Genre: Thriller/ Horror/ Drama
Runtime: 98 minutes
Year: 2019
Starring: Charlie Shotwell, Max Martini, Kelly Reilly, Sadie Sink, Lili Taylor
Description: A boy (Charlie Shotwell) receiving treatment for his auto-immune disorder discovers that the house he’s living in isn’t as safe as he thought.
Review: Young Eli has lived most of his life on the inside of a plastic bubble. And every time he leaves the house, he has to wear suit covering his entire body. He has an auto-immune disorder. Together with his parents, Eli travels to a house where a special doctor specialized in treating people with such disorders lives. But once they are there, Eli starts to see strange things and knows the house isn’t very safe at all. The treatments are painful, but he is also being tortured by seeing things that probably aren’t even there. At least that’s what everyone else says. Only the mysterious neighbor Haley believes him and knows that something shady is going on in that house. Eli starts to distrust the doctor.
“Eli” is a spooky mystery horror film. At first sight, it’s a standard ghost story set in an old mansion with all clichés of ghostly appearances. Some jumpscares hre and there, but everything is too cliché to become scary. Halfway through, this changes and eventually we get to a unpredictable conclusion.
I think the scariest thing is Eli’s personal horror, the decease he has to live with. Not being safe outside, but also not inside. And putting his life in the hands of the strange Dr. Horn.
Even though the movie has a surprising twist ending, I did predict other elements of the film. I will of course not spoil them for you. But the eventual conclusion will also answer some question you have throughout the movie. So, it is necessary to watch the entire film. Even if you think you’re watching yet another haunted house movie.
Overall, “Eli” starts out like an average film in its genre, but eventually pays off. Not a movie that will be remembered for long, but it’s an okay horror flick.
Rating: 3/ 5
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