Be Afraid (2017)
Not long after John Chambers and his family arrive at their new home in a small country town of Pennsylvania, John begins to experience sleep paralysis. Lying there paralyzed, trapped within his own nightmare, other-worldly beings visit John. They are entities which exist in the darkest shadows of the night and can only be seen out of the corner of one's eye. These encounters begin to haunt John, transforming to complete terror as he discovers the entities' sole purpose... the abduction of his seven year old son. In the end, John will uncover the town's horrific secret, a portal on his land, and make one last attempt to save his son before the shadow people permanently take him away to their world.
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Good scary movie for kids and adults who don't care about a storyline. It scared me a few times, but I still had my senses to know that the plot was incomplete.First, who, or what is this black guy in a hat? You can conceal the apparition in a horror movie, but concealing its identity, background or role is filmo-cide.Second, what does he/it want, and why does he/it kidnap the children? Here's the big question. I see that guy as a purposeless extraterrestrial being sneaking around and terrorising the whole place.Third, why did he/it stop after the doctor seemingly sacrificed himself for his son, like some sort of revenge?Fourth, quite silly but equally important, what does it do with its victims? I think I can answer that - turns some to apparitions like Emms and Chambers, and shreds others to pieces like the first dude in the tunnel. By the way, that was the funniest part of the whole film.Not satisfied. Scary, but feathery storyline.
The complaints of the negative reviewers on this page are warranted. The movie sets up a lot of good character arcs and plot lines and then just leaves them completely hung out to dry. It's really odd that no attempt is given to explain the origin of the creatures or the town's predicament. However, the movie still scared the crap out of me. I suffered from sleep paralysis for years, however, and anything that even somewhat accurately depicts the condition tends to get under my skin. I feel like the movie underachieved in regards to realizing a potentially terrific story, exploring the importance and difficulty of family and the role of being a father. Still, the first 4/5 of the movie gave me legitimate willies. The end annoyed me, but I don't want to say too much about that and spoil it. When all is said and done, there were definitely big problems with the movie, but I have to rate it high, personally, because I spent a huge portion of the film with fear-electricity running all over my skin. If you've ever suffered from sleep paralysis, this film might trigger some serious apprehension. It did for me.
Yes, you have to be afraid, you will lose one hour and half of your time watching a low budget horror film with no real story. A town terrified of the shadows yet too stupid to turn on some lights. I saw many stupid films but this one is in the top ten. Only one question remains : who can rate 10 for that crap???
This film I really enjoyed. When I first seen this rated as low as 4 I wasn't going to watch it. But after I did I'm so glad I did. The acting is top notch in this title and although the story is a bit weird I loved every minute of watching this title. It wasn't boring in the slightest. It grips you to your seat until the last minute as you really want to find out what happens and why. The ending was a bit odd as it just ended so suddenly. But all the same well worth buying, well worth watching