{"id":29358,"date":"2018-10-29T17:31:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=29358"},"modified":"2018-10-29T17:31:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:31:02","slug":"the-taking-of-deborah-logan-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/29\/the-taking-of-deborah-logan-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>To its credit, \u201cThe Taking of Deborah Logan\u201d is a horror film that\u2019s generally remained in the public consciousness mainly for its memorable imagery. As a horror movie it\u2019s just an okay experience that probably would have been so much more effective as a filmed feature. In the end, it\u2019s mainly an okay found footage horror movie that comes out pretty golden mainly for two or three really memorable moments that have become internet memes and are still widely circulated to this day.<\/p>\n

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Mia, Gavin, and Luis are making a documentary about elderly woman Deborah Logan, who is suffering from Alzheimer\u2019s Disease. Though Deborah is hesitant, her daughter Sarah talks her in to filming the documentary for the sake of the money, to keep the house from being repossessed. As the crew delves in to Deborah\u2019s life, Deborah begins to exhibit odd behavior with her Alzheimers\u2019 prompting them to watch her closely. Before long, they realize something supernatural is happening with no relation to her deteriorating mental state. As Deborah grows even more violent, possessing weird habits and behavior, the crew and Sarah begin to investigate and realize she might be under the control of a horrific cult leader who worshipped snakes and sought out to sacrifice five virgins. As Deborah makes a play for a young girl named Cara suffering from terminal cancer, the group scrambles to find the pair and hopefully stop Deborah before the doctor\u2019s plan succeeds and pure evil is unleashed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Taking of Deborah Logan\u201d for such a creative and interesting premise only works half the time. While half of the film is a genuinely spooky and unnerving possession tale, Adam Robitel falls prey to the tropes of found footage movies. There are a ton of scenes where someone pops up out the side of a frame, or sneaks up behind someone, and it grows tiresome almost immediately. As a matter of fact once the entire movie builds up to the frantic climax, it\u2019s nothing but an amusement park horror ride of pop ups and jump scares, ending in a cheesy final scene. To make matters worse, the narrative takes leaps and bounds in logic that were distracting.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry, but no hospital in any corner in any of the world would allow a family to take their Alzheimer\u2019s stricken mom home, if they\u2019ve proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be a danger to themselves and dangerous to others. It\u2019s a ridiculous footnote in the narrative that dampens an otherwise okay movie. That said, you could do so much worse than \u201cThe Taking of Deborah Logan\u201d as it excels in some genuine suspense, as well as great imagery like Deborah attempting to consume her young victim like a snake. Robitel also has a lot of fun building tension with CCTV footage that helps build the terror. Jill Larson and Anne Ramsay are also quite excellent in their respective roles, the former of whom perfectly portrays the titular Logan\u2019s turn from Alzheimer\u2019s patient to pure demonic terror. \u201cThe Taking of Deborah Logan\u201d doesn\u2019t re-invent the wheel, but for a quick horror fix, it goes down well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To its credit, \u201cThe Taking of Deborah Logan\u201d is a horror film that\u2019s generally remained in the public consciousness mainly for its memorable imagery. As a horror movie it\u2019s just an okay experience that probably would have been so much more effective as a filmed feature. In the end, it\u2019s mainly an okay found footage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[275,276,302,370,477,703,793,897,1008,1087],"class_list":["post-29358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-demonic","tag-demons","tag-drama","tag-found-footage","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-possession","tag-satanic","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29360,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29358\/revisions\/29360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}