The Painted

2024

Action / Horror / Thriller

12
IMDb Rating 4.9/10 10 1617 1.6K

curse based on short film based on short

Director

Sasha Sibley Photo
Sasha Sibley

Top cast

Jessica Ruth Bell Photo
Jessica Ruth Bell as Janice Elster
Carl Solomon Photo
Carl Solomon as Elderly Man
Time Winters Photo
Time Winters as Lawyer
Gary Poux Photo
Gary Poux as Steve
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786.14 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 11
1.58 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 10
1.43 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 25 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ShadowsBeneathTheLight 6 / 10

Good Start - Weak Ending

The idea of souls trapped in paintings and thus haunting a house wherever the paints go is pretty unique. It's that classic horror of "the paintings move/eyes follow me" that surprisingly is rarely seen in horror films. The story of how the painting became possessed by a demon was also pretty good, although it took a lot of expiation during the final third of the movie to finally catch the audience up. And the character development of the kids was also decent. Usually a movie will just show some basic family drama with little to no resolution, or they just magically get along at the very end. Here tho there is clear animosity from the older teenage daughter towards her much younger sister (cliche sure), but as the movie develops we see them not only start to repair their relationship but by the end actually the older daughter takes on a much more nurturing relationship towards her little sister. So props to the movie having some actual character development. The movie is also set in the 1960s which, while it never really shows this era well beyond a few scenes, it at least removes the problem of having cell phones, internet etc of the modern era.Where the movie misses marks for me are the parents, aka the actual main characters. For some reason this movie had to follow the modern trope of making the dad a jerk and sex obsessed while making the mom the universal victim despite being the least caring woman on the planet. And the sad thing is the dad actually does a lot to protect his kids while his wife is always gone doing her own thing, yet somehow we are still meant to see him as the bad guy. And to have him randomly just shout during a normal conversation with zero provocation is just unhinged on the writers part. People don't act like that.If the writers got their heads out of their you know what, this could've been a solid flick.
Reviewed by kwally-13962 5 / 10

Not that bad!

Reviewed by cwlee-nyc 6 / 10

The plot is pretty much paint by numbers

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