Il Legame [aka The Binding] (2020)
Nineteenth review is for an Italian spiritual horror movie that has a very exciting trailer but didn’t deliver on everything I hoped to see. Malevolent spirits, spiders, rituals, secrets, misleading acting, eerie atmosphere. Includes #spoilers :
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Il Legame [aka The Binding] (2020) Pros: The atmosphere, the scene with the sick trees, the scene with the girl scratching in her sleep and all of the sound engineering, slicckk. Also some of the misleading behavior that made you think that the mother-in-law was doing some kind of black magic, but more on that later.
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Cons: To be brutally honest, I faded out at the end. I didn’t care about any of the characters by then. The spiritual lady was a little too cryptic for me. You doing spells on my daughter, we would have had to have a conversation right there. Just saying “I’m doing this to protect her” without offering more is wild. Bags packed, seatbelts on, car in drive. And since Emma is about to be a part of the family, I would have changed the story to have the spiritual head of the household teach them and turn them into believers starting with the trees and ending with the malevolent spirit. & YOU’RE telling me, if your daughter got bitten by a big ass tarantula you gon keep sleeping in the bed with no hesitation? Also the story with the malevolent ghost who the man had cursed while she was pregnant with his baby, I didn’t care about her either, though I wanted her to get her revenge. (Reminds me of Bones, The Grudge, Gothika, & La Llorona about spirits and revenge) The effects were great but in the end the revelations were unsatisfying and I found more creepiness in the house being haunted and the mysteries around the sick trees. That never came back. Them sick ass trees just stayed sick and shorty stabs the ghost and it disappears? And homeboy tussles with the ghost, dies, but doesn’t die?
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I give it a 3 because it doesn’t deserve a 2 and it had so many things I love: Haunted, spiritual, cultish places but it just went all over the place at the end. And then the father breathes and that’s the end? Nahh not for me.
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