The horror of Kevin Grotert, released in 2015, was extremely reserved by the public and earned cool reviews from film critics. With an IMDb rating of 5.30, the film “Visions” has reviews in which particularly skeptical reviewers position it as yet another passing mystical story with imperfect casting. Some categorically-minded filmmakers wondered how the tape, which is on the air on cable channels, generally hit the big screen. However, how many people - so many opinions. The picture does not pretend to be a masterpiece, but it is quite watchable.
The plot twists and turns
According to the idea of the creators, the main character Eveli (Isla Fisher) had to endure a terrible tragedy - a car accident in which her baby dies. Naturally, the inconsolable mother is plunged into the abyss of severe depression. She manages to recover more or less a year later, thanks to the care and understanding of her husband David (Anson Mount), and impressive doses of antidepressants. David, trying to bring his beloved wife back to reality, is completely changing their usual way of life, buying a manor and a vineyard in the province. There the couple and moved to a permanent place of residence.
Now Eveli is pregnant again, but after moving to a new home, a woman begins to be weighed down by strange visions prophesying the coming terrible events. This is the intrigue that the film Visions contains. The reviews of movie experts strongly recommend not to disclose the final twist prematurely.
About the creators
Film critics, having watched the film "Visions", posted various reviews, but in every second they doubted the sufficient professional experience of the director of the film.
The horror was directed by an experienced editor Kevin Grotert, who recently re-qualified as a director with the light hand of D. Wang and L. Wonnel (curators of the Saw franchise). The producers not only entrusted Grotert with the shooting of the two final parts of the terrible epic, but also gave the green light to the production of the horror film Jezabel, which pleased the fans of the genre with the rich atmosphere of Louisiana witchcraft.
“Visions” Kevin shot immediately after the premiere, but the path to the big screen for the project turned out to be rather thorny. Initially, the premiere was announced for 2014, but after watching the test audience the film "Visions" received depressing reviews. Then the producers decided to hold it until better times.
The opinion of professionals
In 2015, the picture nevertheless reached the box office, and after the premiere, the concerns of the producers, including the informal “king of the modern horror” Jason Bloom, were not in vain. Film critics dubbed the project a lazy and uncomplicated mystical film, built on a single final twist, which, by the way, is not so unpredictable. In addition to him, in the movie "Visions" there are a lot of trivial moments in which, according to experts, originality and author's imagination are replaced by the volume of orchestral beats, which has been wound to the maximum.
Casting cast
Even more surprising for film critics seemed the cast of the film. The leading actor Isla Fisher is definitely an gifted actress, but she is harmonious in a comic or romantic image. Therefore, the viewer experiences her heroine in a mystical horror is difficult to take seriously.
Not a very good solution was an invitation to the cooperation of actress Gillian Jacobs, a trail of the image from the comedy series "Community" also stretches for her.
And Eva Longoria from Desperate Housewives and Jim Parsons from The Big Bang Theory got very small roles that did not allow the performers to demonstrate their skills to the full.
It turns out that all the main components of the Vision horror were criticized: the actors, the narrative structure and the visualization of Kevin Grottert. Recently, more and more uninspired, weak films in the horror genre are becoming more and more, which is not the best trend.