Nocturne

 

Yay, I'm caught up! We'll see how long this lasts. I give it a couple days, tops. Anywho, today was the Blumhouse straight-to-Amazon movie Nocturne (a part of this Halloween quadruple feature thingy you've probably seen advertised everywhere). Now, Blumhouse is a mixed bag. There's some gems, like Get Out and Paranormal Activity, and steaming hunks of crap, like Fantasy Island  (which I've sadly seen) and Truth or Dare (still love that batshit ending though). Nocturne sort of falls in the middle somewhere.

Here's the goings-on in a nutshell: two twins are piano prodigies, but the younger (by a few minutes) sees her sister surpassing her. This spirals down to the jealous sister doing everything she can to usurp her. This includes making a pact with a sun demon thingy in a Tom Riddle-esque journal left behind by a previous student who committed suicide. Evidently spooky music schools are in vogue right now; looking at you, The Perfection.

Really though, despite some cool moments and interesting, well-made visuals, Nocturne falls pretty flat. The through line through the plot is pretty asinine with a lot of real convenient, completely contrived moments and nothing is particularly surprising. In fact, my wife pointed out that this is essentially a C-grade Black Swan, and hot damn is she right. It was reskinned enough that I didn't notice at first, but yeah... this is straight lifted. 

Consider this one thrown into the pile of horror movies I won't remember. 

5/10