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Release Date:

January 17, 2014

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “After a mysterious, lost night on their honeymoon, a newlywed couple finds themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy. While recording everything for posterity, the husband begins to notice odd behavior in his wife that they initially write off to nerves, but, as the months pass, it becomes evident that the dark changes to her body and mind have a much more sinister origin.”

Trailer: C- / C / B+

Review: (#1 & #2) The first and second designs aren’t too far separated from one another. The second gives us a more up close and personal view of the first and adds some details that may be more interesting to curious filmgoers. However, neither are particularly inventive or memorable.

(#3) The third design, however, is all sorts of wonderful. First, it’s a foreign design which gives it the opportunity to be more visually striking. After all, how much hell would be raised if a poster with an inverted crucifix of blood with a pregnant woman splayed out on it arise in the United States? A lot. Yet, that’s what makes it interesting: originality vs. controversy. It’s not necessarily offensive, unless you take this type of thing too seriously, yet through its creativity the audience has an uneasy idea of the film’s premise even if the trailer suggests something as bland and banal as the American posters intimate.

Trailer: C-

Review: I love The Blair Witch Project, but this found-footage subgenre of horror has gotten way out of hand. At least in Blair Witch, the camera positioning and observational perspectives were believable. This trailer suggests a phantom camera is following the action. Part of the compulsion of voyeurism that found-footage provides is believing that these are events that are taking place. Once you remove that suspension of disbelief, it becomes a needless encouragement of nausea. That the film is little more than a modern, unoriginal demonic-possession storyline abusing a Rosemary’s Baby background doesn’t add to the mystique.

Oscar Prospects:

None.

Revisions:

(January 12, 2014) Original

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