The Manor (2021)
Genre: Horror
Duration: 81 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Axelle Carolyn
Stars: Barbara Hershey, Bruce Davison and Stacey Travis
IMDb score:
5,3 (8.569)
Releasedate: 8 October 2021
The Manor plot
"Enjoy your stay."
While recovering from a stroke, Judith Albright moves into an old nursing home. During her stay, she believes that a supernatural entity is plaguing the inhabitants. Hoping to leave the home alive, she tries to convince those around her that she doesn't belong here.
Actors and actresses
Judith
Josh
Roland
Trish
Ruth
Liesel
Annette
Barbara
Elizabeth
Ms. Benson
Reviews & comments
UmbraVitae
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- 4376 messages
- 4084 votes
I will skip the 6th in the 'Welcome to the Blumhouse' series, Black as Night for the time being because I read that it has something to do with vampires. This 'The Manor' was still quite passable, in terms of atmosphere and the ending was also quite çava. Not a high flyer, certainly not, but the entire series tends towards mediocrity, with sometimes small outliers at the top and bottom.
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Collins
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- 7355 messages
- 4353 votes
After the disappointing Bingo Hell, another film from the Welcome to the Blumhouse series was launched. Once again it wasn't easy. As is often the case with films in this series, the script doesn't sound bad at all. A new resident of a retirement home discovers that it is haunted. OK. Not original, but I just love haunted house horror.
What makes the plot extra attractive is that the new resident (a beautifully aged Barbara Hershey) is saddled with a touch of dementia and delusions of persecution. The emphasis on her fragile mental condition is a nice touch. After all, the strange events that she experiences as threatening may only take place in her head. Attempts to make her findings known to the world around her are invariably met with the (prejudice) judgment that she is mentally unwell. A lonely battle for her dignity and her life follows.
In theory, that storyline sounds okay. In practice it doesn't work well. That is not directly due to Hershey. She is actually a positive element in the film. However, a film needs more than good acting from the main character. The film lacks the rest. The other characters are not interesting. The story is sloppy. The camera fails to make the setting an ominous factor. The dark events do not provide a solid dark foundation. The film is an uninspired mess.
The bad thing about The Manor is that the film never manages to create any kind of tension. The threat presents itself without thorough atmospheric staging and looks a bit sad. Not much excitement on that front. Sometimes a final can make up for something. That doesn't work here either, because the finale turns out to be a ridiculous spectacle.
And so The Manor is a pretty nonsensical film without tension, but with a great leading role.
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
Horror thriller with an interesting set-up, only to end up in a completely ridiculous statement. The nice thing is that the actors are skilled enough to know what to do with their characters, especially Barbara Hershey knows how to hold her own in the leading role. The cast members aren't given much to work with, but nevertheless the maximum is done with the minimum. Director Axelle Carolyn unfortunately fails to squeeze the tension out of the threat, mainly because the build-up of tension is not subtle enough to stick. Cinematographically, it all looks solid, which makes it even more unfortunate that the film never does what it should do and that is scare the viewer. However, that was somewhat forgivable, if it weren't for the fact that the final denouement is too stupid for words and blows away the rest of the whole. It simply doesn't make sense anymore, so it's nice that it only lasts 81 minutes.
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