The movie starts with a nightmare where we find out about the car accident Kat´s parents had and that for some reason she is marking days in her calendar hoping for february the 22th to come as she expects them to come for some reason .
If we can say something about this movie is that it is very ambiguous and that is something that I love in horror and we don´t get to see it often unfortunately .
The movie tells us the story of three girls : Kat played by Kiernan Shipka (which I thought was great)
Rose played by Lucy Boynton and Joan played by Emma Roberts who is the most known actress in this indie movie .
Though It isn´t much clear and I´m talking about my own theories ; when Rose and Kat get to spend the holiday In this boarding school as their parents aren´t coming over yet I couldn´t help but think of the shining because what you get to hear and see for pretty much the first hour of this movie is snow and the sound of blowing wind . Empty dark corridors , creepy talk about devil posession and ambiguity define the first hour of this movie which is very slow but brilliantly creepy in my opinion.
The movie divides into three acts for one of the girls and the ones Involving Kat are the most unsetelling and creepy I´ve seen in a while in fact It reminded me a lot from Ty West´s THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL which I think is an underrated masterpiece in mother horror after we left the torture porn and the supernatural-posession genre .
Kat starts to get this phonecalls from suposedly her parents but ...how can that be ? her parents are dead right ? well We don´t know exactly who she´s talking to but there seems to be some sort of creature or demon which looked like a got or a giant black bunny that reminded me of the one in Donnie Darko for some reason . Kat is brilliantly creepy in this in fact , there´s a scene where she tells Rose that her parents are dead too which we don´t know for certain at the time but we do find out later .
Then there´s the character of Joan who we first get to know in a bus station freezing and something that this movie made me feel is cold because of its awesome atmosphere that was also helped by its soundtrack ; it´s amazing to see horror movies this days that are not just about jmpscares and gore .
Later on we´ll discover that Joan is a runaway mental patient who took some doctor´s ID and then went with this couple who then turn out to be Rose´s parents who are brutally murdered by Joan and oh boy the movie became much darker in the last half hour .
I wonder what the connection between Joan and Kat is ; is it this creature or spectre ? are they sisters? we don´t know for sure but they proceed to commit the crimes almost simultaneously and man! this killings were brutal ! we don´t see them at first because the editing in the movie is kinda confusing but the one where Kat butchered Rose was really creepy and she looked like Jack Torrance in the Overlook which I thought was a great movie .
There´s also a few scenes in the movie In which we see Kat coming down to the boiler room and after she killed Rose and two members of the faculty staff she stared at the three heads when found by the police .
After that she is taken to the hospital and whe get a quick exsorcism where a priest supossedly takes away the spectre that was possessing Kat which I thought was sort of cheesy but at least it sort of told us what was going on .
I have to say this movie is not for everyone because of how slooow it is ! especially in its first hour but please give it a try and you will enjoy an awesome last half hour with one of the creepiest scenes I´ve seen in a while .
So as they say in Land of the creeps : KEEP HORROR ALIVE !
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