Again a ghost story, set in Spain. I don't know what to write about it. The movie begins interesting, but halfway through a priest explains all, so the last part is just watching the things the priest said.
Rating : 6
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Added to the standard fantastic film inventory: traumatized Spanish woman in a haunted mansion
Links: AFFF / imdb
What's up with these Spanish films with a religious setting, moody anamorphic dark scenes in a haunted convent / nursery, dead children and ultra slow tracking shots? The one distinctive element in The Beckoning is the usage of the authentic historic newsreels (sort of like the Dutch "Polygoon journaal"), for the rest it delivers the obvious series of events and conclusion.
Rating: 6
Links: AFFF / imdb
What's up with these Spanish films with a religious setting, moody anamorphic dark scenes in a haunted convent / nursery, dead children and ultra slow tracking shots? The one distinctive element in The Beckoning is the usage of the authentic historic newsreels (sort of like the Dutch "Polygoon journaal"), for the rest it delivers the obvious series of events and conclusion.
Rating: 6
Mum goes crazy in old landhouse because daughter died and... oh please, make it STOP
Links: AFFF / imdb
Run of the mill. Very, very run of the mill. But the mill is old. You've seen a thousand mills like this, and every single one of them was in better shape. Grinded the corn better. Threw a more beautiful silhouette against the darkening summersky.
Again: ghosts shown Too Soon, people! And then they appear again and again and again and again... now this might work in a lyric or two but it becomes sooooo tiiiireeessooommmeeeee. Yes, cue squeaking floor. Sigh. How -dare- they say it holds up to "The Orphanage"
Rating: 5
Links: AFFF / imdb
Run of the mill. Very, very run of the mill. But the mill is old. You've seen a thousand mills like this, and every single one of them was in better shape. Grinded the corn better. Threw a more beautiful silhouette against the darkening summersky.
Again: ghosts shown Too Soon, people! And then they appear again and again and again and again... now this might work in a lyric or two but it becomes sooooo tiiiireeessooommmeeeee. Yes, cue squeaking floor. Sigh. How -dare- they say it holds up to "The Orphanage"
Rating: 5
description: Ghosts, family with 1-2 children, 3 young girls, martyr, house haunted, whore to be a saint, bishop, secrets, no-do documentaires, woman sleeping 60 years, 3 forms of miracle busting.
(Geoffrey): (rating 6)
Well, this is another ghost movie....again in a f_cked up house with a f_cked up history. Seeing so many of these types of movies in a short notice, they become a drag. Here we have a big house, used for praying in the past. Some miracles happened in this house, but not with a good ending, thanks to the bisshop. The miracles are put on film and people involved were killed, except one woman who is in a coma/sleep for 50-60 years. Now a family with a 4 month old baby are going to live in that house. Mother sees ghosts, father thinks mother is going nuts (how original).
The old woman who slept for such a long time wakes all of a sudden and can stand immediately. No problems with muscles not used for 50-60 years, no issues with her brain. Not really convincing. But ok, she plays her part as she and her husband made documentaires, with a special camera who actually could record miracles (ghostly beings etc) at that time. Now her husband is gone and it is the bisshops fold. There is some kind of priest (martyr) getting involved, showing the dark secrets the house holds with the no-do documentaires made so long ago.
Actually I wanted to give this movie a lower score, since I had it with ghost haunted house movies, but I gave it a 6 anyway, since the acting was not that bad and I like movies with some criticism to people in charge of religion. Cults/dark religion or religion not pictures as pure as they want to gives it a plus. Hopefully no American remake will be made of this movie.
(Geoffrey): (rating 6)
Well, this is another ghost movie....again in a f_cked up house with a f_cked up history. Seeing so many of these types of movies in a short notice, they become a drag. Here we have a big house, used for praying in the past. Some miracles happened in this house, but not with a good ending, thanks to the bisshop. The miracles are put on film and people involved were killed, except one woman who is in a coma/sleep for 50-60 years. Now a family with a 4 month old baby are going to live in that house. Mother sees ghosts, father thinks mother is going nuts (how original).
The old woman who slept for such a long time wakes all of a sudden and can stand immediately. No problems with muscles not used for 50-60 years, no issues with her brain. Not really convincing. But ok, she plays her part as she and her husband made documentaires, with a special camera who actually could record miracles (ghostly beings etc) at that time. Now her husband is gone and it is the bisshops fold. There is some kind of priest (martyr) getting involved, showing the dark secrets the house holds with the no-do documentaires made so long ago.
Actually I wanted to give this movie a lower score, since I had it with ghost haunted house movies, but I gave it a 6 anyway, since the acting was not that bad and I like movies with some criticism to people in charge of religion. Cults/dark religion or religion not pictures as pure as they want to gives it a plus. Hopefully no American remake will be made of this movie.