No mistaking this: definitely a Guillermo del Toro presence
throughout this film. Quirky but very adept, believable, and relatable cast -
our heroine performs marvelously. Some of the scares/deaths are insanely
creative and visually stunning. We falter, however, as the movie goes on, as
the director and writers try and force some Vietnam/Nixon story into the scary
stories happening around our team of good guys. Perhaps the director is trying
to make a point that the stories of the soldiers Nixon sent over to Nam were
already written in death before they were drafted and deployed? I don’t know,
not my place to speculate. The movie was entertaining enough, despite a VERY
lackluster and seemingly thrown together ending. Worth a watch for sheer spookiness
and imaginativeness.
6/10
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