Adaline: A Psychological Thriller

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I signed up for a ghost story and got more a psychological thriller. Not that I'm complaining too much, as there was more than enough horror elements to still qualify as horror. Adaline has a good sense of dread the permeates the film, though it does get uneven and unfocused at times. Adaline's main issue is it tries to many things at once, is a ghost story, a murder mystery and has a large does of thriller. But never manages to nail down anyone aspect enough to stay interesting and unfortunately spends a sizable portion of its time just meandering, never really advancing the story. Adaline opens with a woman tied to an inverted pentagram being sacrificed by a cloaked figure. The film then switches gears to follow floundering artist Daniela …show more content…

Things are going rough for her with her saving have run out and unable to find a studio to showcase her art, when she opens a letter informing her that she has just inherited a house in the small town of San Andreas along with a small sum of money from an aunt she never knew she had. Hoping that the change of scenery will be just thing she needs, she packs up and moves there. After arriving she makes friends with a local man, Marvin (Jeremy Walker) who's slightly mentally disabled. They become friends forming a big sister, little brother relationship. Besides Marvin, Daniela also meets her hunky neighbor John (Lane Townsend), who she also forms a relationship. Though this one far more romantic and intimate. While this is happening, Daniela starts receiving visions from …show more content…

Though not as bad as the off-balance tone, so spoiler. Dr. Gibson's character feels completely out-of-place in this film. The perverted creepy thearpist role is a common character, but here it's completely miss used. He's made the red herring and it wouldn't be so bad if he had a purpose other than sucking up screen time. He's shown to be drawing pictures of Daniela tied up with the final one of her tied to the inverted pentagram we see the woman killed on in the beginning of the film and the words happy death written along the bottom. Then, nothing. He's just gone from the film and in no way effects the outcome. It would make sense if he was one of the killer or was in some way involved. But no, nothing. He's just a big waste of screen

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