Biography of the Brahms doll

The heroine is one, in the dark, suddenly stumbles upon someone, and so that we do not miss this heartbreaking moment, they tell us the sound that we need to be afraid here! It can be a screech of a violin, a screech of the main character, a metal blow to a frying pan a la Brad Fidel or the sound of the open-up of the heavenly beads in the understanding of a stagnant sound engineer.

How did the creators of the classics imagine such a moment? Without hints! The heroine shuddered, we are with her, but only a little.

Because we knew that this is not the main dish. Because the directors knew how to scare us without devils from a snuffbox. Because the unknown is worse than the most vile computer monster, jumping on us from the darkness in 3D !!! And finally someone remembered about it! Greta Evans, an American with her skeletons in a closet and a mental trauma in the recent past, comes to a dull English hinterland in order to work as a nanny in an old mansion.

The elderly couple is strange, the boy Brahms, which she has to look after, turns out to be a terrible doll, but the money is not bad, the house is beautiful, and a pretty shopkeeper from the nearest village frankly stands eyes. Not the worst option to kill time and heal mental wounds. What can go wrong? The classic history of horrors is, in fact, “morality”, in the manner of terrible children's fairy tales.

The trend of the latest cinema forces, where heroes, scriptwriters and directors carries where it got without a steering wheel and without windbreak, “doll” contrasts a truly British restraint and a clear three -chuck structure. The roots of the film are growing from classic Gothic novels, something like “rotation of the screw” and the stories of Montagu James. Judge for yourself: a girl, one, in a huge empty house that hides a terrible secret, looks after an unusual child.

Yes, the action takes place today, and the boy turns out to be a doll, but is it so important? What are fairy tales characteristic? They give the heroes a simple condition: you will fulfill it - get a reward, break it - you will receive a punishment. Remember the Blue Beard? Here are the keys to all the doors, but there is one that cannot be opened. If Greta remembered this archetype, she would clearly not have a damn about the list of instructions compiled by the eccentric parents of Brahms.

Have you forgotten the boy to put his favorite plate to the boy? I didn’t put it to bed and did not kiss before going to bed? Well, for starters, looking for missing clothes! How about the midnight excursion to the attic? Brahms, although toy, but capricious. With fairy tales and Gothic novels, the film is also related to another classic element - the dreams of the main character.

The doll steals the film of the same name by the actors, without question. Sorry for a joke on the anger of the day, but the toy Brams is worthy of Oscars no less than the long -suffering DiCaprio. William Brent Bell - the director of the middle hand, and for the “obsessed” hand, he generally wanted to tear off in all seriousness so that he would not take off such a slag, but then he applied a brilliant move.

At least we do not see this. Cleaned by a clown from Poltergeist and Billy from Dead Silence, the audience is waiting for him to turn his head, tremble with his hand, but at least blink! However, no, all metamorphoses remain behind the scenes! So he sits, not moving, on a kitchen chair, but it is worth turning away - and he is already at the other end of the room. How can you not recall the “ghost of the house on the hill” of Robert Wise, when the main character and we were so thinly scared with her that it was just right to think about whether some kind of devilry was going on in the house or are it hallucinations of a woman brought to hysteria?

The heroes are worth talking separately. Not in the sense that they commit reasonable acts, but in the sense that all their actions are explained. Having learned about the past, we understand why she does not run away from a terrible doll. Milyaga Malcolm does not give up a friend who fell into an inadequate in a psychiatric hospital, because he is in love with his ears.

Yes, and it is difficult not to believe the pretty girl when you see with your own eyes how the doll you just put to sleep is on the other end of the house. Even the parents of Brahms can be understood: parental feelings and grief push people and not to such madness. This favorably distinguishes the “doll” from the recent “forest of ghosts” when you looked at the heroes who had just been quite adequate adults, and restrained so as not to fascinate “What are you doing, idiot ka!

Well, we will separately praise Lauren Kohen: not that the actress gives out an outstanding performance, but her Greta turned out to be pretty and bold, it is not ashamed to worry about her, although here you can notice a certain paraphrase of the recent “crimson peak”. A good horror film distinguishes one feature from the bad: even when you begin to understand what the matter is being driven about, you still have two or three options that this story can end, each of which has the right to exist.

Does the ghost of Brahms really live in a doll? Is the roof of the main character going? Or it overtook her past.When a third, uninvited, participant appears in a carefully played play for two people and one doll, the atmosphere becomes so dense that you catch yourself thinking that you have held your breath, although nothing terrible on the screen seems to happen.

This is a expectation. This, damn it, Saspens! You are our dear, how we miss you! Yes, the film does not open new horizons. Yes, the third act turned out to be rather hectic. Yes, in some places there are not enough explanation. But this is the case when light disabilities do not cause irritation, because we can well fill the missing plot bricks on our own, all the tools are already in our hands.

And it is worth praising the extremely restrained use of “BU-MAKS”: compared to the “Woman in Black”, similar in the subject, they are quite small here, and they are presented with restraint, without unnecessary special effects, in the style of, for example, “Halloween” by John Carpenter. The film is overtaken by fear of an atmosphere of unknown, incredited. The scene "Let's be friends" generally turned out to be a sight for sore eyes.

Bottom line: in our hands it turned out to be surprisingly a holistic psychological horror, who for once takes on “scummers”, and a competently created atmosphere. And for this, many thanks to the creators! And a sudden jump as the work of William Bell can be explained simply: this is the first film to which neither he nor his constant co -author Matthew Peterman, they had a hand as screenwriters.

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