The Taking of Deborah Logan

GENERAL INFORMATION
Release Info: 21 Oct 2014
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Staring:  Jill Larson and Anne Ramsay
Rating? R
SPOILERS? NO

REVIEWS
IMDB: 6 of 10
MY RATING: 5 of 10

STORYLINE
What is taking Deborah Logan? Some memories are worth forgetting.

MY REVIEW:
I had extremely high hopes.. Rated R, form the director of X-Men... it lived up to some of the hype, just not all.

The set-up had some intriguing possibilities for me. The idea in this film was that a independent filmmakers utilize a documentary style of filmmaking within the horror idea in a medical documentary about Alzheimers disease.

Deborah Logan {Jill Larson} was a single mom who is slowly falling into the horrid and debilitating disease. Her daughter Sarah {Anne Ramsay} is her only family. In an effort to bring Alzheimers to the front of peoples mind and earn some money for medical bills, she agrees to allow Mia Medina {Michelle Ang} and her film crew into her home. With the camera rolling, Deborah begins to exhibit some strange and malevolent actions that simply cannot be attributed to the disease. This was just an interesting idea!

It's slow paced, I assume because of the medical nature of the first half of the movie. The documentary crew seems detached from the story, impersonal, and really hard to connect with as a viewer. The relationship between Ramsay and Larson is really the only redeeming nature of this movie. They were the savior of this movie for me.

It's unnerving and interesting at the same time. The majority is fairly slow, but the end seems rushed and improbable. The end feels like such a far cry from how real people would respond. It was good, but not great.