Therapy (2016)

I have to cop to my losing interest in this as it continued. I can't imagine members of a police force would add sound design and jump scare music to Go Pro footage found in this abandoned psyche hospital with graffiti walls, clown portraits, dolls, and patient pictures of women with the same doctor. I really found the darkened labyrinthine hospital with all these rooms quite effective at the beginning when the film's young ladies and two guys arrive to camp, one among them a patient of the doctor factoring a lot more in the overall story once this alternates with the detective bureau looking at the footage and investigating how to find them and why they are missing. The light of the Go Pro on the heads of two particular people, Sam(antha) and Seb(astian), turning around as they turn to record everything can be used quite well, especially when the Michael Myers wannabe can be seen at a distant with an ax, including this damaged patient named Amanda reluctantly helping the maniac.

The finale just left me cold instead of in awe of a shocking twist. Abigail Walker is more or less a patient in need of certain meds who seems to working in concert with the killer. Abigail assumes the police won't believe Sam while she pretends to be a victim saving the day. The killer with the Michael Myers mask wannabe is planted with the gun and Abigail assures no one will ever believe she's done anything against anyone, though her home was full of broken patients lost to the world.

The film even introduces trauma for the detective, Jane, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship while suffering nightmares of the current killer with the Michael Myers mask wannabe.

I will say I didn't know about the film being directed by a teenager until my fellow Letterboxers brought it up in different reviews. I will say that is quite impressive all things considered. I didn't hate this, but I guess my best description for it is indifferent. I mean, for instance, the director shoots in the interrogation room, deciding to aim the camera at the table as it reflects faces of the police officer and interviewee...it is nitpicky, I know. But it was just distracting. Still, that is a minor complaint. I just felt there is so much walking around and finding blood-shirt women, with such heavy dependence on that loud bang to jolt you, it got obnoxious.

But, probably the most irritating are decisions made to assist the bad guys in taking advantage of victims' mistakes. Granted, panic and terror can make you do illogical things. But the police at the end splitting up and calling for backup while remaining in a very dangerous situation without waiting for that assistance left me scratching my head. The clear and present danger perhaps could be used as an excuse. But I mean the end results left me saying to myself, "Well, of course they go down that way."