A Tale of Two Sisters

There are only so many plots for horror movies. Horror enthusiasts can rattle them off like sports fans can rattle off the starting line-up of their favorite team, and we know which ones do the formulas well, which ones do nothing but the formula, and which ones try to gussy it up with bells and whistles. A Tale Of Two Sisters, sadly, falls into the third category. It is an absolutely lovely movie to look at. It is superbly acted. But as soon as you see that the story revolves around a young woman who is a former patient in a psychiatric hospital going home with her family, you'll have a pretty good idea where it goes. Tale's positives aren't enough to distract from the script revisiting well-trodden ground a hundred movies have walked before, and adding nothing new to it. It does nothing wrong per se, but it also does nothing you haven't seen, and that's maybe worse. I'd rather it have taken some ambitious swings and mess up than play it so safe, the movie feels like a remake.