The New Daughter
The New Daughteris a 2009 repugnance movie that ranks as Kevin Costner ’s only true excursion in the genre . During the peak of his life history , Kevin Costner was able to jump between heavy dramas and crowd - pleasing blockbusters with relative relief . Robin Hood : Prince Of ThievesandThe Bodyguardwere both major successes in the other ' 90s , and in between those projects he also come out in more anchor , weightier fare like Oliver Stone’sJFKorDances With Wolves , which Costner himself helmed .
Costner has a filmography littered with everything from dramatic event to romanticist comedies or even post - apocalyptic blockbusters likeWaterworld- whose " Ulysses Cut " is better . The star does n’t seem to be a crowing sports fan of repugnance though , as his output in the genre is relatively bare . Near the start of his calling he appeared in a small role in the justly forget slasherShadows operate Black , and subsequently on , gave a great operation in blemished psychological thrillerMr . Brooks . Neither could in truth be labeled a repugnance film , however , unlike Costner’sThe New Daughterfrom 2009 .
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Kevin Costner ’s repulsion movieThe New Daughtercast him as a recently divorced writer who incite into a raw sign of the zodiac with his teenaged girl and young son . Costner ’s John has lilliputian experience with being a parent and struggles to connect with his daughter ( Ivana Baquero , who playedPan ’s Labyrinth’sOfelia ) . While he initially puts that down to her becoming a adolescent , he soon realizes her changes are unite to a strange mound near their home , and that a race of cryptical beings that live underground have selected her for a terrifying fate .
The New Daughteris unique simply for seeing Kevin Costner in traditional horror picture situations , from researching his new home base ’s saturnine past to leaping back from jumpscares . The meat of the movie is the human relationship between John and Louisa , with both get the trauma of divorce in their own way , and it ’s leisurely to suppose Costner saw the level as a family drama first and monster movie secondly . He givesThe New Daughtera house footing even in its sillier instant , but sadly , it does n’t quite ferment as a revulsion movie either .
The New Daughter -which has an ambiguous terminate -does have some in effect suspense , including Costner ’s John realizing the " mound walkers " are inside his home during the last . That say , it offers little that has n’t been seen before , and the creatures themselves are n’t peculiarly heavy , bearing a balmy resemblance to the mold creature fromResident Evil VII . Again , the novelty of Kevin Costner blasting horror moving-picture show teras with a shotgun givesThe New Daughtera unique hook , but the picture itself is too teetotal to be really chilling . The New Daughtermight be Kevin Costner ’s only horror motion picture , but if he ’s ever lure back to the genre , hopefully , it will be for something that leaves more of an notion .
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