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So me and my friend Emma decided to take a trip to the cinema on a typical Monday night... at 10pm. Considering the circumstances-it had to (of course) be a horror film. I had never seen one in a cinema so I thought it would be...well, interesting. It was.
The film is about a pair of siblings visiting their grandparents. Everything is fine until the second or third night at their grandparent's house. They were never allowed to leave their rooms after 21:30 as it was strictly considered their bed time. One night they innocently decided to go to the kitchen to grab something and noticed their grandma's strange behaviour. She was throwing up repeatedly and running around the house naked. One day they video called their mum who realised the kids weren't with their grandparents but a pair of total strangers. The actual nan and grandad were killed by those people as they wanted to live their lives. In their house. Surrounded by their family. I guess you can see where the script writers were going with this...
While watching the film I have spotted a lot of references to different bed time stories etc. For example the boy kept calling the nan 'ware wolf'... We all know that the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood pretended to be her nan. Coincidence? Interesting one. Another reference would be when the nan asks the girl to go inside the oven and clean it... Hansel and Gretel ?
The film makes you feel so many emotions. There is fear when the kids are being chased by a woman with a knife, there is an element of comedy when the boy tried to rap and thinks he is good at it and then there is the anticipation of 'what is going to happen now?'...
When it comes to make-up, hair and costumes... One character really stands out in this film. It will have to be the nan. When she was in a bad mood, having one of her ''attacks'', her hair would be messy, clothes would be dirty, she'd wear no make up. When the kids tried to interview her for their documentary, she put her hair up, did her make up, wore nice, quite expensive looking clothes. Her whole look kept changing every time we would see a different side to her. Also, I appreciate how the directors changed intentions/ type of the impact of her actions. For instance, when she made cookies- it seemed like a lovely thing to do for your grandchildren. However, a few scenes later we see her sat down at the table acting crazy and eating one cookie after the other. It is almost like the directors wanted us to see that the 'good' was indeed bad. And it all depends on the light we see things in, because not everything is what it seems.
The hidden message behind this film is incredible and not something that you would expect to learn from a horror film. At the end we see the mother talking to the kids and telling them not to hold onto anger. I feel like this film has enough power to make that message come across to a lot of people and have a big impact on their impressions of the film. Mine was definitely positive.
