Who payed the critics

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Saw 'The Remains' being fond of horror/thriller regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre) and being intrigued somewhat by the idea. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to watching and reviewing.Unfortunately, despite not reading any reviews purposefully before watching, am going to have to agree with all the reviewers who hated 'The Remains'. A film that started off promisingly, but ran out of steam very quickly and rapidly got worse by a second half that makes one not want to keep watching. Never judge a film without seeing the whole thing and wanted to give 'The Remains', so gave it a fair chance.As said, 'The Ramains' started off pretty promising. The location is also suitably spooky.However, so much brings 'The Remains' down. Excepting Todd Lowe, who is okay, the acting is both over-histrionic or disinterested and the direction is so phoned in and pedestrian, one gets the sense that the director showed no interest in the film at all. Too much of the soundtrack is intrusive and annoying, made worse by the excessive and obvious sound effects that just cheapens the mood. The film looks drab generally and like it was made in haste.Where 'The Remains' most underwhelms is the writing and story. The writing is incredibly lazy, it's awkward in dialogue, very confused as a result of not tying things up or going into full detail and doesn't feel complete. The story suffers from a very limp pace, apparent early on and gets slower and slower until an interminably dragged out second half. It further suffers from feeling too much like a short film stretched out with a lot of useless padding. The stereotypical characters are both bland and annoying and the inconsistent and illogical motivations bring them down further. For a film billed as a horror, there is very little interesting and nothing remotely scary which makes a waste of such a spooky-looking location. They are too few and are far too predictable, anaemic and weakly timed to make impact, with the dull pacing and obvious sound effects cheapening them significantly. 'The Remains' doesn't engage let alone thrill, the start intrigued by feels wasted by how quickly everything runs out of steam. The ending was surprising somewhat but still doesn't leave much impact because it feels abrupt and one has lost engagement with the film long before it ends.In summary, very poor on the whole. 2/10 Bethany Cox

There was really no backstory to the haunting. At the beginning of the movie we see a seance gone wrong, but it flimsily just makes it that the medium dies and is now the evil spirit killing everyone in the seance. No backstory on the spirit itself, just a quick how do you do and off to the sad family with bratty kids and clueless father. Then we get a mediocre build up that just kind of stumbles along and an ending that seemed like it was done with the motivation that 'well, the movie has to end so let's do this.'

This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. There is no plot, no reason for this movie to even exist. It's not scary in any sense--no jump scares, no gross-outs, no psychological terror, nothing. Meaningless scenes come one after another with no reference to anything we're supposed to care about in the movie. Different shots of the same scene are sometimes so poorly edited that you see a character doing the same movement twice, unintentionally. And the summary that's given about possessed items in the attic is based on a huge inconsistency, and it's not intentional.And it's hard to care about ANY of the characters when they are this bad. We don't get a backstory on any of them. There aren't dramatic pauses when there should be, just stone-faced actors hurriedly rambling off lines to end the scene. The lines are so forced, it's as if all these people hated each other and were trying not to vomit.The only scary thing about this movie is that it was actually released. I know there's a niche for intentionally bad movies, like Sharknado and Birdemic and anything with Danny Bonnaduche.But this isn't intentionally bad, it's just annoying.I've seen better movies on RiffTrax/MST3K. They'd have a field day with this garbage.

The synopsis for "The Remains" is what lured me in, well, and also because I have always enjoyed horror movies. But I wasn't familiar with this movie prior to stumbling upon it by sheer random luck.And now having seen it, I can check it off the list, and say that I have seen it. It wasn't a particularly impressive movie, to be bluntly honest. The movie had a huge potential, but director Thomas Della Bella didn't utilize the potential. And the few scare moments there were to be found throughout the movie ended up as being nothing impressive, mere moments that you shrugged off with a casual shake of the head.I will say that the atmosphere in the movie was good, and Thomas Della Bella was good at building up the suspense, but he just lacked the conviction to bring it to a fulfilling climax. As such, then the movie suffered terribly, and ended up being less than mediocre.For a horror movie, then the only really frightening thing about the movie was the lack of scary moments and things that actually made you want to turn on the light. It was a dull, slow experience if you are looking for a good scare.The acting in "The Remains" was adequate, and it was Todd Lowe who was carrying the movie with his performance.Usually a good horror movie also has fairly good special effects. "The Remains" hardly used any special effects. So don't expect this to be a glorious Hollywood special effects galore.The best thing about the movie was actually the ending. That took me by surprise, and I hadn't seen that coming. So that was an upside to an otherwise flaccid and monotone movie."The Remains" is the type of horror movie that you watch once, then you bag and tag it, put it on the shelf, most likely never to see the light of day again.