"You Should Have Left" keeps with Blumhouse's concept of low budget and possibly high reward in that there's a very limited cast and only one major setting, but that structure doesn't cover up the mistakes. You Should Have Left is a disappointing entry into the horror genre. David Koepp and Kevin Bacon re team for a film that on paper would've sounded great.
Violence includes an attack by a ghost, a creepy man lifting a young girl up by her throat during a nightmare, wrist slicing (with blood), and other scary images/noises. You Should Have Left is very reminiscent of The Lodge, but the writing and directing, although not near perfect at all, are everything the latter wishes to be. Even so, though Koepp does a good job with the usual horror scenes most of the time, other times they are overdone and consequently Greetings, fellow cowards.
If you haven't heard, there's a new movie called You Should Have Left. From the trailer, it looks like another haunted house flick that holds the potential to ruin my. A former banker, his actress wife, and their spirited daughter book a vacation at an isolated modern home in the Welsh countryside where nothing is quite as it seems. Movie review: In Blumhouse's You Should Have Left, Kevin Bacon gives a strong performance as a man tormented by his inner demons, and Amanda Seyfried is good as his younger wife, but the movie. Marketed under the Blumhouse banner that has come to stand for gore and cheap thrills, You Should Have Left is instead an almost violence-free psychological thriller about rich people with internal. You Should Have Left is one of those.
Trailer You Should Have Left
This demonically infused horror flick is getting lots of attention now because, well, there's not much else to talk about. But it really doesn't deserve any. The acting by Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried is OK.
The site's critics consensus reads: "You Should Have Left hints at a genuinely creepy experience, but never quite manages to distill its intriguing ingredients into a consistently satisfying whole." 'You Should Have Left' Review: Kevin Bacon Is Terrorized in Creepy Haunted House Horror Story with a Twist David Koepp's adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann's wicked novella is as much about a fraying. 'You Should Have Left': Film Review Kevin Bacon stars in a haunted-house film that's a minimalist gloss on 'The Shining.' In a good way. You Should Have Left is a well-crafted movie, with a strong cast that enjoy excellent chemistry. The cinematography complements the themes of the story and makes you the viewer feel disoriented, unstuck from time, frustrated, and downright confused. And the direction, too, feels languid, almost mechanical, with rote terrors and tones robbed from horror movies past.