Lifeless snooze fest Cast: Nathalie Emmanuel, Thomas Doherty, Sean Pertwee, Hugh Skinner, Carol Ann Crawford, Alana Boden, Stephanie Corne...
Lifeless snooze fest
Cast: Nathalie Emmanuel, Thomas Doherty,
Sean Pertwee, Hugh Skinner, Carol Ann Crawford, Alana Boden, Stephanie
Corneliussen, Courtney Taylor, Virág Bárány
Rating: 1/5
Long gone are the days of films like ‘The Shining’ and ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ that scared the daylights out of you. Horror fans have to be content with films like ‘The Invitation’ which are dull and boring, barely sending a shiver up your spine.
The story is simple enough. After her
mother’s death, Evie is approached by an unknown cousin who invites her to a
lavish wedding in the English countryside. Soon, she realizes a gothic
conspiracy is afoot and must fight for survival as she uncovers twisted secrets
in her family’s history.
A film that tries to be a satire on the
elite class, has been done to death a million times before much more
effectively. It features some of the most banal expositions and jump scares
ever in a horror film that even an infant wouldn’t find vaguely scary. Most of
the scenes were shot in such dim locations, that the strain on the eyes trying
to decipher what’s going on in the dark just isn’t worth the effort.
Jessica M. Thompson’s second directorial is
nothing like her first; it’s bland and lacks any sort of substance and it’s a
good thing that Sam Raimi couldn’t produce it. Both Blair Butler’s screenplay and
Autumn Eakin’s cinematography are below average. The performances are nothing to
speak of with Nathalie Emmanuel desperately trying to enliven to this lifeless film and failing miserably.
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