Review: Nocturne

 

   

    Hello, Everybody! Today, I posted a review of the new Amazon Original movie, Nocturne. The fourth and last movie of "Welcome to the Blumhouse". 

In this latest Blumhouse horror film, Nocturne is about two fraternal twins, Juliet and Vivian who go to an elite arts academy and Juliet begins to outshine Vivian when she discovers mysterious sheet music to belonged to a dead classmate.

This movie was better than "The Lie" in terms of great performances. Particularly, Sydney Sweeney shined in this challenging role. Just by her facial expressions you can easily tell that Juliet is going down a very dark path of insanity. It even outshines the movie's very flawed screenplay. While I can also easily defend it just because it's Zu Quirke's directorial debut.

If movies like Whiplash and Black Swan taught us anything it's that music studies are a living hell and they take a very drastic and mental toll on Juliet. When the notebook takes a hold of Juliet, it forces her to do more evil bidding like causing Vi to injure her arm, thus losing her Julliard scholarship in the process. Sweeney's performance spans many levels of both saboteur and limp-hearted.

And this was an obvious rip-off of Black Swan! The similarities are clearly there.

As the story unfolds however, its story becomes predictable rather than scary despite its psychedelic visuals. The script was very half-baked and never goes beyond its PG-13 levels of horror and the ending wasn't as emotional as it intended. 

I wasn't really satisfied with this movie, but I did enjoy Sydney Sweeney in this movie. I think she's a great actress, she was fantastic in Everything Sucks! and is currently in HBO's Euphoria. 

I'll give this movie a 3/5.

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