Besetment (2016)

Nice effects though.

As Good As It Gets

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

A unemployed woman finds a job in a ugly looking hotel where she meet an old woman who hires her. The woman who seems very nice has a dark secret, and a dark agenda. Besetment is obviously a B-movie, there's no doubt about that, however you don't see that in the production, direction, maybe in the acting, nothing else.

Reading some peoples reviews on this is pitiful. The story is solid, acting is good the camera work could be better (seeing camera man in window of Sheriff Joe's Jeep outside the restaurant), sound is ok. Over all it's a good film, not every movie needs to be on a super explosive Hollywood budget. Like many die hard horror fans, we will watch good, bad and really bad and somewhere in-between each of those is the "it's not bad but not good either". This movie is certainly not an edge of a seat sitter or splatter/slasher flick but it does tell a good story and it shows some good acting by leads.

Amanda Millard (Abby Wathen) needs a job and not a GED. She manages to score one at the Oregon Hotel in remote Mitchell, Oregon (actual place, filmed it there). The town is a bit backward and Mildred (Marlyn Mason) the owner has a simple minded son Billy (Michael Meyer)...and we know where this goes.Normally films such as this take place in remote rural locations to make it believable. This was a low budget film. The sound track had a lame made for TV appeal for much of the feature. The acting was what would be expected for a script that lacked cohesion. The camera angles and framing needs improvement, stop cutting off the top of heads. The climax was unexpected, but wasn't very climatic. What was with the wig? The end scene with Adam wasn't developed.Marlyn Mason won best supporting actress at "Back in the Box, California 2016" for what it is worth. Now I had to take a second look when I saw the name Marlyn Mason which looks like cult rock star and Michael Meyer whose name is similar to the Halloween killer. During the opening credits they showed scenes from the film, which was a waste when they should of showed newspaper clippings about the dead husband and other nefarious things about Mitchell. And what was with the backward "E"' in nearly every name? The film was written, directed, and produced by Brad Douglas. The production had potential, but fell short.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

The unemployed Amanda Millard (Abby Wathen) is desperate to find a job since she is forced to live with her alcoholic estranged mother. Out of the blue, she is invited to a job interview at the Oregon Hotel in Mitchell in the countryside of Oregon 80 miles far from home. When she arrives, she is welcomed by the nice Mildred Colvin (Marlyn Mason) that offers a maid position to Amanda and her son Billy Colvin (Michael Meyer) fix her car. Amanda returns home to say goodbye to her mother and to her friend Brittany (Sonya Davis) and bring her belongings to Mitchell. Soon Amanda befriends the cook Brad (Max Gutfreund) from a nearby eatery and spends her day off with him. When she returns to the hotel, she faints and learns that she is pregnant. But how, if she has not had any sexual encounter with any man?"Besetment" is a horror thriller with a promising storyline but a weak screenplay and poor production with extreme low-budget. The flawed plot could have explored the situations better and developed the characters better. Brad, for example, is murdered but the viewer does not know anything about him and no resident seems to miss him. Mildred uses a gunshot in the middle of the night and nobody hears the shot. Amanda is abused in the hotel and sees her friend murdered in her room, but she keeps the baby and moves to live in the place in the end. The director and writer Brad Douglas is quick to make amends to the polemic situations using fade out, such as the incestuous relationship of Billy and Mildred, or she sewing Amanda's mouth. There is one very funny line (Amanda saying to Mildred "I'm either giving birth to the new messiah or that doctor's full of s hit!") and one attempt with the Sheriff that can not recall the correct codes. My vote is two.Title (Brazil): Not Available