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Cast & Crew

Ryan Simpkins

Tess

Annika Marks

Jessica

Karina Logue

Sarah

Amberley Gridley

Lucy

Cliff Chamberlain

Robert

Ryan O'Nan

Father Meyers

Paulina Olszynski

Morgan

Sonny Mallhi

Director

Sonny Mallhi

Screenwriter

Sonny Mallhi

Producer

Guy Danella

Producer

Amanda Treyz

Cinematographer

Andrew Coutts

Film Editing

Matt Diezel

Film Editing

James Curd

Original Music

Lana McAllister

Costume Design

Emily Schweber

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Critic Reviews for Anguish

Audience Reviews for Anguish

• Jun 14, 2016

  I don't think this review will end up being fair towards the film. And I say this because there were parts of the film where I pretty much zoned out because I was literally falling asleep. I'll come out with this right now, I thought the film was really quite boring. But I wasn't falling asleep because of that, I was legitimately really tired as I hadn't slept that well that day. The film has an interesting concept, in that it's not a conventional ghost movie. The ghost in question, trying to possess the body of this teenage girl with mental health issues, isn't evil. She doesn't have any intentions to ruin anyone's life, the ghost, or spirit rather, another teen girl, is using the protagonist as sort of a host to deliver a message to her grieving mother apologizing for her behavior when she was alive. But, that's revealed until much later, and that opens a whole new can of worms with the fact that the host girl's spirit is now stuck with the rest of the other spirits and she does not want to repossess her body. Or something. That's the best way I could explain it. What I do like about this 'possession' aspect of the story is that it focuses on characters and how they want to fix things before being 'at peace' rather than on the supernatural, which is where the film, to me, really faltered. Before the reveal of what's happening, the film pretty much does next to nothing with it. There's some scenes that are cool, like the one with all of the hands pressed up against the mirror as Tess is heading to her home but, other than that, I just found the film to be uninteresting. I think they wanted to be cute and disguise itself as something dealing with mental health issues before they throw it to something supernatural. Let's just say that this isn't They Look Like People. I just feel that they don't really capture what it must be like to raise someone with these issues, despite their attempts to do so. I don't really know what else to say honestly, this just isn't a very interesting movie. It had an interesting concept, at least once they reveal what's really going on, but everything prior to that felt so unnecessary and boring. Like if I felt I wouldn't have missed anything if I had decided shut this film off. And I'd be lying if I said I only thought this as I was watching. I think this now. I'm not saying it was a complete waste of time, because it wasn't. I can think of many ways to spend my time and this wouldn't even bear near the bottom of that list. But I also didn't get absolutely anything from this. And that's really the worst type of movie, the film that, when you're done, you question yourself as to why you didn't watch anything better. Not because it was bad, because of how utterly boring everything was. I didn't think this was a bad movie. It's below average at best, but what hurts it the most is how there's nothing that's holding your interest that motivates you enough to keep watching until the end. I did watch it until the end, cause that's just the way I am, but I wonder why I did after the fact. Eh, with that said, there's a good concept here, but that only comes in much later in the story. Everything prior to that is a whole lot of nothingness. I can't recommend this film, in the slightest. And I saw it on Netflix too, so that should tell you something. There's much better films out there, like 10 Cloverfield Lane, tomorrow's review. It's gonna take far more effort for 10 Cloverfield Lane to be bad than the effort it took to make this a below average flick. Yea, don't watch.
  

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