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Ultimate garbage with zero entertainment value


perfect for cerebral horror fans who get their social education from movies because they live in the middle of nowhere and have limited human contact.

For me, it was boring. it does not entertain

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You seem pretty fackin stupid. All due respect.

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So long as I'm nothing like you. Phew!

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It was massively overrated. We get it being isolated and lonely turns people into nut jobs. A lot of the violence was done off screen. Meh. If it wasn't black and white it wouldnt have gotten all this acclaim.

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I'll bet you liked Rob Zombie's "31" 😄

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Lol! Yep, OP is probably:

a) Young
b) Doesn't understand psychological horror
c) Is not entertained or considers a movie scary unless it's a gore-fest.

"It's as much fun to scare as to be scared" -- Vincent Price

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Hard to call it psychological horror when there are so much illogical, questionable *beep*

If I'm riding through the country with my newborn baby in the only seat of the vehicle, I'm not picking up a strange woman in the woods.

A man shackled in a barn wouldn't be able to walk. Septicemia? No one would survive those surgeries in that unsterile environment. Call it weird sure, but don't call it psychological or imply it takes intelligence to go along with this film.

Having a strong suspension of belief would be far more accurate.

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Exactly. Those claiming it requires intelligence to understand this trash obviously didn't finish school. Psychology 101 is not scary just boring and predictable.

Under The Shadows is the standard of horror that appeals to my liking, the plot, story, acting, production values, direction are all vastly superior to any horror film I have seen in the last several years.

Eyes of my mother is just garbage, disturbed and depraved people resulting from abuse that climaxes in gore fest is suitable for perhaps the uneducated who find such things fascinating academic study. Personally, I find such narratives predictable, you don't need a psychology degree nor a doctorate in behavioural science to work out if something evil happens to a child's parent and they witness event, it is inevitable that whatever evil cruelty that follows will be of equal measure or an even higher order of magnitude to the original heinous crime. If people need a movies to educate them on this very very basic axiom, then it is clear that they had missed out on a significant portion of schooling.

Don't get me wrong i like gore fests but it must have a thrilling story behind it, something like "I saw the devil" or "The Chaser"

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I agree with most of what you said, including the praise for Under the Shadow - much better-crafted psychological horror - except for your idea that this film could serve as an "education" about psychology. It is not true that "if something evil happens to a child's parent and they witness event, it is inevitable that whatever evil cruelty that follows will be of equal measure or an even higher order of magnitude to the original heinous crime." The acts of mutilation, captivity, and murder that are part of this film would not "inevitably" follow from a traumatic event such as witnessing a parent's murder. This stigmatizes people with PTSD and is a misunderstanding of how trauma works. Keeping someone captive for any length of time is difficult to get away with, and is usually driven by psychosexual sadism, and if that is linked to trauma, it's usually physical or sexual abuse in childhood, not the tragic loss of a parent or loved one.

In short, if someone was trying to get a "Psychology 101" lesson from this, they'd be getting a terribly inaccurate lesson.

"every time godzilla loses to mothra I die a little bit more"--Godzillaswrath

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Brutal flick, I dug it. Too bad about the out of place ending tho. A billion times better than Rob Zombie's "31".

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This film was ANYTHING but garbage.

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I agree, perfect for cerebral horror fans like me :-)

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Not every movie is supposed to be 'entertainment'. One does not get much entertainment from watching Tarkovsky or Bergman or other cinematic master. Not saying this movie is in the aforementioned league but just saying, you can't judge a film for what it's not trying to do.

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