One thing I'll say for The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh is that it's still got me trying to figure out if I liked the ending or not which means at least it did something that made me think. That's quite a rare thing for a movie in this attention-deficit era.
The wrap up of TLWATORL is a curious thing. If you think about it enough afterward, it's actually quite a unique and brilliant concept; yet as it occurs it also feels unsatisfactory and a little like a cop-out in some ways too. I can't divulge more without spoilers.
Ending aside, the rest of the film is definitely competent and creepy. There are a couple of scenes that really raised my hackles and that's not easy to do. Aaron Poole carries the film pretty much by himself and while his performance isn't perfect, it's more than adequate. The set decoration is a little over the top - my wife and I joked that the house looked like one of those "found object" games you can buy for ten bucks at Walmart - but I'm not going to condemn a movie for its set decor. The one major criticism I will give is that a lot of the movie is narrated by the titular Rosalind Leigh rather than revealed in more subtle ways. I'm a fan of 'show don't tell' but this film is all tell.
Still, if you're in the mood for a slow burn creeper and don't have sky high expectations, TLWATORL will fill a couple of hours nicely. I would say that it's current IMDb score (5.2 at the time of writing) is just about dead on.
The wrap up of TLWATORL is a curious thing. If you think about it enough afterward, it's actually quite a unique and brilliant concept; yet as it occurs it also feels unsatisfactory and a little like a cop-out in some ways too. I can't divulge more without spoilers.
Ending aside, the rest of the film is definitely competent and creepy. There are a couple of scenes that really raised my hackles and that's not easy to do. Aaron Poole carries the film pretty much by himself and while his performance isn't perfect, it's more than adequate. The set decoration is a little over the top - my wife and I joked that the house looked like one of those "found object" games you can buy for ten bucks at Walmart - but I'm not going to condemn a movie for its set decor. The one major criticism I will give is that a lot of the movie is narrated by the titular Rosalind Leigh rather than revealed in more subtle ways. I'm a fan of 'show don't tell' but this film is all tell.
Still, if you're in the mood for a slow burn creeper and don't have sky high expectations, TLWATORL will fill a couple of hours nicely. I would say that it's current IMDb score (5.2 at the time of writing) is just about dead on.