Things Seen And Heard (2021)

One eye is sufficient for this long and tedious supernatural thriller set in "Headless Horseman" country where husband George, an academic, and wife Catherine Clare, an art restorer, move into a haunted fixer-upper, but the presence of ghosts, the ghosts' supernatural connection to these living counterparts, and local legends about the house's murderous past do not seem to impact very importantly on the things happening in the real world between George and Catherine and in fact just seem to obfuscate, like so many other horror movies do, the reprehensible behaviour of men.

★★☆☆☆

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Flatliners (2017)

Surely when tasked with remaking the 1990 horror thriller Flatliners, your only job is to use new cinetechnology to update the spectacle of the afterlife, but in Niels Arden Oplev's moribund morality tale, death is about as out-of-reach an experience as a Red Balloon motorcycle ride or a swim-with-the-jellyfish gift voucher and by the end of the movie it is revealed the afterlife doesn't even bear upon the crises being experienced by this self-centred and super-dull group of med students.

★☆☆☆☆

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