Very Twisted telling of a Ghost Story /Haunting/Murder/Lost Child/Grieving Father/Terrible Accident.
In all it actually came across like a very well made TV Drama than a Movie. BUT ,although slow in the telling it is a Dramatic story and well worth watching to the end. Though I was left dissatisfied with the eventual outcome ,many wont be .Not Everyone gets a Happy Ending .
Sad, Scary, Horrible and Something Finally taking its Revenge .
This is a superbly atmospheric ghost story set in a remote Icelandic town, involving a couple who – unadvisedly, as you would imagine – set out to renovate an old house. Equally predictably, this isolated, dilapidated building holds its own dark secrets.
The twist at the end works nicely and underpins the bleakness of it all, but again, it’s the atmosphere that sells ‘I Remember You’ to me. An unusual and quietly powerful ghost story. My score is 8 out of 10.
This is a WONDERFUL movie - Icelandic with loads of barren landscapes, it is at its core a simple haunted house film, with spooky missing children - another horror/ghost movie trope. All atmosphere - not gore, so teens need not bother.
The ONLY thing I didn't like was the confusion of the characters - it used to be that film directors often cast 2 or 3 blonde women who looked almost identical; now they cast 2 or 3 youngish men with hipster beards who look almost identical.
The setting makes this original, and I thoroughly enjoyed it - and jumped and got spooked! WAY better than multi-million budget Hollywood horror fare - for me, anyway. 4.5 stars rounded up.