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Top Movies - Visions Movie Review (Spoiler Free) - Movie Reviews Sites
article2016 Reviews,Blumhouse newest horror release offers a clever twist in an otherwise mediocre movie that stars a bunch of comedy actors.
Genre: Horror, ThrillerDirector: Kevin Greutert
Cast: Isla Fisher, Anson Mount, Gillian Jacobs, Joanna Cassidy,
Jim Parsons, John De Lancie, Bryce Johnson, Eva Longoria
& Annie Tedesco.
Jim Parsons, John De Lancie, Bryce Johnson, Eva Longoria
& Annie Tedesco.
Run Time: 82 min.
US Release: 19 January 2016 (Netflix Release)
UK Release: Unknown
German Release: 21 April 2016
Kevin Greutert (Saw: The Final Chapter, Jessabelle) delivers an intriguing but ultimately disappointing paranormal-horror flick. Visions was actually first released in Turkey last year and was a direct-to-Netflix release for mid-January in the US, but will not have a cinematic released in Germany, until late April. To say the truth, I am not surprised that it wasn’t released in cinemas in the States, which makes me wonder why it obtained a place in theatres in Germany. Having said that, L.D. Goffigan and Lucas Sussman’s script does have quite the potential.
A year after her car accident, Eveleigh Maddox (Fisher) and her husband David (Mount) move to a vineyard to start a new life. Eve, who suffered from PTSD after the accident, stops taking her medication when she learns of her pregnancy. One of the area's infamous wine distributors Helena (Cassidy), accepts an invitation to their welcome-party and is later found by Eve standing in the bedroom and muttering in a strange trance. That same night, Eve obtains her first nightmarish vision, but it is brushed of as a returning PTSD symptom by her husband and doctor (Parsons), her new friend Sadie (Jacobs) though, believes it could be something more sinister.
What really disappointed me was the fact that Visions had a great idea to start with but wasted it’s grand potential impressively, with bad performances and poor deliveries. I really liked the unusual and fresh approach to the haunted house genre that gave the movie a sense of novelty, but that great approach was overshadowed by the clichéd development of male characters, in this case Eveleigh’s husband and Dr. Mathison, who don’t believe her visions are true and simply shrug them off as PTSD symptoms.
Still, the director makes a good attempt at thinning down the amount of jump scares used in the movie; only utilizing them when there is a logic reason and therefore giving this horror-thriller a fantastic build-up of tension, which ends with a surprising twist in the final act. Again, the steady development of tension is ruined by the fact that about 80 percent of the movie is a set-up for that the clever turn of events in the end, which also includes one of the laziest reveals. But what really hurt the story, was the incredibly badly and messy written dialogues.
The characters are probably the worst part of this film; they are poorly developed and incredibly boring, even though the cast consists of a variety of respected television actors. The problem is that that these actors and actresses are better known for their comedic performances and had never been utilised in horror pictures. The issue is increased, as giving them the minimum amount of screen time wastes the entire cast, apart from Fisher.
Isla Fisher played the lead character of Eve Maddox, a young fashion designer, who after a car accident moved with her husband to the county as the new owners of a vineyard. Fisher, who until now played minor side roles, gave a very pale and monotonic performance and was completely miscast in my opinion. Her line delivery was awful and I did not believe a word that came out of her mouth. Her persona suffers from horrific and scary visions, which are supposed to create some sympathy for her, but due to her irritating performance and carelessness, the viewer is left simply not caring about her fate.
Eve’s husband David, played by Anson Mount, was a waste of a character and only made appearances after Eve experienced a paranormal vision. The only reason for this character to exist was to bind the protagonist to the house and confront her on everything she is experiencing. It is clear that his wife is suffering terribly, when she is in the house and I found it irresponsible and dislikeable from him to make her stay.
I only know Gillian Jacobs from the sitcom Community, but even there she was my least favourite of the cast. Jacobs depicted Sadie, Eveleigh’s new friend from the pregnancy yoga class and an incredibly weird person. She gives off a serious crazy vibe from the beginning that made me question Eve’s sense of human understanding. Jacobs gave the worst performance in this horror film and her constant babble about the “mommy-sense” made me wish I could cut off my ears. She was the weakest link of the cast!
Eva Longoria and Jim Parsons were completely wasted. Longoria played Eve’s best friend Eileen and was only used in two scenes, which begs the question why she was cast at all, if an Extra could have sufficed. Parsons had a little more screen time and depicted Eveleigh’s gynaecologist, but he was miscast just like Fisher. I could not see past his Sheldon Cooper persona, which hurt his credibility as a Doctor and made the scenes with him involuntarily funny.
The cinematography in Visions was generally all right, and made use of colder colour schemes, such as pale blues when the lead character suffers from horrific visions. Still, the abrupt cuts that occur throughout this horror’s length turned me off and took me completely out of the movie. I also disliked the extreme visual vibrations, at the beginning of the movie that were supposed to display the state of shock Eveleigh is suffering from. Other than that, I thought that Visions was a nice looking movie with good use of special effects.
Joachim Horsley composed a well-structured orchestral soundtrack for this movie. The slow but intense melody of woodwind instruments was a major contributor to the build-up of tension and a change from the typical loud and abrupt noises that are used in today’s horror flicks. Apart from Horsey’s orchestral sounds, some scenes also included parts of popular pop songs.
Verdict: Visions had a promising idea that offered a fresh coat of paint to the cliché filled horror genre but the premise was wasted, by a bad script that set most of the films runtime as a set-up for the twist at the end. If the writers had focused on a more compelling story, the turn of events would have had a bigger impact. The actors are completely miscasts and gave forgettable renditions, but I also need to stress that the characters were poorly written, with most of them making only two-to-three minute appearances. As a fan of the horror genre, Vision truly disappointed me and I will therefore give it a score of 3 out of 10.
Have you seen Visions yet? If you did, leave a comment below to let me know what you thought of it. I finally managed to catch a screening of London Has Fallen and will upload my review for it tomorrow.
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