Reviews

Every so often you come across a movie that no-one really saw or knows about, received little or no critical acclaim and it blows your socks off, its great to be surprised like that sometimes and this is one of those films for me.

I should start by saying writer/director Jeffrey Haley should give up the day job of camera tech and do the film creating gig for real.

Great script, great cast, fans of Winona Ryder's cleavage will have a field day here.

Seriously though, this is very offbeat with a taboo subject but there are a few laugh out loud scenes here, mostly thanks to ray romano. I've always like wes bentley as an actor, he's perfect for dark roles and I liked the idiosyncracies like for example not having a car in LA.

the only slight disappointment is the "hollywood" happy ending but the way it followed romano's dream to a tee was so well executed and OTT, it didn't detract from the movie for me.

No Eli Roth, no eastern European gangsters or Slovakian death chambers, the action is all in the good ol' USA, sin city lives up to its name.

I really liked the first two movies and was a bit reticent about how this makeover would be with a new production team but this did not disappoint at all. Right from the opening scene, it was full of twists, the Ukranian couple were victims, not stalkers of course and all the way through, u didn't know where or when the torture would begin or stop for that matter.

I really don't get the poor reviews, if you're a fan of gore porn this will be right up your street, lots of creative deaths, sexy birds and a good ending even if it was utterly predictable

I was expecting better from a woody Allen production with a great ensemble cast but this failed with me for a number of reasons.

The whole rich uncle, gambling, murder plot was too simplistic and poorly executed, many people have said this movie was rushed and Allen could definitely have used another half hour of running time to smooth some edges, develop some "outs", create more rationale behind what was going on.

The one bright spot was Colin Farrell, he did a great London accent and showed his versatility as being able to do more than just "bad boy" roles. But the ending was farcical almost and Allen chose to throw in shots of the boat and the girlfriends in some manic way of tying everything together, very unsatisfactory and I was thinking aloud "that's it?"

Quality horror movies that don't rely on mountains of gore/blood or state of the art CGI effects are rare nowadays as a lot of the work is taken out of the director's hand.

Director Jaume Balagueró does a terrific job here building the suspense. Calista Flockhart clearly chooses her roles very carefully and she was part of an excellent cast.

I don't know if this was an actual old hospital or just a well created set but this definitely added to the whole effect, you could almost anticipate the creaking and crumbling that was going to happen.

And people could relate to a lot of things here spiritually, the whole life death conundrum and everyone knows stories of misdoings in hospitals back in the day, the director skilfully conjures this all up together, the only slight disappointment is the dead nurse herself. While, i'm pleased fx here were at a minimum, she looked like she had been cobbled together by one of the children!

That doesn't detract in anyway from an excellent modern suspense horror movie

some lukewarm reviews on here which surprises me because nowadays it takes a lot to scare me but this movie gave me a few chills.

German director Christian alvert storyboarded every scene and that attention to detail paid off, the suspense was taut the whole time. Lilith was the perfect creepy little girl for this role, she had one of those faces which could be trusting and terrifying at the same time

The demon thing could have been used a bit more and I was expecting a more satisfying death but scenes like when the house burnt down and the little girl came out to tell emily "that was mean" were very shocking

"orphan" fans wont be disaappointed here

I'm not the greatest fan of the flashbacks in movies where you see future events while you're trying to digest whats going on in the present and this movie is full of this. First time writer-director richard greenberg tried too hard here throwing out too many plot lines, some fit, some don't. For such an accomplished assassin why would banks take a chance on bennie when there so many red flags like her "ex husband" just showing up like that, how on earth did no-one hear any gunshots on the balcony and right at the end, banks supposedly showing up was too much, these are just off the top of my head. This aside, it was an entertaining thriller and kiefer is in "24" mode here so fans of that will like him here.

At the time of writing, this movie rated 4.2 which is absurd, this is a very funny low budget equivalent of sex drive or American pie. Its filmed in the jerky camera/documentary style which maybe some people don't like but I think that gives the movie authenticity.

Zack Pearlman will go onto bigger and better things as the lead, some detractors say he was trying too much to be like jonah hill, well it worked for me, and michael bennet was great in the shy awkward role.

A lot of these teen angst movies peter out halfway thru but this movie kept me interested right thru, i liked the whole youtube clip spiel and it was a great idea to include the lose virginity with fave porn star angle.

This movie had a great concept, assign certain characters as guards (middle aged guy who still lives with his mom, frat boy on a powertrip, etc)make the meek/liberals prisoners, give the guards a set of rules, throw everybody in a makeshift prison for 2 weeks and see what happens.

The result of this would probably be fascinating every time but this movie could have benefited more from a few questions being asked, like who were the people organizing this.And why the chief perpetrator was supposedly paid in spite of what he did and especially when the experiment didn't last 2 weeks.

There's a reason why some movies even with great actors aren't given a theatrical release, this was the directors 2nd movie, he's more of a producer and it showed. I didn't see the German original and I don't see the point comparing, I judge every movie on its original merits and this one could have been much better with a little more thought and application.

One of my favorite films is the Assassin,where a convicted killer is spared death only if she agrees to train and become an assassin for the government. If she refuses, she gets a bullet in the head as was originally intended. A tad preposterous but at least there's a point.

Here, we're meant to believe a man is not given a lethal injection as intended but sent to work as a groundskeeper at a facility where he is not under lock and key but told to just forget about his family which at the end of the day is his point of existence! All this so a priest/father can try and change his mindset, I would have loved to have seen the father convincing the Texas authorities to keep him alive for that purpose, that SHOULD have been the movie! And when he does get on the bus to try and go see them, the "guide" tells him not to and he just walks off the bus and doesn't try again. Then at the end, when he does go back to Texas to see them, his wife welcomes her dead husband like he's just come back from a business trip. And, of course the authorities made no attempt to stop this "dead" man return home. If you can get past these gigantic plot holes and poorly conceived ideas, I guess there's a half decent film in there but for me, zero credibility means it has no point.