Type: Horror, Psychological Thriller
Review:
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The Tall Man is an Awesome Thriller that caught me off guard. Seriously! I wasn't expecting much from it, and watching the trailer I thought it was going to be another mainstream missing children horror film so I kept it on the shelf for more than one month before I finally hit the play button to watch it. But the truth is that it is nothing like the trailer, nor as dark as it what was marketed as. This is a film with a really great plot and some clever twists which -I personally think- makes it one of the best psychological thriller movies of 2012.
Julia Denning (Jessica Biel) is a nurse who lives in Cold Rock, an isolated, slowly dying ex-mining town where children go missing without a trace on a regular basis despite the police efforts to stop what the town's people call: "The Tall Man" who became sort of a local legend surrounded by superstition.
Julia found the story hard to believe... until she faces The Tall Man in the middle of one night before he kidnaps her young David.
Frantic to rescue the boy, Julia lives every parent's darkest nightmare as she tries to track down where her child was taken while a shocking truth starts to unravel in this twisting, mind-blowing thriller from the mind of the acclaimed director Pascal Laugier.
The Tall Man starts as a Dark Horror and turns into a moralistic, twisted story that portrays how crazy our big world can be and how can people fight blindly for an idea or a belief that they see as right.
The twist can be a bit hard to understand, or as I like to say hard to swallow as there are some parts to question. Some of you just won't accept the fact that this movie is actually taking that direction, and as I said before the trailer and the marketing campaign were definitely a misleading, but it's the kind of film that needs you to put your expectations aside and give it a chance.
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Pascal Laugier successfully created a weird but powerful thriller with a thought-provoking story but in my humble opinion, the credits mostly go to the solid and richly-textured performance of Jessica Biel who handled the material in the best of ways.
The Tall Man is an Awesome Thriller that caught me off guard. Seriously! I wasn't expecting much from it, and watching the trailer I thought it was going to be another mainstream missing children horror film so I kept it on the shelf for more than one month before I finally hit the play button to watch it. But the truth is that it is nothing like the trailer, nor as dark as it what was marketed as. This is a film with a really great plot and some clever twists which -I personally think- makes it one of the best psychological thriller movies of 2012.
So what's so awesome about The Tall Man?
Julia found the story hard to believe... until she faces The Tall Man in the middle of one night before he kidnaps her young David.
Frantic to rescue the boy, Julia lives every parent's darkest nightmare as she tries to track down where her child was taken while a shocking truth starts to unravel in this twisting, mind-blowing thriller from the mind of the acclaimed director Pascal Laugier.
The twist can be a bit hard to understand, or as I like to say hard to swallow as there are some parts to question. Some of you just won't accept the fact that this movie is actually taking that direction, and as I said before the trailer and the marketing campaign were definitely a misleading, but it's the kind of film that needs you to put your expectations aside and give it a chance.
.jpg "The Tall Man 2012 Movie Review by http://www.awesomethrillers.com/2012/12/The-Tall-Man-2012-An-Unexpectedly-Awesome-Thriller-Movie.html")
Pascal Laugier successfully created a weird but powerful thriller with a thought-provoking story but in my humble opinion, the credits mostly go to the solid and richly-textured performance of Jessica Biel who handled the material in the best of ways.
Thriller Info: [Source: Wikipedia]
Directed by: Pascal LaugierProduced by: Clément Miserez, Kevin DeWalt, Jean-Charles Levy, Scott Kennedy, David Cormican
Written by: Pascal Laugier
Starring: Jessica Biel, Jodelle Ferland and Stephen McHattie
Distributed by: Image Entertainment
Release date: 31 August 2012
Running time: 100 minutes
Country: Canada and France
Language: English
Budget: $30 million
Box office:$4,532,359
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