The movie synopsis sounds super interesting but the movie is wildly different from it. The laziest thing you can do in a film is exposition dump. Still, I kind of digged it in this movie.
I have no complaints on the acting, the actors made it somewhat entertaining along with the cinematography that others have mentioned.
The problem is the damn plot. There's no suspense or scare factor. It's a drama with off screen deaths. It's twist is predictable, but thats not that bad. The story just doesn't make any sort of sense. Its all over the place. It just progressively gets more convoluted and dumb as it goes. They had a basic premise planned, girl gets scared and terrorized by her friends and dies, other girls start dying, girl comes back as murderer. Then they just slapped random crap onto it for whatever reason. Like unnecessary subplots that are just there.
It would have been totally fine to have her just scare them as some sort of ghost, just do easy creepy stuff like leaving roses places for them, leaving messages like the sins on the desk, anything remotely suspenseful. Then it's fine to have them disappear as long as there's a tiny bit of build up, but nope. Let's just have a random dude who happens to worship Satan and for some reason is like "oh this girl who is presumed dead is going to blackmail me? Well better help her kill these other girls then." Until he shoots her in the end, which he could have done at any moment. Side note, he's apparently a chemist as well as the mortician, because he has like paralyzing agents and chloroform for days.
It feels like a movie with every good part cut out of it and all the setup left in. Not to mention the sins aspect is just plopped in there and I'm pretty sure "death by chest gunshot" was not on the punishment list for sloth, but who cares I guess. I'm pretty sure I blinked and one of the girls died and I missed it, because one of them I genuinely don't know what happened to, but she was gone for the rest of the film.
If your looking for a TV quality drama with murder in the background, then you might like it. Story is still hot garbage, but the first 20-30mins are interesting at least before the disappointment starts.
Tingnan pa