Reviews

This film was typical of 1980's to 1990's cinema, with it's talky dialogue and over the top 'action' screenplay.

Wooden and butch are the best words to describe Foster's performance. Hopkins' character was too unbelievable to portray properly. 'Hannibal' the cannibal is laughable, not frightening.

Ted Levine and Buffalo Bill are fantastic, however. When I first saw 'Lambs' years ago I remember being truly scared of Buffalo Bill. Ted Levine is so convincing, I'd be afraid to be in the same room as that guy. The character and performance are at odds with the rest of the movie, which as a whole is far-fetched and overblown. The script itself manages to be boring and offensive at the same time.

I am so disappointed as this movie started off scary like a good old fashioned thriller. The garbled screenplay took a nose dive to hell, which would have been OK if Hell was entertaining. Not!

Watching this felt like I was being run over by a tractor, over and over again. The biggest mess of a story and script since the diabolical sin of film titled 'Mother!'.

But hey ! The song played over the credits is good.

'The Neon Demon' is a must see for fans of surreal horror. This was a fantastic film with great actors led by a visionary director.

Spectacular cinematography makes this film a visual feast.

I was mesmiresed from start to finish by this brutal but beautiful movie. One of my top five favourites of all time.

Mysterious atmospheric satanic thriller. Story was somehow completely believable, with unusual acting you don't see in post 1970's films. The entire premise was completely bonkers of course, but I enjoyed it. It's a keeper.

I have to thank the director or whoever picked the song 'Under the Calvary Cross' by Richard Thompson for its use in 'The Night House'. I'd never heard of the song before and now it's a favourite of mine. It was used to great effect in various scenes in the film.

The movie kept me on edge all the way through, however I found the dream sequences annoying.

Rebecca Hall in the lead was excellent. I felt the story's ending could have been done differently.

I'm keeping this movie so it must be good. I immediately get rid of movies I don't enjoy.

One of those weird films where I don't know whether I liked it or hated it. I downloaded it, watched it, first in shock, then recoiled, disgusted. Deleted it.

I recently downloaded it again, repeat reactions.

Strange.... I'll probably download and watch it again and have the same reactions. 'Midsommar' is like watching a horrific car crash - you know you shouldn't watch it, but you can't look away.

I enjoyed this movie. It kept me guessing what would happen next. Fine script and direction. Very unique story.

Interesting that it's set in the 1980's, but a dead give away the film has been made recently, is with the lead actress giving off the current 'vibes' of sarcasm, or 'irony', if you will, through most of the film. Those vibes seem out of place with the time set, as I remember the '80's, and people didn't talk like that.

I found this film to be both haunting and violent. It's definitely a horror film, a good one.

Very convincing acting and decent script. Perhaps there needed to be more to the film, with regards to the story, but then perhaps not.

I think I need to re-watch it a couple of times to 'get it'.

Hey, I can enjoy trashy soap operas as much as the next gal, but 'The Bay' is pure babble. Rubbish script and hysterical acting, with dreadful characterisation, this garbage makes 'Days of our Lives' look like Shakespeare in comparison.

This film was way ahead of it's time and there are many young filmmakers out there today that could learn from watching this. It had a captivating story to begin with from Ira Levin's book.

The director gives the film a chilly creepy feeling all the way through. Acting is very convincing, particularly by the elders.

Great twisted ending left me wanting to see more of the baby! I feel a quality sequel could be made in the right hands, from Ira Levin's novel 'Rosemary's Son'.

Restored quality in picture doesn't make it a better movie.

Hokey and old-fashioned, it's hard to believe 'Fear no Evil' was released one year after Rosemary's Baby, which is a film that hasn't dated at all.

Badly written nonsense that doesn't work on any level - horror, thriller or surrealistic fantasy. Some bad acting is on display here too, particularly by Barbara Crampton, with her funny attempt at a Scandinavian accent, reducing the film's overall quality even further.

Fine film, if you view it as a kind of surreal comedy and I enjoyed it - would have gave it a higher score if it wasn't for the extremely bad casting in Jim Sturgess as 'Keith'. Sturgess must be the worst actor I've ever seen, not even funny in scenes that are supposed to be funny. Sturgess takes up a lot of the film too, pouncing around pulling faces pretending to be cockney, it was embarassing.

Seriously I liked the sad parts too, and I think the femme fatale has a sad side. I think Amber Heard is a touching actress. Billy Bob Thornton was good too. Not enough of Johnny Depp in the film to judge too much, but he does a swell pommy accent.

Leonardo DiCaprio does his best with the very weak script. Brad Pitt is boring. Story is dumb. On the whole this is a dumber than dumb film from a dopey director who likes to copycat scenes out of old movies, but does not have the intelligence to write great original stories that formed those original movies. What original scenes there are in 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' fall flat splat. The ending, however, is downright ridiculous.

This movie held my interest all the way through, and while not Oscar material, does present a tense tight story that is believable. Script is good. Director is very good. Acting very good, except perhaps the mother...who has her hair perfectly fixed in every scene, and smiles just a little too much.

Seriously I am a horror movie buff. Serious horror or serious thrillers. Not action packed 'entertainment' for children or 'tweenies'.

Even going past the fact that the film comes off as childish, 'Malignant' is badly written, not that it is a good premise of an idea for a movie anyway.

The 'acting' is off, but I feel sorry for any actor attempting to pull this crapola off.

The 'director' should find a job in some other occupation 'cos he or she sucks at directing movies.

This 'film' displays one nonsensical scene after another. One actor after another making a fool of him/her self. I was led to believe this was partly a horror movie, but the only horror presented here, is the obvious waste of money spent producing this bomb.

'Occulus' starts off spooky with good direction. I was holding hopes this movie was going to be a keeper. Even though, there was a bad actress leading the foray. Why do young actresses in post 1980's film talk so fast, almost overlapping the scripts? Is it because these girls are so dippy and so rehearsed they don't even understand the meaning of the words that are spilling out of their mouths?

The story kept my interest going until it went all over the shop and ended up in a convoluted mess.

All in all this movie was a flop.

I loved the first half of this film, with it's supernatural atmosphere of the 1960's coming back to haunt. Anna Taylor-Joy's presence is eerie.

The story was exciting up until two thirds in. The ending was over the top and left me cringing.

Filmmakers these days don't seem to know when to reign it in.

I was brought to this movie 'An Intrusion' by the relatively high score it had on here. The film had an interesting first half with the storyline, although the acting was amateurish. The last third of the story went off the rails so much so it was silly and completely unbelievable. So I sat through a night of bad acting with no payoff.

Typical of foreign films - french, Italian, Spanish, doesn't matter, they're all bad actors and rotten screenwriters. That's why as a rule I'll only watch US or UK material. I made a mistake & attempted to sit this laughable mess...was it meant to be a comedy? I like my horror to be horror please.

Good idea for story gone wrong. Movie was badly in need of tighter editing. Michelle Pfeiffer miscast or just annoying, either way she put the nail in the coffin in this stinker.

This is a stranger than strange movie. The film starts off with an intriguing screenplay. A warning for the squeamish - this is very much a horror movie. Seriously. Just the way I like it. It's a matter of taste. No pun intended.