The Shrine (2010)
3/10
How Did This Get a 5.6 Rating?
1 March 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Aside from the first 10-15 minutes, there was no plot to speak of, only gore. I was never scared and ceased being startled, or interested, very early on. The fact that the majority of the film has a spoken language other than English - and no translation - only added to my disengagement. Why should I care what is going on if the filmmakers don't bother to tell me? I wonder if they didn't know, either - maybe it was simpler just to have a bunch of dialogue in a foreign language than deal with pesky details like character development and storyline. Wrapping things up in a neat little package in the last 5 minutes doesn't make up for the previous 45 minutes of senselessness.

I don't understand all of the positive ratings. How could anyone think this was a clever, well-done horror movie? I'm at a loss.
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