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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I watched because it's in German and I can confirm that this film is excellent for German listening practice. The dialogue was extremely simple and brief so it was very easy to follow. I watched with German subtitles for any dialogue I might miss and I barely needed them.So that's one reason why it's not so great as a film; the script.What I liked was that the plot unfolded in a much more realistic way than I expected (I won't expand because I don't want to include spoilers) however, the various techniques employed to constantly remind viewers of the tag lines was fairly amateur: certain phrases kept being repeated and the entire film has been done 1000 times before.I didn't like Mina Tander in the lead. Her acting was by-the-numbers and she just didn't have much charisma in this film. By that I mean, she didn't stand out. It didn't help that Laura de Boer was, in contrast, extremely charismatic and natural. I didn't believe the friendship between the two; their scenes felt very forced as did their smiles however, the acting was fine for the most part.Since watching Wir sind die Nacht, I'm now a big fan of Max Riemelt but he does need to work on becoming a different person in his films as I've seen him use the same acting techniques and facial expressions in a few of his films now (e.g. Die Welle).Overall, it's an average ghost story with one (or two) surprises but nothing new. It's perfect for those looking for German language films and people with a bit of time to kill who like typical ghost stories.5.8/10

It's a dark suspense thriller about two women which were best friends when they were kids and now they meet again, passed all these years. As child they used to spend some holidays in a small isolated island near the mainland, and now they meet again they decide to spend some days there one more time, to remember the old days…Everything goes fine until one of them see a photo where there're both of them and one third little girl she didn't remember… Maria! It's atmospheric, dark, in a mood of a ghost story, and it has suspense until the end, where there's a nice twist in the plot. The setting and the soundtrack are quite good too in order to create a dark and atmospheric story. I appreciated it mostly because of the ambiance created. I score it 8/10.

Du Hast Es Versprochen is a really well-constructed horror film that constantly keeps you on edge and has you question what is real and what isn't. It evolves from being a ghost story to a psychological thriller and finally becomes a really unique movie where (finally!) the answer to the mystery is not due to something supernatural but can also be explained rationally, which is exactly what makes it even scarier. The director used music, interesting shots and colours to make the atmosphere more and more eerie as we go on and the excellent acting made the audience take different sides during the film, taking it in turns to doubt one or the other. The secondary characters not only add to the mystery, but contribute in making the island even more disquieting. We never know who to trust and we only find out the truth at the very end, when the island has become claustrophobic and the film has evolved into a nightmare, and that is when the director cleverly changes everything by revealing something new and unexpected, that also makes the whole story assume a completely different light.The film starts with Hanna as a child telling a story of a little girl who was trapped in a hole in the forest and was waiting for another child to take her place, trying to lure little girls and make them go play with her, so she could trap them forever and be free. The story is obviously made up to scare the other girls, but it assumes a series of different meanings as the film evolves and we start questioning it, and we only find out at the end whether it was true or not. The ghost of the little girl is a constant presence in the film, but things aren't always what they look like. The story Hanna made up as a child will become really important at the end, leaving us feeling the same way we felt when the film started, only with a better understanding of the truth. In a way, the journey we begin when Hanna goes back to the island takes us back to the start at the very end, as we discover who the little girl is. In a way, the story little Hanna told to scare her friends will become reality, but not in the way she meant it as a child.When Hanna finds out who the little girl trapped in the hole is and who will take her place it will be too late to break the circle. The ending of the film was inevitable since the very beginning, but the story is true in a more grown-up, scary way that has nothing to do with ghosts and is, for this reason, much more disquieting.That is exactly why I loved the film: as scary and mysterious as it is, it is not a typical horror story and the elements of the supernatural appear and disappear again at different points. The characters are introduced in a clever way, and the mystery around the figure of Maria helps adding confusion and giving it the blurry sense that we get when we are trying to remember something that happened a long time ago and that we have forgotten about. It is not only Hanna's (and Clarissa's) journey that we witness, it is our own journey too. Just like her, there are so many things that we don't know about our childhood, so many possibilities as to what could have happened to us in the past. The film explores a lot of issues, including guilt, revenge, anger, hysteria, love, truth and lies, obsession, memory, depression and explores the very essence of friendship. It looks into the past and shows its reflection on the future. It explores the way people's pasts makes them what they are now, and this why the nightmare never ends.Just like in a circle, the characters are all connected between each other, and each of them changes and influences the other, making them what they are. This can be noticed immediately in the figure of Lea, who not only helps explore the whole idea of innocence that we associate children with, but who will also put all the pieces of the puzzle together at the end, becoming the centre of the whole story. She is a product of what somebody else's past made her, and just like for her mother, she is already doomed as the ending of the film (and her mother's story) marks the very beginning of her own story. In the end, the film doesn't give us any answer, but raises a series of questions instead. What if the meaningless things we did when we were little have repercussions on the future? Can our childhood condemn us and influence our whole life? Can something that we don't even remember doing come back to haunt us?

Im an Australian traveling around Europe at the moment and I went with some friends to go an see this movie as a sneak preview. I speak a little bit of German but the movie was very well produced and even though there was little dialog (Therefore I could understand most of it) it still came out as a great movie! I highly recommend going to see it, because I was trying to figure out the movie the whole time and then i didn't see the end coming. A really good movie and I definitely recommend going to see it when it comes out, I'm even going to go and see it a second time when its released. This movie though will make most people, apart from the hardened and soulless people out there, jump. There were many points in which the whole cinema jumped and even one young woman had to leave because she was too frightened. Definitely go and watch this movie, highly recommendable. Kudos to the producers! The amount of swearing involved is minimal, and there's nothing too gory, but i wouldn't recommend it for people under 12 unless accompanied by someone who can 'protect' them.And guys, take your girlfriends, they'll want you to hold them tight during this one!