Director:
Corinna FaithGuión:
Corinna FaithCámara:
Laura BellinghamReparto:
Rose Williams, Charlie Carrick, Robert Goodman, Paul Antony-Barber, Emma Catherine Rigby, Ian T. DickinsonSinopsis(1)
London, 1974. As Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val arrives for her first day at the crumbling East London Royal Infirmary. With most of the patients and staff evacuated to another hospital, Val is forced to work the night shift in the empty building. Within these walls lies a deadly secret, forcing Val to face her own traumatic past in order to confront the malevolent force that’s intent on destroying everything around her. (Acorn Media UK)
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The Power capta bastante bien la época y el entorno perfecto para el género de terror, pero desgraciadamente el final usa un esquema de película de fantasmas un millón de veces visto que solo satisface a espectadores de terror quizás poco sofisticados, y se injerta un mensaje innecesariamente literal que ilumina lo que se supone que es el significado secundario del título The Power. Hace que el final se revuelque en su propia pomposidad y no me funcionó en absoluto.
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Rose Williams está bien, pero la dirección para descubrir el «horrible secreto» es distraída y llena de inutilidades injustificadas que solo pretenden asustar. Pero no asustan.
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Debutant Corinna Faith has made a ghostly film that, at least in its first half, manages to captivate with a rather unpleasant atmosphere and a convincing Rose Williams in the lead role. Unfortunately, the closer we get to the end, the more it becomes apparent that the director-screenwriter may have had too much ambition and can't quite pull off the themes she introduces. The Power ultimately wants to say too much and thus trips over its own feet in the finale.
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A nice British period ghost story that has some current social insight, but thankfully doesn't forget that horror is supposed to scare the viewer at least a little bit. A semi-abandoned hospital in the middle of London in the 1970s, at a time of regular all-night power cuts, is the perfect place for such a scare. The Power may be a bit slow to get going, but the central night sequence had me purring in delight. A really nicely made thing that can unsettle and give chills. I was looking forward to that mood lasting to the end; alas, it didn't. The ending was a bit ham-fisted, but on the other hand it offered a relatively meaningful conclusion and did not spoil the overall positive impression.
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An enjoyable, if not revelatory "haunted house" gothic horror film, where the atmosphere of an old mansion is replaced by an old hospital and a mysterious ghost delivers a social and women empowerment message. It's not particularly virtuosic and refreshing like His House, but it kept me going in the dark with no problem.
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