Restoration

source: Restoration

This is a pretty lame and unscary B-horror, with a non involving story and uninteresting characters. It's full of clichés (ghost of a killed little girl hovers around an old house), and the makers never succeed in evoking the apparently wanted sinister atmosphere. They tried to bring in a plot-twist in the last part, but when you introduce within 15 minutes a neighboring couple that behaves extremely strange, you already know where that is leading to, so this twist fell totally flat. The story got more and more farfetched towards the end and the special effects are meagre. I guess the acting was okay, but that's about it. Disappointing.

This was just a strange film from what i made of it. They move into a house which needs renovating, they find a teddy bear in a wall, they then find a diary in the bear. Then they see a ghostie of the girl who wrote the diary, who was murdered and then(as we later discover) buried about 2" below ground level. They finally put her spirit to rest, don't phone the Police, then get held captive by their 'friends' who turn out to be some demons. Maybe i just wasn't paying attention properly(because the film was so bad), but where did that ending come from? It made no sense. This is a really bad film.

42 minutes in and I gave up. Life is too short and I have too many other movies on my watchlist to make it to the end of this crapfest. I figured out what was going on with the neighbors early on because Harold dresses like an old man and Francine at one point called Rebecca "a dear". My grandma does that.

It was not as bad as some reviews are. Actually an ok horror movie with good acting. And the ending also a very creepy one.

Total waste of time. Before anything good started happening there was only 20 minutes left of the movie. I've seen many movies similar to this which are so much better with a better story line. I thought some parts were a bit confusing and the end was just full on stupid. I might just ne me but i thought the casting wasn't right. I found it hard to believe that the 2 main characters were meant to be married and the scene where they found out she was pregnant was just ridiculous. I would not recommend this movie. Sorry...

Restoration is badly directed. The husband and wife are not believable, which is a huge indication that screams stop don't waste 92 minutes of your time find another movie cause this ain't it. Ridiculous premise of finding a diary of a dead child inside a teddy bear. Who in their right mind uses a huge butcher knife to cut open a teddy bear? A so called doctor. Really? Nothing about this woman being a doctor is authentic not even in hospital scrubs. Inauthenticity radiates through out this movie from let's throw in a pregnancy along with stoic responses to inappropriate neighbors, ridiculous fight and murder scenes, as well as the twisted sex scenes. Just Bad, Boring, Unbelievable.

Dr. Rebecca Jordan (Emily O'Brien ) and her husband handyman Todd (Adrian Gaeta ) move into a new home that requires some restoration. They discover an old Teddy Bear with a girl's diary inside. Weird things start to happen which include a bunch of jump scares. Granted a kid's diary is no "Evil Dead" book, but there is something going on as the diary indicated there were issues in the neighborhood. About 40 minutes into the film things go to the next level. The ending was pretty much expected and I was hoping it would be something else, as the twist was a mixed horror genre. The ending messed up what was a half decent ghost story. Guide: F-word, sex, nudity.

I found the movie not very engaging and hard to get into. Things happened but it just felt like they did to move the plot forward. The acting in this movie was dry and it felt like a b-flick movie. The story was what it was and whatever it was about by the time it was over I didn't care much for it. The women in this movie are pretty and I guess that's a plus... just not enough of a plus to actually watch this movie from start to finish. I felt like it could of been done better but the way it was executed felt very low budget and just straight forward that didn't give you much of a reason to guess about anything or try to solve the mystery. It just kind of fast forwards itself to the end in a way. Would I watch this again? No. would I recommend it to anyone? No. I just can't think of anything that's really good about this movie. It's not terrible... it's not bad...it's just not all that interesting.

I must say that I usually tend to be a bit hesitant about a movie where the guy who wrote the script also directs and stars in the movie himself or herself, which turned out to be the case with "Restoration" at the hands of Zack Ward. Reading the synopsis for the movie, however, did win me over enough to make me actually pick up the movie and give it a go. And having a nice looking DVD cover also was a selling point for the movie. One thing that I did like about "Restoration" was the cast, because it was all unfamiliar actors and actresses to me, aside from Zack Ward. And I do enjoy watching talents that I haven't seen before, as they are not Associated with previously portrayed characters and roles. "Restoration" is an unfathomably slow paced movie, and 21 minutes into the movie I was more than tempted to give up and find something else to watch, because there had been very little happening, and the characters were just so mundane and faceless that I didn't care one bit about them, nor could I differentiate between them. They could essentially have been played by one and the same actor or actress. There seem to be very little meat on the body in terms of storyline and plot here, and after 40 minutes of enduring nothing happening, I still was waiting for a coherent and clearly painted out storyline. You actually find yourself frequently checking the time to see how much time has progressed, and I must admit that I gave up on the movie just shortly after 40 minutes of pure boredom. This movie was so slow paced that it was almost torture to sit through. I have no plans or intention of returning to "Restoration" to finish watching it, because there was nothing, and I do mean that literally, nothing to keep me entertained or wanting to see what would befall the generic characters in the movie.