Quarantine Watch #257: You Should Have Left (2020)

A lot of the design and lighting of the film reminds me of a video game I loved called CONTROL. This is complete withe modern cement architecture and the. All of the shadow effects and the initial germ of an idea that the film stems from, are really cool, but overall a lot of the film falls flat especially as it lurches towards its ending.. Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried are a weird pair to be playing a married couple, despite their age difference being a plot point of the film, and I think it affects their chemistry. The towns people were also really annoying stock characters. Once you realize what is going on, it become hard to keep playing along with the film. The real saving grace of the film is the performance by Avery Essex as the young daughter who is, in a word, AMAZING.

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