Directed by:
David Robert MitchellScreenplay:
David Robert MitchellCinematography:
Mike GioulakisComposer:
Rich VreelandCast:
Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Jake Weary, Daniel Zovatto, Lili Sepe, Olivia Luccardi, Linda Boston, Bailey Spry, Claire Sloma, Debbie Williams, Rich Vreeland (more)VOD (4)
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David Robert Mitchell writes and directs this psychological horror. Maika Monroe stars as 19-year-old Jay who, after a sexual encounter with her boyfriend, finds that a mysterious curse has been passed on to her. As she begins to experience terrifying visions and the feeling that she is being followed wherever she goes, she turns to her group of close friends for help. Can they solve the mystery of the deadly curse before its too late? (Icon Home Entertainment)
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An old-school picture. It works on so many aspects (characters, dialogues, music, building-up of suspense and fear) newer horror films often fail to properly handle. How could I not appreciate this flick? A pity the creators haven’t played a bit more with the pursuers’ look, but apart from that, I’m delighted with all the rest. Interestingly, D. R. Mitchell managed to create this wonderful horror film without any jump scare – and with a brilliantly built-up atmosphere! [KVIFF 2014] ()
A sympathetic horror hipster that works quite well as a "coming of age" story about uncertainty, but worse as a genre piece. The attack attempts by ghosts in make-up are stupid and bring the film down. Although Mitchell has a good sense for visuals, the design (Detroit again) works best when it comes to working with tension and space, but it's not particularly inventive (the scene on the wheelchair is explicitly amateurish). I value the effort to update and the overlap, but the result is only slightly above average. ()
The film follows its inspirations quite flamboyantly, but it's also not afraid to go its own way. Therefore, the only thing that really comes to mind is why the adults in the story are glossed over with such vigor and why we don't know more about the gentleman in the photo - in that case, it would have been a decent crawl at the end and not just a flowing breast-stroke. ()
Personally, the movie "You Can't Escape" didn't really appeal to me that much, but I still think it's at least an average good horror. It could benefit from being a bit shorter, as not that much significant happens in those hundred minutes that couldn't be cut by twenty minutes. Additionally, I believe that in such case, the atmosphere could be even more oppressive. ()
The Christian fundamentalist right in the USA once again came up with a plan on how to strike a deadly blow to sin, and they realized that they should use more modern methods when addressing the young generation. So they paid David Mitchell and he crafted a script on how one's first sexual experience can unleash the worst demons and destroy those who wanted to have some fun and sin a little bit. It's definitely not clever or impressive to me. There are much better films in this genre, so why waste time with this? Overall impression: 25%. ()
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