This movie confused both me and Eric. We have many questions. Who was this movie for? Was this made for kids or adults? What type of movie was this meant to be? A kids horror? How is this PG? Where was this filmed? So many more questions. Was the movie good or were we just confused? Well lets start with the first like 30 minute. It gave horror movie vibes but not really scary. It felt like it was trying to be scary but it could not. In the beginning they made it seemed like they were hunting a demonish monster. They were shooting them and trying to killed them. The Ochi were attacking the humans. This all happened in the woods at night. It felt like they were trying to scare you too with like in slasher horror. It was just confusing on what the movie was about.
Then we get to the second act, and the whole movie vibe changed the girl realized that the Ochi is not an evil creature it is very sweet and she feels sorry for it after it got stuck in a trap. She takes the baby Ochi home bandages the leg of it and sets off to take it home to its family. When her dad finds out she left he labeled it as she was taken. He gets his troops together to find her to rescue her. This is where we are shing the question, What type of movie is this? We started asking that question because it was no longer had any sign of it being a horror at this point. We also were thinking how did this get a PG rating. How did guns, blood and just the beginning vibe not make it at least a PG-13 rating? This movie also felt childish, and just weird at the same time.
The overall Realism of it was amazing you really could not tell what wasn’t real. The puppets moved and behaved in a way that felt super really. the sound quality was great too. the picture quality felt like it could have been better. it felt like it was filmed with old cameras or was put on an old VHS tape. I would have loved to see this with better picture quality. The actors I think were great, they did an amazing job. the story had weird stuff like the dad had a warrior outfit that seemed like a Roman style and it wasn’t fitting for the movie.
The third act gave a drama vibe with the reuniting of the kid, mom and dad. It definitely gave a happy ending with everyone realizing the Ochi is not a bad creature. The ending was uplifting and had a completely different feeling than the beginning. The scenery was also very elegant. The ending had a great location that really fit the overall vibe of the movie. The question regarding where the movie was film was important to us because it was not a place that felt like it was in the USA. The languages spoken on the radio was not English and it had a vibe so different from the USA. I had to look up the answer and it was film in Romania which would explain why it felt so different.
Both be and Eric agree on one question that we can’t figure out who was the film made for? That is what our biggest problem with this film. Everything was done so nicely but we can’t determine who this film was geared towards. I can not speak for Eric but this would be a 3/5 to a 3.5/5. Mainly because of picture quality and the fact that this movie gave a weird vibe. I would see it again because the flaws we saw were small and did not affect the overall story which was good.
Edited by
Taylor Edelman
