The Sound (2017)

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

I like horror and thrillers, but I had not even heard about "The Sound" prior to finding it by sheer random luck. Now, with a cast such as Rose McGowan and Christopher Lloyd in a horror movie, I was a bit hesitant. But I overcame this, because after all it is Christopher Lloyd after all."The Sound" is an incredibly slow paced movie with very little happening throughout the entire movie. And I am not exaggerating here.The storyline seems rather pointless to the point where the audience starts to slip through its fingers, and there isn't much of any worth to experienced here.The movie has a small cast, whom managed to do well enough with what little they had to work with in terms of script and storyline. It was odd, however, to see Christopher Lloyd in a movie such as this, but not that he faired ill or anything. No, he actually did quite well, considering the limitations of script and story.Not much of special effects throughout the movie, which was sort of alright I suppose, because this was hardly the type of horror movie that needed an overwhelming array of special effects to work out.

I think I made it half an hour into the movie before the stream of incoherent hashtags had me rooting for the protagonist to get killed. There were a few brief interesting moments when Christopher Lloyd makes his entrance but the succession of characters that wander into the lack of a story just remind me of how unprepared our hero is for her adventure. As a "scientist" she should be worried about the real physical harm that can come to somebody wandering into "a rat infested pit covered with graffiti", to borrow a line from the movie. The story had some potential but it went nowhere for so long that no payoff could ever be worth the wait.

As soon as Rose McGowan (the central character) enters the lower level of a Toronto subway station, the film sinks lower than the station could ever sink. Stink rhymes with sink. This film is a boring, confusing mish-mash that never makes much sense. The scariest part of the movie is the ending, which is a set up for a sequel! Terrifying!

Kelly Johansen (Rose McGowen) is a ghost debunker. She detects low level sounds which cause vibrations and lead to hallucinations. She is drawn to an abandoned subway in Toronto to investigate the ghost of a woman who committed suicide. Once she gets there the plot thickens as new information is suddenly thrown at us all in the effort to ruin a simple ghost story.This falls in line with the modern trend of having the debunker, i.e. person with no faith, change their mind. "1408" was the classic of this style. It maintained a simple plot. I liked the film, and then.. Hey Jenna Mattison, sometimes less is more.Apparently in Canada, there is no such thing as trespassing. Rose McGowan kept falling asleep during the film.Guide: no swearing, sex, or nudity