained with the mountain witch curse. How this works with other people with multiple personalities? It doesn't but it makes a movie plot line, however bad it is.
The exorcist type thrashing as he changes between souls/personalities was weird and messed up. It could have been explained more as to why he does that, but that was not explained. We just partially witness it a few times and go along with it. Honestly, I would have like a half-ass explanation as to WHY he thrashes like that as he switches. Is it just because they are individualistic trapped souls inside of the shelter/body, and not just multiple personalities that one human has?
Sammy coming back with David's song was almost expected (she was being absorbed, duh!) but does she have all of the 5 other souls that he had within her? We don't hear about it because the movie ends abruptly, though even her mom goes "wait... I thought I saved you but.....".
In my personal opinion, I would not recommend this movie nor would I watch it again. It just isn't worth it. True, Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers did good work in this movie but that's what keeps the rating of this movie above a 2/5. If they weren't as good in acting or if they had other actors, the enjoyment of this movie probably would have spiked downwards as this was a hair's breadth away from being considered a "B movie".
Anyways, this movie review is done and thank goodness for that. I was getting sick to my stomach seeing it on the "To Review" list...
Thanks for reading! More reviews are to come eventually, so keep an eye out for them.
~ Gracie Mae DeLunac
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