The Taking

The Taking of Deborah Logan is another possession movie. In that regard you can expect to see the same possession type actions that you'd see in any other possession movie. The Taking of Deborah Logan is done in found-footage or documentary style. Again, you can expect the viewing experience to be the same as any other found-footage/documentary style film. Yet, I still found it entertaining. Deborah Logan (Jill Larson) is an elderly woman that is suffering from the onset of Alzheimer's disease. In order to help keep the house and pay for medical care her daughter agrees to have a team film her. Everything that happens after that is textbook possession stuff but somehow it was different with an old lady. I think the child possession was too overplayed so they went in a slightly different direction. There was a mystery element to it: who, why, how to stop it? Of course there were your jump scares, but there was an overriding creepiness to it that was directly linked to Deborah Logan's age. When someone so old, fragile and withering starts clawing at herself or disrobing it just looks so much more eerie. No one wants to see an old lady naked and no one wants to see an old lady peeling her skin off. Aah! I just got the heeby jeebies just thinking about it. Considering this movie wasn't very unique it was done well enough and it just separated itself enough to stand on its own.

Greetings from Lithuania. "The Taking" (2014) is a horror movie, but not particularly scary. It has old but cool idea, which could have been produced better. "The Taking" has some nice moments, but they are far and in between. The acting was OK. Directing was also OK. Overall, this a "first person" kinda found footage type of a horror flick. The premise is not bad, and the movie itself isn't bad, but it could have been so much better. It started promising, but by the end i didn't really care what will happen to anyone in this picture. All in all this is not the best not the worst flick out there - but i couldn't recommend it.