A typical low budget British horror film, shot on the cheap in Latvia. Rutger Hauer contributes a cameo right at the tail-end of his career and GAME OF THRONES actor James Faulkner plays in support. There's some haunted house guff about a cursed piece of music but it's all very lethargic and lacking in basic ingredients.
The Sonata
2018
Action / Music / Mystery / Thriller
The Sonata
2018
Action / Music / Mystery / Thriller
Plot summary
After being informed of the sudden death of her long lost composer father, a young virtuoso violinist, Rose Fisher (Freya Tingley),inherits an old mansion in which he used to live. There, she discovers her father's final work: a mysterious music score marked with strange symbols. With the help of Charles Vernais (Simon Abkarian),her agent and manager, she deciphers the symbols and, little by little, starts to unlock secrets concerning her father's past, setting in motion the mechanisms of a somber plan imagined since the day she was born. They soon discover that there's more to the sonata in question than meets the eye which, when played, triggers and unleashes dark and terrifying forces.
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Rose Fisher (Freya Tingley) inherits the large manor of her estranged compose father Richard Marlowe (Rutger Hauer). She rummages through his belongings and discovers a sonata with strange markings. Together with her agent, they decipher the strange symbols on the sheet music.
This is not the first magical/evil composition film. With Rutger Hauer, the production had a 1950-1960's "Boris Karloff" feel to it. Unfortunately, the film spent too much time on a moody teen that could not carry the film by herself with the lame dialogue,
Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.
Do you like the sound of that?
Also are you ok with puns? I may have been way funnier than the entire movie put together. Although "funny" is in the eye of the beholder, but I don't expect anyone laughing more about or during the movie, than while "enjoying" my summary line. But that aside, this is a horror movie that while it is predictable (with jump scares and all),is decently done to say the least.
And I reckon one of the last movies Rutger Hauer did ... although I don't know with what pace he worked, so maybe he did quite a few more. Also he's not playing first fiddle here - is that just a German saying? Not sure how this translates, but the pun was worth it. The movie is predictable but was well done overall