The Caretaker:

Man, this shit bored me to tears!

I got the feeling that it was going to see a horror film form the poster I saw at the local theater. I went in blindly fingering that I’d find some joy from it. Oops.

Now I’m just discovering form the imdb page that the movie I saw was not the movie I met to see. The poster they had up in the AMC I went to see it in is not the same movie I saw. It has the exact same name but was a completely different movie.

It’s actually a ghost story made in Brazil. It’s about a college professor who focuses on debunking the supernatural. A student at the same university comes to him about An issue of a caretaker who hung himself back when her dad was a child is now hunting the house they live in, disturbing the young children (Cause ghost love disturbing young children)

The movie begins with the semi violent image of the caretaker hanging himself so you’re thinking you’re in for a ride, right?

Wrong! The Caretaker is about debunking ghost so most of the movie is about this professor trying to prove that their is a logical explanation to what is going on, when every one else is convinced there is something strange in the neighborhood.

So the film is really without any sort of hunting images or things that make you jump up. They did try a few times but all the attempts were too weak to be effective (Or a better theory: the movie was so dull that I was half asleep when those moments happen)

It’s one of those ghost stories that is so suppose to wow you with the realization of what’s going on, but it did not do that. The caretaker has no kick to it at all even with the great reveal that could save a film if done right. (Or once again the Caretaker was such a drag to get through that I was too busy struggling to keep my eyes open that I may have miss the key part that would make me go “wow”)

I do feel a little bad because I was hoping for so much more from this foreign language film. You could say that the translation was the problem, but I’ve seen plenty of ghost stories from Korea (who have mastered this genre), Mexico, and India that packed a bigger punch despite my need for subtitles

Skip this one.