Oh, screw this.
About fifty minutes into this movie, an adorable calico kitty cat is killed for no good reason. We’re not supposed to care because the cat belonged to an annoying neighbor, the cat had a silly name (Mr. Nibbles, though considering that the cat’s a calico, it really should have been named Ms. Nibbles), and the cat was trespassing in the main character’s house. But, to tell you the truth, I’ve had it with movies that feature animals being killed for nothing more than shock value. Don’t get me wrong. I know that cat wasn’t really killed and the cat’s owner probably got paid for her services but I’ve seen so many movies with so many dead pets that it just feels lazy at this point.
As for the rest of the film, it tells the story of Emma (Katia Winter) and her daughter, Isla (Leya Catlett). Emma, a recovering alcoholic and a recent widow, has recently gotten custody of Isla. They live in a gigantic house, one that I’m not sure how Emma affords on her salary as a waitress. While Emma tries to bond with the uncommunicative Isla, strange things start to happen around the house. Doors seem to open and close on their own. The home security system keeps going off. Things keep disappearing. People keep disappearing. Isla starts to talk about “the lost ghost” who apparently lives in her closet. Isla explains that the lost ghost is “always here” and he’s always watching Emma. Along with the ghost, Emma is haunted by memories of her past and an obsessive stalker who keeps showing up at inopportune moments.
You’re Not Alone actually gets off to a good start. Haunted house films are almost always effective because everyone can relate to them. We’ve all had the experience of lying in bed and wondering if someone is wandering around outside or if the sounds are just in our imagination. You don’t even have to live in a house to have that fear. Even when you’re living in an apartment, things get creepy once you turn out the lights, Katia Winter gives a good and sympathetic performance as Emma and you’re on her side from the minute you see her having to deal with a snooty woman at the custody hearing. The early scenes of Emma trying to keep calm and do her best even while her life seems to be falling apart are the best in the film.
But You’re Not Alone loses its way as it continues. The cat dies. A visit to a church feels like it was lifted from a hundred other horror films. Emma’s best friend disappears in the closet but Emma never seems to notice her absence and Isla, who witnessed the disappearance, never mentions it to her. A bunch of flies invade the house because someone’s seen The Amityville Horror. The film commits the unpardonable sin of getting boring and a sudden twist ending can’t change that fact.
Call it the Curse of Mr. Nibbles. Kill the cat and your film falls apart.
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I really enjoyed this movie. I couldn’t stop looking at it. However it became confusing at the end when the police took the mask off and it was Mark the stalker!!! What happened to the real guy that was trying to kill Emma and Isla???? Now I’m agitated..
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Just watch the show didn’t even get it ,it was so terrible just terrible didn’t make any sense no conclusion at all at the very end was confusing basically the stalker/squatter who’s been loading this woman’s house must have survived the attack outside their yard and when the woman was down he must have got up went into the house change his cloak and mask and put on the dead guy which was Emma’s crazy friend never knowing who the real soccer was and the thing what is as you got two dead victims in the house with attractive flies cuz that’s what flies do they attract dead things and IsIa never mentioned to her mother oh by the way your friend came over which would be the girl’s aunt in some way we came over she fed me we played hide and seek and then she just disappears and that was that and even which made me so annoyed is when the mother goes to her friend’s house and knocking on the door never once did the daughter mentions to her mother oh she’s somewhere in the house? I mean come on she’s old enough to talk she’s old enough to tell her mom what’s up I guess the flies and the smell of decomp didn’t get away because Mom was to be the drinking and doing with her crap to figure it out so in the end the only body that I saw being dragged out of the house was her ex friend Patrick and he wasn’t even the stalker living in the walls he was just coming over inappropriate trying to make moves but things didn’t go his way he got really violent and aggressive controlling behavior in the end he gets killed by the squatter. And in the end he comes out in a body bag all dressed up in black clothing with a black face covering but when Patrick broke the window and sitting off the alarm he was wearing normal clothes but in the end he’s all dressed in black. So how I got out of it during the end of the show is that when the mother was attacked outside and she did get the upper hand and stabbed the squatter he went down she was in our consciousness the squatter must have got up went into the house took off his disguise outfit put it on Patrick and who the real true identity is of the squatter no one knows and the show fades away but not before the woman Emma as she’s in a stretcher getting ready to be transported in an ambulance one of the forensic team it’s not him make you to believe that the true identity of the stalker / squatter is probably deeper in the house. It would have been really nice if when the forensic team and the police team are searched in the house that they discovered the two dead body remember the neighbor went into the woman’s house looking for her cat she never came out of the house and her friend was playing hide and seek was Elsa and she hasn’t been seen so it would have been nice to have that kind of conclusion that they would have pulled out bodies from within the walls rather than just one so I got the fact that they’re still in the wall yeah not a very good show or ending
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