It always makes me smirk when I see this, usually just before the film has been released. It's obviously the mostly unknown cast dishing out 10's. I think I actually got suckered by this before when I watched some straight-to-dvd schlock. That said the critics reviews (one of which admittedly seemed like it was written by a 12 year old) seem pretty positive and the premise is appealing to me so I'll give it a whirl. Worth a ten though? Doubtful
sharePerhaps it is the people that see the pre-screening of movies.
shareIt serves you right for deciding whether or not you want to watch a movie based on other people's opinions.
shareI'll tell you one thing I know for sure. I've written reviews here and I've written critic reviews for a website, the websites containing critic reviews get screeners and MANY of these people give a terrible film high regards so in turn the company keeps giving them free advance screeners. I for one would NEVER compromise my integrity just to get free screeners, I get all my films free already from the net, but watch out for it when reading critic reviews for certain films because you will find bias out the wazoo.
share@OP who cares? If it bothers you so much come back in two weeks and recheck. I mean, doesn't time always even the ratings out anyway?
See, its already at 5.1 stars and likely descending just in the past 24 hours. Your post probably just made 10 sheep vote 1 star without even seeing it, but even that doesn't matter. If its good, its good. If it bad, its bad. Just watch the movie( or don't ) and rate it accordingly. You will never stop shills or reverse shills.
I honestly haven't seen it( watching it tonight ) so I have no opinion either way, but I always see this same OP on just about every new low budget release. Its becoming as common as "Reminds me of", "looks like". and "worst movie ever".
Actually, the film was originally shown at a film festival way back in 2012, so it's possible that they did see the film and are posting a review now after all this time. It happens, after all. I've submitted a correction to the website as far as dates of release goes.
shareThat is true, SinisterTwist; it ran at Sacramento Horror Film Festival in October, 2012 and again at Shockfest Film Festival of Hollywood in November 2012. The film won the top feature prizes and acting awards at both festivals. There was also a test screening open to the public in May 2012 at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood.
In all of the above cases the version of the movie screened was the original director's cut, which clocked in at 74 minutes.
The first 4 reviews of Children Of Sorrow posted in November 2012 on the Twisted Central, Matchflick, Golden State Haunts and In Defense Of Bad Movies sites were a result of those screenings; in all cases the reviewer saw the original shorter cut of the film in a theater with an audience.
Bill Oberst Jr.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2454994
This film was effectively disturbing, creepy and thought-provoking. From what I can see, it's being extremely underrated. Good performances and well done all around. Cheers
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