Daniel Isn't Real, but the smart, stylish fun waiting for genre lovers in this well-acted suspense thriller is completely genuine. A fair movie that will keep you engaged till the end. It's worth watching, good storyline, casting was good, directing was really good and maybe helped garner the rating for me, special effects were even fairly good, one scene in particular and several others were close.
This movie took me by surprise, I started watching it expecting your average "spooky story" but Daniel is so much more. Parents need to know that Daniel Isn't Real is a horror movie about an imaginary friend that turns out to be evil. There's graphic violence, including The movie (based on a novel by Brian DeLeeuw) isn't particularly original, but it does manage some memorably horrific imagery and keeps up a strong pace.
SXSW Film Review: 'Daniel Isn't Real'. A "imaginary" childhood friend returns with malignant intent in this inventive psychological-horror thriller. With Luke by now medicated, manipulated and manic, "Daniel Isn't Real" has already developed a hallucinogenic edge before an attempted exorcism of. The problem with Daniel Isn't Real is that it wants it both ways in terms of mental health. You get the sense that Mortimer and his co-writer Brian Still, Sasha Lane, so brilliant in Andrea Arnold's American Honey, is no one's idea of a horror-movie damsel, feistily fighting back rather than running and. Starring: Miles Robbins, Andrew Bridges, Chukwudi Iwuji and others.
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Producer: Daniel Noah, Elijah Wood, Josh C. Daniel Isn't Real is another horror movie from Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah's production house, SpectreVision, the company that brought us Mandy, The Greasy Strangler and most recently, The Color Out of Space. It is the second feature from director Adam Egypt Mortimer and is based on the novel In.
If the thriller "Daniel Isn't Real" were a recipe, it would call for unappealing ingredients — psychiatric stereotypes, jumpy editing, a mopey protagonist — simmered This movie follows lonely Luke from childhood, beginning when his father abandons his volatile mother, Claire (Mary Stuart Masterson). Daniel himself, a consistently toxic, sinister presence, reduces a complex and wide-ranging topic to an individualised threat — a supernatural being that needs to be locked away or Dull and often exploitative, Daniel Isn't Real coasts on the familiar faces of its lead actors while wasting their potential. My review of Daniel Isn't Real, a movie based on the concept of imaginary friends that combines supernatural, psychological and body horror. There are two reasons behind it: the first one.