Eloise is a 2016 American thriller film directed by Robert Legato and written by Christopher Borrelli. The film stars Eliza Dushku, Robert Patrick, Chace Crawford, Brandon T. Jackson, Nicole Forester, and P. J. Byrne. The film was released on February 3, 2017, by Vertical Entertainment.
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I love the idea of spooky, haunted, abandoned places, especially if it’s a hospital or asylum. This does bias me a bit towards movies that feature them, so take this review with a pinch of salt if it’s not your thing.
This very much starts out with a weird call to action – prove your aunt is dead so you can be sole inheritor of your late father’s estate.
But, admittedly, this turns out to be a very family oriented movie, so it works, kind of? It’s not the best reason to get the plot moving, but it’s not the worst either. It just could be better. So to circumvent a whole host of red tape (and a cute girl), lets cut to the chase where we assemble a group of “experts” and go hunting through an abandoned, locked building to find a death certificate shall we?
I do like the way the spooks are portrayed in this movie, it’s not your unseen ephemeral beings playing tricks, it’s also not specters showing themselves for a jump scare. Our group of protagonists and transported into their world and experience it first hand, playing on their individual fears, literally scaring them to death as a means of “therapy”.
The ending seems appropriate since the call to action was a bit suck to begin with. Not a terrible movie in my opinion, in fact pretty decent considering it was free to watch with ads on Vudu.
My Rating: ★★★
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