FIRST THREAD
Watched the trailer on Bloody-Disgusting, and it looked pretty creepy, so then I came here and the rating is bad, but there are no reviews or threads... so what's with the mysterious poor rating?
Someone come join me on this board and let me know what you think.
Well, it looks like a shameless ripoff of House of the Devil....
shareIts nothing like HOD at all !! believe me,and i also hate reading subtitles but this one kept me on deck.
shareThe plot, on a very basic level, resembles that of House of the Devil, but it's really a very different movie. You might as well label every slasher film a "shameless ripoff" of Halloween.
shareLol, let's not act like House of the Devil was original.
shareIt actually has a 6.1, which isn't too bad for a horror movie. I think the reason it doesn't have a higher rating is the fact that it has a slow build-up towards the climax, but it actually is a creepily effective little thriller, with a little gore. I give it a 7.
shareThere's ten stars. Where 0 is absolute *beep* 10 is a perfect movie (doesn't exist) and 5 is average. Hence if a movie is 6.1 it's over the average.
What clichés? Thats a word the wannabe critics use when they want to whinge.share
I think people don't know how to rate with 10 stars. Really 5 is just under average that would be 2.5 star if you were rating it our of 5 stars. A 6 is more average with that being 3/5 stars. Its as simple as that really, IMO people read a little too much into 10 star rating and really its simple it just allows you to be a little more pin point accuate on your rating. As for the 10 star thing I have given 15 movies 10 stars out of more than 600 hundred+ films. There are films out there worthy of it just not many.
shareYeah but it's not really a 10 star scale is it, last time I checked Shawshank redemption was #1 on imdb's top 250 and it's top rating is 9.2.
There is no movie in IMDB that has a rating of 10 and that's because ten is the perfection that you can't really have.
What clichés? Thats a word the wannabe critics use when they want to whinge.share
'top rating is 9.2"
No, it's average rating is 9.2 (now 9.3).
"There is no movie in IMDB that has a rating of 10 and that's because ten is the perfection that you can't really have. "
Wrong. No movie's average rating will be a 10 because "perfection", as every other element of film is subjective.
BUT any movie can be "perfect" for an individual.
Because in general people dont like to read friggin subtitles while trying to watch a movie.
shareI love foreign language films, although this one the subtitles sometimes went by too fast.
I gave it a 7, which for me is pretty high. A better more "occult" ending could have raised it to even an 8 for me. I'm one of those people who will probably never give a 10 or a 0 (meaning absolute perfection or absolute crap).
I really enjoyed how the characters developed, found the ending satisfying, although a little more info on just what they were searching for/doing would have entertained me more.
I don't mind subtitles either, but most of the subtitles on this one made no sense, which ruined the movie for us.
share<<<Well, it looks like a shameless ripoff of House of the Devil....>>>
And there is your answer. A couple of idiots deem it a ripoff of some movie that they think it resembles all from watching the trailer then rate it a 1 without even seeing it.
Welcome to imdb:)
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I liked it, and I also liked House of the Devil.
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The ending was 100% occult to me,or at least i thought it was.I mean they sacrificed themselves and an innocent person to some bizzare azz occult god that dwells in the bowels of the dark abyss..It had mad satanic ovetones to it as well.
I know subtitles are the biggest buzzkill.It's like speak friggin english butthole. !! And the subtitles were like camoed in the friggin movie making it even harder to watch/
shareYou guys keep talking about the scale going from 0 to 10. But there is no 0. The lowest score possible is a 1. So, the median score would be a 5.5 if we want to be picky. 6 is above average, and 5 slightly under. But since you can only vote in whole numbers we aren't really able to score with that level of specificity.
To me, a 5 is just an average movie. Something I didn't feel very strongly about. Not good, not bad, or perhaps equal parts of both. I think that's probably a pretty normal scoring system, and others in the thread seem to use the same.
Unfortunately most IMDB users seem to work from a 1 or 10 scale, rather than a 1 to 10. IMDB is a useful resource in a lot of ways but when a film has 40% votes for 10/10 and 40% votes for 1/10 it just...doesn't hold a lot of water.
This movie is a big meh.
I find it hard to enjoy movies involving cults and rituals cause they always tend to be very over the top or derivative. The only thing keeping me going was the main actress, who's gorgeous. But even then they made her shots very gratuitous by having once scene where they're oiling her up and doing that headshot just to see her cleavage.
Stuff like this reminds me of "Movie Poop Shoot.com" from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.