You can forgive certain things like the unoriginal story - you can discern similarities with Candyman (which is being rebooted) and the Slenderman urban myth and reality. I was enjoying the film and the story until this point. However, at the end of the film, not only are we told Lily is alive and who she is but that Marina's psychiatrist knew about her all along. Even Marina's sister, Alice, mentions it in an argument. Next, we see newspaper headlines and internet postings about the murder. There's a scene between Will and Marina where Will brings up the murder. Our heroine Marina and her friend Rebecca murdered her. From the start of the story, we are told Lily is dead. Done correctly, it would help to ease the atrocious ending. After choosing one of these, he could've threaded in elements of the other. The main storyline needed to be a thriller or a monster movie not both. Writer and director Owen Egerton does a splendid job of telling the tale of Mercy Black. Okay, I'm going to get straight to the worst part of the movie. Reviewed by Stephen_A_Abell 6 / 10 Mercy Black. What she discovers is a very real and very deadly horror that will stop at nothing to claim her and her nephew. To save him, Marina must face her past and uncover the truth behind Mercy Black. Though she would rather leave the past buried, her nephew becomes increasingly obsessed with Mercy Black. Marina is haunted by what she has done and the phantom she imagined. But in the years since her crime, the myth of Mercy Black has gone viral inspiring internet rumors, stories, and even copycat crimes. She's being released from psychiatric care to live with her sister and young nephew. We get the routine sequences we know: a completely pointless bath scene, because we need to put the pretty lead actress in a suggestive nude scene for no reason, the ‘don’t do that’ moment… the scares are so by the book you know the exact moment the jump is meant to happen.Fifteen years after stabbing a classmate to conjure an imaginary phantom known as Mercy Black, Marina Hess is coming home. Mercy Black is a horror, so we do need to look at the question: does it scare us? The simple answer is no. We get the bigger name draw in Janeane Garofalo, who barely gets any screen time, with Miles Emmons as the nephew being the strongest of the poor cast. It is always hard to say an actor does a bad job with characters that have little development about them, and Daniella Pineda really doesn’t get a chance to do anything with her leading role. The final big weakness in the story comes from the pace because we jump between what happened with Marina as a child, through her memories, but it happens so often we just don’t get the time to invest in the present-time moments. We do have a scene where we focus on somebody who has been researching Mercy Black, but this ends up going nowhere either, almost forgotten. You will end up feeling like there was a lot more to come from this movie, because the characters are not developed very well at all. We can praise the attempts to try and create something new because an original idea is what we call for, but the problem with this idea is that it gets stuck in the middle of two options, never letting either pay off to an effective level. Mercy Black has a story which decides to capitalize on the idea that people can make an urban legend more than they are, a lot like Slender Man tried to do last year, only Mercy Black is a newly created urban legend which is what many horror stories are built upon. Marina must figure out if Mercy Black is real or not before the spread of the name takes over her life with her nephew Bryce (Miles Emmons) becoming interested in the story. Unknown to Marina, the name Mercy Black has become a viral sensation with copycat killers out there, all because of Marina’s story. Marina is released to her sister Alice (LaMont) as she looks to start a life for the first time. Ward (Garofalo) who has spent this time helping her through the ideas that made her create Mercy. 15-years-later Marina (Pineda) is being released by Dr. Young Marina gets led down a dark path which saw her stab a classmate, to conjure a phantom known as ‘Mercy Black’. Mercy Black starts with the warning of ‘Do you know Mercy? Do you know her Name? She’ll take away your hurt if you promise her your pain’. Mercy Black is directed by Owen Egerton ( Bloodfest) and stars Daniella Pineda ( Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), Janeane Garofalo ( Mystery Men), Elle LaMont ( Alita: Battle Angel) and Austin Amelio ( The Walking Dead) and is a horror film, trying to copy the urban legend ideas of Slender Man. Mercy Black is a by-the-book horror film that tries to create a new urban legend figure but completely fails to do so.
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