TV TROPES REPO THE GENETIC OPERA MOVIE

But the film does give you explanations and motivations for why the preacher would do what he did (in order to bring back his family from hell).

TV TROPES REPO THE GENETIC OPERA MOVIE

There was just something off about the pacing and I felt that it could have been trimmed down in order to keep the movie from dragging. I watched this in two different sittings, but I felt like this before I shut the movie off the first time. It just felt longer than it actually was. I also felt that the pacing didn't do the films any favor. They spend a shitload of time talking in riddles, before you're ever given a clear indication of what exactly this preacher wants to achieve with building this house that brings him one step closer, with each room, to hell and to breaking the barrier between the two. Perhaps nonsensical isn't the right word, but the narrative isn't exactly inviting. The problem that I have with the film, however, is that the narrative itself is a bit nonsensical. For the villain of the film to achieve his goal, he needs both Julia and Amanda to die, as they were pledged all those years ago. This leads to a school fire that kills every student, of which Julia and her sister were meant to be a part of, but their father managed to get them out of the town before that happened. He instructs the people in the town to pledge sacrifices to him in order to bring back prosperity to the town.

They say that he brought some of hell's secrets with him. When she's there, she finds out that the town had been brainwashed by this preacher (or something) who had, literally, gone to hell and back. Julia, wanting to know the motives for this senseless act, starts to investigate this and all the clues lead her to this small town, New English.

Julia's family was horribly murdered in one of the rooms that was bought up by this strange man. This guy goes around ripping rooms, where tragedies happened, from their foundation to build their own fucked up, literal, house of horrors. First things first, I will say that the concept is actually fairly unique and interesting. Where can I even begin with this film and what it sets out to do. And, again, that's not to say anything of his actual talent, because I do believe that he is a talented horror filmmaker with a good eye for visuals, look at this film's third act for proof of that. But, other than that, Darren doesn't exactly have the best track record, if we are being honest. Actually, I hear The Devil's Carnival films are pretty good and weird, which is why it shames me to say that I haven't watched them. This brings me to Darren Lynn Bousman, a horror filmmaker that's actually better than the quality of his films would imply. And, honestly, I don't really want her to be in every horror movie, there's such a thing as over-saturation after all and I don't ever wanna get sick of seeing Lin Shaye and her talents. Granted, the fact that she's unable to multiply herself like Michael Keaton in Multiplicity means that this wish of mine is pretty much impossible. Lin Shaye is a horror institution and if it were up to me she would be in every horror movie from this point on.

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