Anomaly

Movie wasn't scary and acting was terrible based on a true story Try and prove that

I watched this movie because it was on Amazon prime and the poster looked interesting. Do not judge a book by its cover, as the saying goes. The story is a basic ghost movie. The script doesn't make sense sometimes (I can't really explain without spoiling, but there are several scenes where the characters do or say things no real person would do or say in the situation). The only reason I give this movie a 2 and not a one isn't the movie poster (real streaming bait, this kind of things should be illegal), but the fact this movie might become good entertainment if you watch it with some friends drinking and laughing at it (oh, every scene with the priest...). Because, it's not only badly scripted, but ridiculously acted too.

I can't really recommend this even as "so bad it's good" kind of movie, however, as some slow scenes are painful to sit through. Don't watch.

Terrible. Especially the young actors (Hunter Alexes Parker and Mason Parker) and the dad (Matt Holbrook). Lara Jean Mummert did pretty well, but she is too much of a stage and theater actor to work well on screen.

In the actors' defense, the writing can take a lot of the blame for the disjointed and unnatural dialogue. No one says things like, "looking...right at myself." Or, "...without knowing the background of it." I know Batista was born in the DR but no one proofread the work at all to remove any rigidity or colloquial missteps.

There's really no foothold to gain in order to redeem this film; none other than watching it for a laugh. Bad cinematography, bad editing, bad acting (the male character above all others) and what's more important, bad storytelling. The scenes with the priest were the ones where we laughed more hysterically: the one where the guy budges around as if he was annoyed by a mosquito rather than a demon takes the cake. (MEMO: bring insecticide rather than holy water next time.) Oh, don't forget to take a look at the fake 10 star reviews here on IMDb for an additional laugh.

The moment I saw Charles what's his name in this I knew it was going to be terrible. The last movie I saw him in, he played a psychologist that took his patients to a cabin for the weekend and someone was killing them off. That movie was bad. This is worse.

Let's start with the production. I had to check several times to make sure this wasn't a dub. The dialogue never seemed to match up with the lip movement. It also had the sound quality of those dubbed European shows on Netflix. But, alas, it was made in America and the actors were American.

Next is the actors. I guess acting school/lessons is a thing of the past. No one had any presence at all. The girl telling the story was so droll I wished I was deaf. The father spoke like he didn't know how to construct sentences. And the mother just whined the whole time. There was also a son and daughter, but like I said, had no presence and I dismissed them easily. Then there's the pastor. Just why? He was so over the top yet underwhelming at the same time I had to rewind a few times.

The ending was not a shocker. I figured it out in the first 5 minutes of the film. If you need to put someone to sleep, this film will do it for you.