Eli

Eli is one of those horror movies that starts promisingly and ends as a bad joke. Or rather, its not that it doesn’t make a cool point, but a lot of the connections between the characters and details in their behavior are shaky, as if twenty important minutes had been left out of the film. Not to mention basic mistakes in continuity like the intact hairstyle of the boy who’d had part of his hair shaved off the day before so that they could drill into his skull. The long ghost-story part of the film is properly chilling, but we have seen it all a hundred times before when at least the characters weren’t talking through the insulating glass between the interior and exterior of a thoroughly sealed building. This film is even more lobotomised than its protagonist after the second surgery. (14.03.2023)

Quite inventive for a “ghost-type” of horror movie, which was a pleasant surprise. I’m not giving these four stars for no reason; I was very surprised and enjoyed myself a lot. (18.12.2019)

After Sinister 2 and Citadel, Ciarán Foy serves up his most interesting work. After Brightburn and Prodigy, we have another children's horror film that works thanks to a novel idea. The protagonist is allergic to the world and undergoes experimental treatment in a remote house that is not as safe as it first appears. The director builds the atmosphere nicely and serves up a fair amount of scares and imaginative jump-scares that work better than in this year's Annabelle 3 or La Llorona. However, what lifts the film to above average is the solid finale, which comes with a surprising twist. For fans of ghost stories, a clear recommendation. 70% (19.10.2019)