I STILL SEE YOU

THIS supernatural thriller starring Bella Thorne and Dermot Mulroney should provide glossaries to the audience. Depicting a society in which ghosts walk among the living after an apocalyptic disaster, the film freely indulges in the use of terms like The Event, Energy Wave, Spectrum Transference and Remnants (“Rems” for short, try to keep up). I Still See

You is painful to watch, and having to learn all the new jargon only makes it feel like an academic chore.

Thorne plays Veronica, a high school pupil living in a small Illinois town not far from Chicago, where The Event occurred 10 years earlier.

The Event created an Energy

Wave that killed much of the world’s population. The victims aren’t exactly gone, however. Their spectral Remnants linger on silently, as if they don’t really know they’re dead. The result is a world in which we’re all like the little kid in The Sixth Sense.

Veronica has become used to the hovering, ghostly presence of her father every morning at the breakfast table, reading the newspaper. She’s more discomfited by the frequent appearances of a young, hunky Remnant (Thomas Elms) who shows up in her bathroom looking like an underwear model. Literally, because he’s wearing tight underwear.

This happens a lot because Veronica, like so many attractive young women in movies of this type, takes an inordinate number of showers. Like the other Remnants, this one doesn’t have anything to say. But he does seem to be imparting a warning when he writes the word “Run” on the bathroom mirror.

The plot involves a murdered young girl, a crazy scientist and a government conspiracy too convoluted and tiresome to fully relate to. The film is interminable in a sluggish pace. Viewers are less likely to be scared than that they should be taking notes.

| Hollywood Reporter