As a storm approaches, a firefight who recently lost her mother, is tasked with checking on the residents of an old age home someone said was collapsing.
If the reasoning behind this film actually made any sort of sense this would have been one of the scariest films of the year. Filled with fantastic characters and images this film is technically one of my favorites of the film but the reasoning behind anything is completely lacking and nothing makes sense.
The film has something to do with a tentacled monster living underground and a passage to a better life, and giant fetus. How or why is anyone’s guess. It doesn’t help that things just suddenly happen. Yes I know the call that get the firefighters to the home is bogus, but everything that happens after that makes no sense. Is there any reason to remove the residents? Not really… until the house starts to try and kill people. Floors collapse, walls crack and the hallways just keep going on and on.
There is no logic.
There is no logic and as such no suspense. It might have worked if there were one or two moments of nonsense, but everything in the opening sequence and the nursing home is devoid of any reasoning even dream reasoning. As Raymond Chandler had warned, an audience will only believe one, perhaps two things that happen with no explanation, any more than that you lose the audience.
A MOTHER’S EMBRACE lost me early, and despite some the best images and sequences of the year the film is an over all miss.
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