Haunted Mansion (2015)

Another disappointment

The movie follows the story of a bullied high school girl who can speak to ghosts, an ability that brought distress to her life. It revolves around a derivative concept that could have worked if the other elements of the movies were decent. Alas, twenty minutes into the movie and not a single character were established leading one to not care about what would happen to the characters.

The poor writing and direction stretches towards the end of the movie with only the perfect ambient setting keeping everything together. The characters were unironically bland, idiotic, and, uninteresting to the point that their actions and lines stopped adding up in the most basic level of common sense as if the writers have no idea how human emotions work, it was a nightmare seeing those characters unravel the story like brainless puppets especially since no character developments were established.

Everything led to the revelation of the antagonist and the history of the haunted mansion which proved to be an utter disappointment. There were so many ways to enable a much more compelling and daunting story, yet they chose to go on the horror cliches and even made it much worse.

The only reason why I gave this movie 2 stars is because of the setting and atmosphere. Everything else is a disappointing disaster. I can't believe this was even nominated for awards, no wonder why Filipino horror movies suffer from a very low standard.