The Shadow People

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If this movie were billed as anything else it would actually be pretty good. It's really a tragic love story with horror elements and bad special effects. A lot of low budget movies miss the mark on multiple criteria, such as bad audio, bad camera work, poor editing, bad acting, and a rushed story arc due to low film time. This movie actually manages to do very well in a lot of these categories. The cinematography is decent, audio is good, I didn't notice too many spots with syncing issues, and most importantly the two main actors were believable. They have very good chemistry and it's very easy to believe they are just another young couple in love. Where this movie fails to land is in its special effects, and with its genre. The ghosts/spirits aren't scary, the scariest part is when the wife grabs a gardening hoe and swings it at her husband. This really isn't a horror movie, it's not scary, it's just tragic. The ending is pretty predictable, but still has a little impact. The ending is also where the movie struggles, the pace accelerates so rapidly it looses cohesion, and what's with the priest? They don't allow random people to just walk up to accident victims on stretchers, not even clergy. And where the hell did the EMTs go? Other reviews mention some good points, like why do they just leave the car running and run to the house? Why don't they call a tow truck? It could be argued that since all the events after the first 3 minutes were a delusion that those things would be clues to the unrealness of the "reality" but it seems far more likely that they were unintentional. It's definitely not perfect, but it's not nearly as bad as many other movies on Tubi. Move it to a different category and it would probably attract a lot less negativity.

I have never watched something so awful in my whole entire life! I can't believe I made it to the end. If my son and I hadn't searched for something to watch for so long beforehand we would have turned it off. I wondered whether it was a spoof it was so corny! That poor defenceless woman 🙄🙄🙄 good god! I bet a lot of people don't make it to the end which is the only bit that makes sense by which point you don't care because you have had to endure the film until this point which is completely exhausting to watch. The relationship between the couple was sickly and vomit inducing. Poor acting. Pointless scene after scene... like the time his broke the mirror and the fact that they were drowning in two feet of water outside their front door.

Never in my LIFE have I rooted so hard for the ghosts to off the new, entitled, self centered, whiny, helpless, thoughtless, self absorbed, idiot "victims". The movie waivered between boring and mind numbingly annoying. Both stars I've given goes to C. Thomas Howell, the poor sap who is the only one that can actually act but still wasn't clever enough to avoid this train wreck. I have specifically noted the actresses name to ensure I never see her in anything ever again. I'm going to bet she is the one that wrote the only 9 star review. If this isn't rock bottom for Hollywood, it's as close as has ever reached.

Maybe I should have read the reviews of this movie on IMDb prior to sitting down to watch it, and thus have saved myself the wasting of time. But I am getting ahead of myself here. I hadn't heard about this 2017 horror movie titled "The Shadow People" before now in 2020 when I was given the chance to sit down and watch it. And I must admit that I was intrigued by the movie's cover and the title. However, I hadn't read the synopsis for the movie. But it within the horror genre was more than sufficient for me. The storyline was a mess. So very little of the events that took place throughout the course of the movie made little sense. Some of it was odd and slightly disturbing, sure. But when the reveal towards the end was unfolded on the screen you just sit there with a feeling of everything throughout the movie made even less sense, if any at all. "The Shadow People" has a fairly generic storyline, which was somewhat on the more boring and mundane aspect most of the time. There were the occasional random interesting thing happening now and again, but it wasn't enough to make the movie interesting. The acting in "The Shadow People" was actually adequate, taking into consideration the bland storyline and script conjured up by David Wilson and brought to life on the screen by director Brian T. Jaynes. My rating of this 2017 movie lands on a generous three out of ten stars. "The Shadow People" is not really worth the time or effort, and if you enjoy a proper horror movie then there are far better choices out there.

I watched this film all the way through, but about mid way through I had already guessed the ending. The pace was far too slow. The two leads weren't likable, at all. For Howell fans, he appears in maybe five minutes or less of the film. Recommended for people who enjoy dark/broody romantic supernatural films. For those who like a little scare factor and characters that make one care, skip it.

This film ends with a twist. It might not be the world's most surprising or original twist, but it puts everything we've seen before into a different context. I was hugely irritated by the sappy behaviour of the couple and the wife's irrational behaviour for most of the film, but by the end I had to admit it made sense given what was really going on. Though I do have to admit that giving over 95% of your film to foreshadowing the last two minutes doesn't really justify how annoying the wait ends up being.

Boring. Not scary. turns out they are dead the whole time. Crap movie. Decent acting though.

Just watched it for free on YouTube, the film was too bland with some writing problems, especially the girl who acted illogically. I couldn't get to sympathise with her plight because of it but the ending made it somehow worthwhile.

Lets start with the amazingly bad acting and end there! But wait, still have to mention, the effects of the "shadow people", so cheesey. The plot is predictable, I mean who doesn't know she's going to loose her necklace in the first 5 minutes? I'm sorry for anyone that wastes the 1 hour, 18 minutes, and 47 seconds on this film. I couldn't take more than 45 minutes. Not even sure it rates as "B" movie.