Incarnate (2016)

[Chaotic]

INCARNATE Official Trailer (2016) Aaron Eckhart, Carice van Houten Horror Movie - YouTube

[Pounder]

For every good movie Aaron Eckhart does, he does about 4 bad ones.

[P-Rock]

Looks like another standard by-the-books exorcism movie. Yawn.

[Chaotic]

Atleast its not a girl being possessed this time.

Eckhart has the Thomas Jane hair going on.

[Pieter V]

Studio: High Top Releasing
Rating: PG-13
Feature Run Time: 01:26:30
End Credit Offset: -00:07:15
Credit Start Time: 01:19:15

[MazeRunner]

This looks terrible. I'm surprised it has a 25% on RT. Was this filmed 2 years ago? The kid on Gotham looks super young here, same with The Darkness earlier this year.

[GasmaskAvenger]

Just got back from seeing it.

Very middle of the road PG-13 movie. Wasn't good in any reasonable sense, but not awful either.

The single most bizarre aspect of it, however, was getting a trailer for "The Neon Demon" many, many months after the fact (especially since it's been available on blu-ray since September).

[UFAlien]

I was the only one at my showing today. Not an especially good movie and not really scary at all, but at least it was an interesting twist on the exorcism subgenre. Oddly I got the feeling it might've worked better as a comic book.

[Demented D]

I can tell by the trailer that I wouldn't watch this movie for free. It just screams mediocrity.

[DJR662]

It certainly sounds like it has potential and the trailer got me interested, not something I would want to see on the big screen though.

[CrowFan]

It looks so bad. I hope for good news, but I don't expect it.

[Holmes]

On the surface, Incarnate is a novel variation on the demonic-possession sub-genre—a paralyzed scientist (Aaron Eckhart) enters his patients' subconscious minds, Inception-style, to convince them to liberate themselves from paranormal, parasitic entities—but the execution largely falls short of the concept's potential. A few instances of dreadful computer-generated imagery excepted, director Brad Peyton (San Andreas) stages the shadow-veiled, mostly apartment-bound action with a journeyman's competency, but he does not possess the vivid and wild imagination required to capitalize on the neat idea of rendering a demon-distorted, labyrinthine mind as a physical space. He sets each mental incursion in a single place—a nightclub, a fairground—when a delirious, Escher-esque approach to space and time is called for. Peyton should have more closely studied the style and tone of past films which presumably inspired his own, including Altered States and The Cell. Despite this dearth of invention, the film is modestly involving from scene to scene, and it benefits from the charisma and gravitas of its leading man. Since his blistering performance in In the Company of Men almost 20 years ago, Eckhart has flirted time and time again with the A list (a few high-profile nominations here, a key role in a superhero epic there) without ever finding a permanent place on it, but the conviction and thousand-yard-stare intensity he brings to even a low-budget, in-and-out genre exercise is admirable.

C+

[Yeti4928]

This was filmed way back in 2013.

[stephenharrod]

Jesus what happaned Eckhart..

[mwynn]

Had to bring this back up after finally watching it.

Movies have a lot of silly stuff in them. I think this movie should win some prizes for how goofy it is.

Two dead bodies in a home, and no police investigation.
Keeping someone locked in a tank for reasons.
Artificial time limits.
The guy in the wheel chair heads off to collect the deus ex Machina.

Just a silly movie, that looks like it was chopped to bits in editing.

[Here2Learn]

just watched it less than an hour ago...

It was OK, not great. It is not worth a rewatch.

[An4h0ny]

Originally Posted by Holmes

On the surface, Incarnate is a novel variation on the demonic-possession sub-genre—a paralyzed scientist (Aaron Eckhart) enters his patients' subconscious minds, Inception-style, to convince them to liberate themselves from paranormal, parasitic entities—but the execution largely falls short of the concept's potential. A few instances of dreadful computer-generated imagery excepted, director Brad Peyton (San Andreas) stages the shadow-veiled, mostly apartment-bound action with a journeyman's competency, but he does not possess the vivid and wild imagination required to capitalize on the neat idea of rendering a demon-distorted, labyrinthine mind as a physical space. He sets each mental incursion in a single place—a nightclub, a fairground—when a delirious, Escher-esque approach to space and time is called for. Peyton should have more closely studied the style and tone of past films which presumably inspired his own, including Altered States and The Cell. Despite this dearth of invention, the film is modestly involving from scene to scene, and it benefits from the charisma and gravitas of its leading man. Since his blistering performance in In the Company of Men almost 20 years ago, Eckhart has flirted time and time again with the A list (a few high-profile nominations here, a key role in a superhero epic there) without ever finding a permanent place on it, but the conviction and thousand-yard-stare intensity he brings to even a low-budget, in-and-out genre exercise is admirable.

C+

This is a perfect capsule review.

I actually enjoyed this. It rips off several films but does it fairly effectively.

The cinematography and acting are surprisingly good, mostly.

I wouldn't watch it again but it wasn't terrible.

Mostly.