The film starts out as a doctorate study of an Alzheimer's patient and seemed very realistic, Having not read anything about the film, I thought that was what I was going to see, until I caught the early clues of the paintings (before he showed me) and Deborah talking to herself. When the film changed into a hand-held horror film I still felt a little awkward watching a non-serious film on a serious subject...but I got over it.Yes the film was going along great and then it happened. the same thing that happens in all of these type of films which now passes for entertainment: Let's shoot in the dark/flashlight with a jerky camera and people shouting and screaming. Want to make it good? Pay the electric bill and mount the camera. I understand they invented this thing called a tripod.It is a good movie if you can handle the flashlight screaming and not being able to watch the film near the end. I can't.Guide: F-bomb. No sex. Nudity (Jill Larson aka Opal Cortlandt)

It was released a while ago, but I was not interested in the horrors, because they are not my kind. For an atheist, horror films are mostly a joke. I do like or enjoy watching them, but I do it very rarely. This is not one of that. Frankly, I don't know why all the horror films are same, but different cast, location and situation.If you have seen sufficient films in your life, then you would also find it nothing special. This a found-footage kind where a student making a thesis on an old woman with alzheimer. As usual, something goes wrong and all hell breaks loose. So finding the root cause and stopping it becomes the main task for all who are involved with it.I am sure those who watch films rarely might have more fun with it. I mean edgy moments with all the scares. From a new director with a decent cast. This is another title from the recent that to have a name Logan. Like all the horrors, this too ended with wide open, but so far there's no news about a sequel. I hope they won't make it. I did not enjoy it, but still you could if you are not my kind as I've explained.4/10

Keen to learn more about the disease that led to her grandfather's death, a PhD student convinces an elderly woman with Alzheimer's disease to be the subject of a documentary, but the student begins to wonder whether something supernatural is afoot as the old woman's behaviour grows stranger in this mystery thriller. While the notion of making a horror movie out of a real serious medical condition sounds a little wrong, 'The Taking of Deborah Logan' gets off to a solid start with the characters only noticing occasional odd things about her. Jill Larson is very good in the lead role too - particularly in her more lucid moments as she expresses concern about being filmed. The movie falls apart a bit in the second act though as a clear supernatural possession element is introduced, subtracting from the mystery of why she is acting so weirdly at night. The third act though is where the film really trips up and becomes very repetitive with characters constantly shrieking and so much unsteady and unfocused nighttime camera-work that it is hard to become immersed in the action. Indeed, this is one of those 'found footage' films that may have perhaps benefited from a more conventional stylistic approach. The eccentric, unexplained behaviour of the elderly is a fairly decent movie theme, but this entry does not always feel like it achieves its potential.

Mia, as part of her PhD thesis effort, arranges grant money to help Sarah Logan take care of her ailing mother Deborah. The condition for Sarah to get the money (and save the farm) is that Mia has to complete a film. The film is to document the sort of life that Deborah has because of her illness, and how Sarah is also affected. Gavin and Luis are Mia's techies, who are put down immediately and repeatedly as sub-humans. The representatives of medicine and law, Dr Nazir and Deputy Tweed, are both women.The early part of the movie includes results of medical testing of Deborah, and brief discussions of aspects of the disease that we think we understand. Some of the visual presentation here is fine.Deborah's disease progresses more rapidly than expected. The not so subtle horror clichés telegraph the general type of trouble to come. Is there something other than physical disease at work here?The film was easy to disengage from, and the ending did not seem well connected to the rest of the film.