Else had all the ingredients for a really strong horror film. The central idea is genuinely interesting and the opening half shows real promise. There is enough mystery and tension early on to pull you in, and for a while it feels like the film is building towards something memorable.
Unfortunately, things start to fall apart in the second half. What begins with intrigue slowly loses energy, and the pacing drops off quite dramatically. It honestly felt like watching a Tom Daley Olympic dive straight into snoozeville. The story stops pushing forward and the tension that carried the first half never really returns.
The one thing that holds the film together is the visual horror. Some of the imagery is properly unsettling and creatively disturbing. As someone who loves the horror genre, those moments really worked for me. Even when the narrative struggled, the visuals still delivered the kind of discomfort and atmosphere you hope for from a horror film.
Overall, Else feels like a great idea that wasn’t executed as well as it could have been. A strong start, a disappointing second half, but still worth watching for fans of horror purely for its striking and genuinely horrific visuals.
