Reviews

Don't get me wrong , the acting is great and it's an important message ....but the delivery left me somewhat underwhelmed. For a start the movie takes a long time to get going. I was expecting more of a 'he said/she said' after the incident but we don't really find out what happened and what leads to the mothers eventual realisation. The sister is adamant he is guilty and then the mum realises it too...but what changes her mind? But again, an important message ....but just too slow in the beginning to set the scene etc etc. What made him leave Australia? Was an assault committed there? U answered questions.

Genuinely creepy film, imho. Deserves more than a 4.9 rating. How racists from the past continue to haunt the future at a College with a dark history. As others have stated there were probably one or two too many themes. I think the witch plot line could have been removed. Didn't really fit. And Jasmine should have been encouraged by Gail to find a more supportive college. Just saying 'it's everywhere,' was not going to inspire hope. Thought the acting by the Gail and Jasmine actors was great. Story good too, given what I have heard Re academia. But some plot holes. However will be interested to watch future work from this Director. Just cos it wasn't full of jump scares is no reason to vote it down, imho.

Too dark, too blue, well acted ....but kind of a dreary drama. The kid is creepy and spoiled and makes stupid mistakes and is hard to like - well acted though so no fault of the actor I guess. I Loved Michelle Dockery in Godless but her character feels insipid in this. .....also Hard to imagine someone could not be blood splattered after a stabbing murder if they had committed it. Would have liked more of a twist w the other teens or social media. At one point I thought maybe the mum had a murderer in her family as the murder gene 'apparently' goes down the female line. That would have been a good twist! No big twist or aha moment to provide sufficient pay off at the end. But Great to see Daniel Henshall - Aussie actor - in a supporting role.

When I thought this was going to be a pandemic movie set in China, I got interested. But then it went down a completely different path. Very confusing plot. Far better ways for one woman to save another woman from abuse .........ie not by maiming them. How about reaching out and talking to her?! Also, like another reviewer says, those buses in China look way too old.

This film is not for everyone. I went in with an open mind. Its quirky to be sure and older viewers might enjoy seeing what hip young people get up to in LA after the sun goes down. If those bars are all real some are quite cool - one looked like a mausoleum. Garfield plays a smelly guy who you don't really end up rooting for. However he does act with an awe-inspiring deranged intensity at times. At first you go down a couple of rabbit tunnels and are keen to see where it all ends, as it is all quirky and curious. However after a while it starts to drag a bit and there are just so many plot lines that parts of the movie don't make any sense and it just runs way too long. A subplot about a composer dictating all our generational music moods really proved unsatisfying for me. Ultimately there is no mystery and at least 30 minutes could have been cut out of the time. I liked the balloon girl.... but like other reviewers was disappointed by the blatant 'male gaze' of the main character. Ultimately the credits at the end were the most enjoyable part of the movie for me and my biggest takeaway is how the REM tracks are still sounding so energetic, so great, and so relevant twenty years after their release.

I watched most of this till I got to the 'Two Storms' episode. Then after that I went straight to the last episode to see if some questions got answered. And a lot of them do but a couple of major ones don't. It was just moving so slowly, and - as other reviewers have stated - there is a lot of family drama set in the present day. Like I 'get' that all the present characters are still haunted in one way or another and that is kind of the main point of the story. But this series could have been 5 episodes, by just taking out a lot of the long reflective stuff. And of all the characters, Nell was the most likeable of the adult characters so I think I would have preferred it if she had battled the house and won. Tho the twist re her 'ghost' was a big one. But it did not make sense that she went ALONE in to the HOUSE at dark. And also, why was ARTHUR there - as he did not die in the house? Why were the twins the most damaged of all of them? I did like some of the back stories tho - such as Theodora's 'touch' story and the addiction story. But some subplots just went on and on and on and on - eg the storm, and the mould in the walls etc. The 'reveal' re the Mum was too late for me in the series. I couldn't sustain watching to get to that part. And we NEVER find out why the house was EVIL in the first place and what was its motivation to DEVOUR its inhabitants in the red room? That I think was the biggest shortcoming of the series, and its length. Perhaps too much family drama, and not enough horror

The acting was great, I will say that. But I found the pace incredibly slow between 'monster appearances'. I watched this on dvd so could fast forward when i wanted. To be honest I was glad I wasn't in the theatre during the slow bits. I didn't mind the look of the monsters - but they did seem very similar to that creature that ate the cat in Stranger Things. Lots of plot-holes as others have pointed out - where did the electricity come from?; why didn't they live by the waterfall?; where was the Army?; why did they have a baby?; how did the monsters get around without hitting trees? etc etc. But often in horror films, usually of the slasher variety, the main characters make lots of silly mistakes and end up in dire situations. I guess my gripe with this movie is that some of the decisions/lack of decisions were just too implausible for the type of movie that this was trying to be. Like it wasn't a spoof like Zombie Beavers. And characters in 'Wolf Creek' make dumb decisions but parts of that movie were scary. I just found the implausible parts to be a bit insulting to my intelligence. Like if they could hook up all those lights and everything, why couldn't they set up a better living situation? Why were the kids so afraid of getting back to the house, ie from the corn silo? Like as long as they were quiet, they had nothing to fear. Why weren't there more sound diversions? Why didn't they shoot the rifle and the creature would run in the direction of the shot, away from them. I could go on and on.But not all bad - good acting, specially the young girl. Just give me a decent story to sink my teeth in to!

Just saw this. An exhilarating snapshot of the Oils performing onstage. Candid shots of young adults attending concerts with at times dubious 80s hairdos (oh the eighties!), where the energy on stage and in the rapturous crowd oozes off the screen, like frontman Peter Garrett's perspiration. An at times mesmerising look at a band that connected hugely with its live audience - during a time when the nuclear arms race made the future feel at times very uncertain, and during the time of Garrett's first foray into Australian politics. From the interviews w young people you can see how engaged they were with the band and how they felt the band spoke for them. The movie gives viewers a chance to feel the dynamic energy of their live 80 s performances. There are few interviews, but the lack of narration is almost immersive. You get taken along on tour with them, in the early days when the band set up their gear themselves, and the support crew was small but dedicated. Lots of gaffer tape! A candid after concert glimpse shows band members sitting down with cups of tea, not quite the 'rock and roll' aftermath of a live show that you might imagine (!) Fans will love the music and the concert footage. But worth viewing for anyone interested in this point in history and the impact the Oils had on the political landscape of the time.