![]() They kept it classic, clean and believable using mostly the actors, ambiance/mood building and some blood thrown in for good measure. Not gory or high tech (thank goodness! I know my CGI rant gets old). It is a fairly slow burn, but kept a steady pace with enough happening to hold my attention. However, it's not a remake that I am aware of so it does have originality in that aspect. ![]() However, that in itself is nearly an impossible feat now days. The writer/director is good, I am not familiar with him but would be open to seeing more from him. The acting is good, the score is good and not overbearing. The overall quality is really decent, I was pleasantly surprised. I didn't realize that the director was also the writer until I got on here to post a review and read the other review. Without posting any spoilers I can't go into detail, it is predictable even with the extra twist at the end. As long as you don't mind that it's similar to other movies like it, kind of a mash-up of several different horror sub-genres. My rating of "Seance" lands on a generous three out of ten stars. It just simply isn't worth the time, money or effort. If you enjoy horror movies, do yourself a favor and give "Seance" a wide berth. Well, not unless you count sitting through a rigid and wooden storyline as being scary. There was absolutely nothing scary about the movie. For a horror movie then writer and director Simon Barrett was off the mark by miles. Well, that was not entirely true, because the acting performances put on by the cast in "Seance" was actually quite good, especially when taking into consideration that the actresses and actors just about had virtually nothing to work with in terms of a proper storyline, interesting characters or anything else for that matter. So it was quite a struggle and an ordeal to sit through this movie and find even just anything remotely enjoyable. The storyline, aside from being generic, was incredibly slow paced and uneventful. So yeah, "Seance" wasn't all that and a bag of potato chips. Everything that transpired within the storyline of "Seance" is stuff that has been done and seen in countless other horror movies, and quite often done and seen better in other movies. Man, talk about a trivial and generic horror movie. And I gave up on it shortly after crossing the halfway mark. But still, giving writer and director Simon Barrett the benefit of the doubt, since it was a movie that I hadn't already seen, I sat down to watch "Seance". Why? Well, the premise of it and its synopsis just made it seem like it was going to be another one of those a dime a dozen standard young adult horror movies. Sure, when I sat down to watch the 2021 horror mystery movie "Seance", I can't claim that I was harboring much of any high hopes or expectations to the movie.
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