Apparition

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anthony l @RT93877276 Sep 2, 2022 Points for being original and enough scary moments to keep you entertained. With that being said, I do not think it was a great movie. At times it was slow and drawn out. A lot of room for improvement but a cool idea of using an app to communicate with the dead. Overall ok See more

tim s @TimBSanders Mar 7, 2021 Loosely based on an APP idea currently circulating on YouTube. A geeky software designer develops an app for phones that detects and connects to spirits. After a family pre wedding get together, a group undertake to try the App out and discover some dark family secrets. A relatively good premise but poorly executed. The main problem for this film is that the background set up is so unbelievable it becomes almost comical. A private correction school run by a wealthy maniac and a group of somewhat military / police type guards with an absence of teachers and support staff. This allows for mass murder of the inmates by the unchecked group of maniac friends. Fast forward to the present day pre wedding get together and the app calls out to the now grown up children of the maniacs for spirits to wreak revenge on the family blood line. See more

Jeffrey P @vanillavoodoo1 Aug 23, 2020 Claims to be based on actual events, starts off with potential and stays mostly solid throughout but gets a bit confusing when it starts jumping between different timelines. Fairly standard vengeful spirit horror flick. See more

Feb 26, 2020 A promising idea that sadly fell flat in production. A choppy plot, bad acting, no character background or development, and worst of all: no satisfying end. The app in question is barely mentioned, used more as a convenient Siri-style ghost GPS that occasionally audibly warns you when you're near or making a connection with a ghost (much less useful when it takes the app twenty minutes after ghosts start showing up and killing people to announce "you've made a connection"). The characters themselves are a strange hybrid of paper dolls with voice pull strings, having no real presence but saying quippy line after quippy line (useful to lighten the mood, less useful when there's no actual mood established that might need lightening). Don't even get me started on the constantly arguing, hateful, and downright cruel main "couple" of the movie, one of which proves to be our lead. (gotta love a fiancé who uses your dead mom to mock you) The storytelling is confusing at best, messy at worst and while I saw what they were trying to do with the deliberately unnamed references and vague allusions, too much ambiguity only serves to confuse an audience and that's exactly what happened here. But I've set aside bad acting and confusing plots to like a movie before, which brings me to my main gripe: no satisfaction. We spend the first half of the movie watching young boys be tortured in some "reform" school and go in thinking 'ok yes, revenge, I'm here for it' only to watch them die and jump forward 20 years to find the abusers alive and well and living their best lives. Eventually they die, but each death is quick quick quick, like the director was too squeamish to allow too much death on screen so we just hopped on past it. If we had gotten some sort of meaning in ANY of the deaths the movie might have been salvageable, but as is it serves only as a disappointment that I'm glad I rented instead of bought. See more

Feb 6, 2020 The worst movie I have ever seen in my life. I've never rated a movie until today. I thought it was so bad that I needed to rate it. See more

Feb 5, 2020 The backstory to my opinion was fantastic! . The opening scenes at preston where quite gruesome and really made me not mind the bad acting but after some 10 minutes it was all downhill from there. Bad writing, bad acting, way to predictable storyline.. It had quite a lot of potential but didn't live up to it in my eyes. This could have been a good movie if they got more budget and better writing but oh well.. giving that the beginning was quite good, it get's 1,5 stars from me. See more

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