Movies like this one are kinda cheating when they act as though they are based on a true story, but never actually say so, so you can't get mad at them when the unbelievable starts to happen. The film begins by saying it has been edited from an unfinished documentary, outtakes, and news footage to create what you're about to see. So it kinda seems like maybe this is real, but we actually live in a world filled with lies. In short, this isn't a true story.
But that is not really important at all to the quality of the movie.
The premise here is that a medical student is creating a documentary on Alzheimer's disease, focusing on a particular patient, Deborah Logan. At first, things are harmless, yet depressing enough. This frail old lady is clearly losing it, but doesn't seem to even realize it, while her daughter turns to alcohol to cope with the stress of being her caretaker. While I've not experienced living with someone with Alzheimer's directly, the increasing dementia was rather hard to watch.
Things begin to get a bit more eerie as her mental health deteriorates leading to a pretty wild final act.
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Rating on the Spook-o-meter: 5 out of 10 boos
awesome movie
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