The Power

Rose Williams est bien, mais la réalisation de la révélation du « terrible secret » est inconsistante et pleine d'inutilités injustifiées qui ont pour seul but de faire peur. Et elles ne font même pas peur. (16/05/2021)

Les décors d’époque sont assez réussis, tout comme le milieu qui semble avoir été spécialement conçu pour le genre horrifique, mais ils sont malheureusement gâchés par une structure de film de fantômes totalement éculée qui ne satisfera que les amateurs d’horreur du dimanche. De plus, un message y est inutilement greffé, qui fait la lumière sur ce qui devrait être le sens secondaire lié au titre The Power. La fin du film se noie dans sa grandiloquence et pour moi, ne fonctionne tout simplement pas. (17/05/2021)

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. (02/06/2021)

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. (08/04/2021)

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. (31/05/2021)