Yeah, toss a bunch of mismatched horror movie clichés at the screen and let the good god lazy viewers sort it out. No reason to make a cohesive picture that survives the dramatic twist… just keep adding in plots and conspiracies until you reach the designated runtime and then quit.

The Twin is about a mother and father who have lost one of their sons to an auto accident. They have moved to a small town in the country to grieve… only the surviving twin is acting funny, the townsfolk are acting funny, the dad is acting funny, the old lady neighbor is acting funny, and the only thing not acting funny is this grim, sour movie.

The flick can’t decide what kind of horror movie it want to be. Is it an evil twin movie? A ghost twin? A gaslighting husband thriller? A folk horror movie? A cult movie? Something supernatural? Something something insanity? Roll a die and it’ll change from minute to minute.

That would be cool if it felt like there was a cohesive script that glued it all together. But there isn’t. Once they reveal the (somewhat cliché) truth, the movie doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. Everything they’ve shown us to that point doesn’t really work… not all of it… not combined. Unless you just wave your hands about and declare it’s all in the mom’s mind. That’d solve every plot hole.

It gets a little credit for acting and cinematography and even a little for what’s becoming a disturbing amount of monotone music in horror movies this year. Getting a little tired of horror movies trying to elevate themselves without having the goods.

This just wasn’t a very good movie. I kind of respect the attempt, but they needed to spend more time at the writer’s desk making all this mish-mash congeal into a consistent pudding (or set of ideas).

Score: 64