Bria Lou Reviews

I saw the 2022 remake of this film a couple of years ago. So even though I hadn't seen this film, I didn't go into it blind, which would have been really interesting. I liked this film. I'm actually sad that I saw the remake before seeing this one, not least because it made the plot feel really obvious, almost like I would have guessed it right away if I didn't already know. The actors are great. The boys who play Lukas and Elias (Lukas and Elias Schwarz) are amazing. I have no idea how old they were when they made the film but they did a great job, and Susanne Wuest who played their mother was also brilliant. The audience doesn't really get much to go on while watching this film. We don't know anything about these people, we don't get to understand their lives prior to these events and we don't understand who they are until the end of the film. Ordinarily, this would be a bad thing, but I think it works so well here. We're forced into this strange s...

I loved the premise of this film so much when I first heard about it. I didn't know it was a remake, but I thought the idea was a great one, so I was really excited to see it. When twin brothers Lukas (Nicholas Crovetti) and Elias (Cameron Crovetti) visit their mother (Naomi Watts) to find her face covered in bandages, they begin to suspect that the woman they're staying with isn't their mother at all.  For such an interesting premise, the film actually ends up being quite disappointing. The beginning of the film is great. Tension and suspense are created really well. Once you start watching you don't want to stop. It was well-written, and the characters were interesting and believable. The acting was great, especially from the twins who played Lukas and Elias. I'm not sure what they've done before this, but they're both really talented and I hope to see them in more things. It was a bit slow in places, but ultimately the first 2/3 of the film was a captivat...