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A father and his daughter are haunted by the spirit of his vindictive ex-wife.
HORROR

Separation (2021)

Directed by William Brent Bell

Written by Nick Amadeus and Josh Braun

Starring Rupert Friend, Mamie Gummer, Brian Cox, Madeline Brewer, Violet McGraw, Simon Quarterman, Eric T. Miller

Connor Eyzaguirre
April 29, 2021
6/10
William Brent Bell should probably stop making horror films. He's yet to have a decent flick under his belt, from the godawful The Devil Inside to the much-aligned The Boy to the predictable trainwreck called Separation. I've seen this film so many times. I'm so goddamn tired of this film. Mainstream, big-budget ghost films are stuck in an endless loop. The same damn script keeps getting recycled, with different dead-end actors (and one big name as an anchor) and a slightly different creepy-faced ghost coupled with cheap, predictable scares and a twist we all saw coming a mile away. It's time to retire this horseshit.

Rupert Friend is woefully miscast as Jeff, a former comic book artist who hasn't had a job in three years and has been mooching off his uber-bitch wife and her rich family. Granted, she has grounds to be upset, but the lengths she goes to make sure he never sees his daughter again is pretty unrealistic. I mean, he's just unemployed. He's not a monster. But when she dies, Jeff is in the clear, and frankly, you don't feel bad for Maggie's (Gummer) death in the slightest. She's just the worst, and now she's a ghost who has the face of a creepy puppet for some reason. All the scares that come with her are lukewarm at best.

I felt that Brian Cox was underused, and was just there to be a thorn in Jeff's side for no legal reason. Jeff never shows a shimmer of emotion in any direction, and you end up with nobody to root for. As I said, I'm so tired of seeing this exact movie every year. Leave horror to the filmmakers with some imagination. There's so few of them left.

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