This is a very enjoyable entertaining and enthralling suspense film to see. Definitely not a horror film but it does have its horror moments for sure. Starts out as a horror thriller but as others have commented before me, by the end we have an undoubted supernatural drama thriller.
Julianne Moore and Jonothon Rhys Meyers are excellent in this movie and deliver the story very well indeed. You wont be bored with this movie and if you want compare it with The Ring and Identity, that is upto you. this had the same impact on me as 'Orphan' and had me jumping out of my seat at the scary bits! Sometimes suspense is created in the movie without it being explained later and perhaps the director was exploiting our curiosity to overload and then leaving us a touch disappointed. I am not at all disappointed with the movie, I loved it and I am still trying to work out 'who' Mr Jonothon was really playing.
Those affected by the 'cough' clearly receive their'fate' during the movie. We don't hear of the preacher until quite late in the movie and the same can be said about the 'Granny'.
If there is a message in the movie, I guess it is that - don't lose faith or there will be consequences. I was expecting a connection with the execution of Kilkirk with Bernberg but I did not see it in the movie. At the times Caroline (Moore) was a paranoiac doctor psychologist but thats not her fault.
Shelter, as I now understand it in this movie, is interpreting protection for those who do not keep the faith. It is not however a religious film in any way, we have to think a little bit why the victims who became victims during the movie and who were reported as victims , why it should happen to them.
So who was the real killer?
Julianne Moore and Jonothon Rhys Meyers are excellent in this movie and deliver the story very well indeed. You wont be bored with this movie and if you want compare it with The Ring and Identity, that is upto you. this had the same impact on me as 'Orphan' and had me jumping out of my seat at the scary bits! Sometimes suspense is created in the movie without it being explained later and perhaps the director was exploiting our curiosity to overload and then leaving us a touch disappointed. I am not at all disappointed with the movie, I loved it and I am still trying to work out 'who' Mr Jonothon was really playing.
Those affected by the 'cough' clearly receive their'fate' during the movie. We don't hear of the preacher until quite late in the movie and the same can be said about the 'Granny'.
If there is a message in the movie, I guess it is that - don't lose faith or there will be consequences. I was expecting a connection with the execution of Kilkirk with Bernberg but I did not see it in the movie. At the times Caroline (Moore) was a paranoiac doctor psychologist but thats not her fault.
Shelter, as I now understand it in this movie, is interpreting protection for those who do not keep the faith. It is not however a religious film in any way, we have to think a little bit why the victims who became victims during the movie and who were reported as victims , why it should happen to them.
So who was the real killer?