Though filled with potential, From Black is a horror letdown, both as a tale of grief and as a campy creature feature. aurora_amidon's review:
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. There’s a reason horror creators and fans are so obsessed with these themes: Grief and trauma can often feel much more menacing, more grotesque than any oozing monster., follows Cora , a recovering drug addict grieving the sudden disappearance of her small child, Noah . Things start to look up for Cora when the leader of her grief counseling group, Abel , tells her that he knows a way to bring Noah back.
Spoiler alert: The recitation of cryptic passages from dusty old books doesn’t tend to yield the best results in horror movies, andis no exception to this tried-and-true rule. Indeed, what starts as an opportunity for Cora to see her son again quickly deteriorates into a nightmare-fueled experience chock-full of jump scares and bone-vomit .
Now, you’re probably thinking, “Okay, this movie has jump scares and bone-vomit in it. So it’s probably at least entertaining, right?” Not exactly. From its opening moments,takes itself far too seriously, from its muddy gray color palette to its somber—and nearly-inaudible—line-reads, from its overwrought performances to the grating score that infiltrates any scene that so much as hints at suspense.
It’s a shame, then, that her character doesn’t amount to much more than a stoic cop, just as it’s a shame thatdoesn’t reach its potential of being a rockin’ good campy supernatural thriller, or a meditation on grief that brings something new to the endlessly proliferating grief-horror subgenre. One can only hope that next time, Marchese will realize his strengths and lean mercilessly into them.
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