Very disappointing...

Just what I expected

Absolutely Fantastic

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Well, I didn't see the trailer for it but I liked the poster for this movie, that's why I watched. :D Although this movie seemed interesting because what happens to Deborah is a real deal(at first) because she seems to have Alzheimer's disease. And then crap happens. It turns out not to be Alzheimer's and she goes nuts. Everybody else goes nuts because movie is repetitive. Deborah goes out at night and just walks like a ghost. Nobody knows where's Deborah at. And everybody's yelling her name, and out of fear, each other's name. I started to laugh at one point and Deborah started to get on my nerves. LIKES: Anne Ramsay's acting. She seemed natural and easy-going. Real.The idea of Alzheimer's in horror movie.Jill Larson as an odd looking old lady who I imagined in real life having her cup of tea and being a cruel but sophisticated grandma.DISLIKES: repetitiveness: it's like you're going through deja vu whenever night falls.so much going on: at first Deborah's problem is Alzheimer's, then you think she might be possessed by a demon, then you find out that demon might not be a demon but a ghost but then again was that man she killed a ghost or is she just mad? did she really kill that man or was it that neighbor? wtf.

Docu films are passe and even if they aren't they should be exceptionally well made- which The Taking of Deborah Logan is not. At least Paranormal activity managed to be scary but this film proves that the home video/documentary horror should be buried six feet under. (Avoid it and rent The Exorcist instead).

I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. It has actually a good plot, convincing acting (especially Anne Ramsay and Jill Larson, who were AMAZING!) and it's frightening. Only negative thing I can say is that I didn't like the camera crew and their the whining, really annoying. But otherwise, very good job.

This review will be brief. Which does not mean that the movie is bad. On the contrary, the taking of Deborah Logan is one of the most scary and best horror movies I have seen in years, easily at par with Rec, which I consider another gem of the last 20 years.It's in the found-footage genre, but as opposed to many other horrors it does not use cheap thrills and the same endless clichés of horror movies, which strongly benefits the narrative and the tense nature of the movie. Instead of, for example, relying on children that are scary or demonic appearances, this movie relies on an ultra-realistic atmosphere (including normal surroundings, police, hospital, everybody being a witness of somebody scary happening instead of only the protagonist etc etc) and an intelligent scenario about a women of about 50-60 years old that is quickly loosing her mind due to Alzheimer. The acting of both female protagonists (the Alzheimer mother and her daughter) is superb and very convincing. The lack of cheap thrills actually enhances this movie but simultaneously strays away from the boring extended build-ups with nothing really happening that is so common in modern-day horror cinema (for example: House of the Devil, the Witch etc.). It is thus an action-packed but not extremely fast movie with superb acting and some horrifying scenes. Everything is balanced, even realistic you could say (up to a certain point) and for me the Taking turned out to be an unexpected pleasure. Hopefully there will be more where that came from!