More than other genres, horror fans have to deal with an inordinate amount of terrible films. The staggering amount of horror that is released, only to fall into the bottomless pit of Netflix is truly astonishing. So, it’s with some trepidation that one might approach their newest original release, “Eli.” Falling squarely into two the well-worn sub-categories of haunted hospitals and children with premonitions, director Ciarán Foy’s film is slightly scary, featuring a number of effective jump scares, but ultimately derivative rehash of other better films, until it gets to its truly go-for-broke ending, which either saves or completely destroys the film (more on that later).

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Following his 2012 feature-length directorial debut “Citadel” and his 2015 sequel installment “Sinister 2,” which was the follow-up to Scott Derrickson’s Ethan Hawke-led original, Irish writer-director Ciarán Foy is now making his third return to the director’s chair with “Eli” – and we just got our first trailer for the project, though it’s been completed forever and delayed for almost a year (originally supposed to hit January 2019).

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