The Taking of Deborah Logan
The Taking of Deborah Logan
R | 21 October 2014 (USA)
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What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising events begin to plague the family and crew and an unspeakable malevolence threatens to tear the very fabric of sanity from them all.

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andreakaralic-24952

Well, I didn't see the trailer for it but I liked the poster for this movie, that's why I watched. :D Although this movie seemed interesting because what happens to Deborah is a real deal(at first) because she seems to have Alzheimer's disease. And then crap happens. It turns out not to be Alzheimer's and she goes nuts. Everybody else goes nuts because movie is repetitive. Deborah goes out at night and just walks like a ghost. Nobody knows where's Deborah at. And everybody's yelling her name, and out of fear, each other's name. I started to laugh at one point and Deborah started to get on my nerves. LIKES: Anne Ramsay's acting. She seemed natural and easy-going. Real.The idea of Alzheimer's in horror movie.Jill Larson as an odd looking old lady who I imagined in real life having her cup of tea and being a cruel but sophisticated grandma.DISLIKES: repetitiveness: it's like you're going through deja vu whenever night falls.so much going on: at first Deborah's problem is Alzheimer's, then you think she might be possessed by a demon, then you find out that demon might not be a demon but a ghost but then again was that man she killed a ghost or is she just mad? did she really kill that man or was it that neighbor? wtf.

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arthurwade-18694

Docu films are passe and even if they aren't they should be exceptionally well made- which The Taking of Deborah Logan is not. At least Paranormal activity managed to be scary but this film proves that the home video/documentary horror should be buried six feet under. (Avoid it and rent The Exorcist instead).

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Michael Ledo

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)

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AshmoreFilm

This movie was a total disaster. The performances were Beyond melodramatic. The plot was totally predictable and the characterizations (especially that of the big scary dead French serial killer/serpent) were entirely infantile. If horror fans on Rotten Tomatos are giving this 5 stars ... And IMDb gave it 6/10 ... Then horror fans must be extremely hungry for something worthwhile. Another typical Point of View Camera film for shock value. No true cinematic girth at all.The Taking of Deborah Logan is a 2014 American horror film and the feature film directorial debut of Adam Robitel, written by Robitel and co-writer Gavin Heffernan. The film stars Jill Larson, Anne Ramsay, and Michelle Ang.[1] Set in Virginia, it tells the story of a documentary crew making a film about Alzheimer's patients who uncover something sinister while documenting a woman who suffers from the disease.[2] The film was produced by Jeff Rice and Bryan Singer and was released on October 21, 2014.

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