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The movie should have been a cool psychological thriller. It started well but became incoherent. There was no explanation to why things were happening. People just started acting crazy for no reason.

And rather than focusing on the story/legend /conspiracy, they were more focused on meaningless and irritating sexual activity.

Noelle (Madeline Quinn) and Addie (Betsey Brown) rent a spacious Manhattan apartment. The realtor seems suspicious. A girl (Dasha Nekrasova) walks in claiming to be a realtor. She's actually investigating and reveals to Noelle that the apartment was owned by billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. This takes place after his suicide while in custody.

The boyfriend sucks. Noelle is not a nice friend. Addie's radar is broken. I don't care much about these people. The only one worth rooting for is the girl and she comes in later. This is an indie horror bordering on experimental. The Epstein saga is traumatic for some and could be compelling for horror material. The second tier actors try to do some spooky acting but it comes off a bit comical. I can appreciate the attempt but the indie filmmaking does not quite achieve true spooky atmosphere.

Two roomies score a suspiciously cheap apartment in Manhattan, but after a first night of disturbed sleep the nightmare never ends ...

Strange shoe-string budget production, written by two of the actors. It's well edited and paced, cinematography pretty rough, probably too much dialogue, but the score has a nice synth vibe here and there, and the sensibility is reminiscent of pervie '70s stuff, from the era when New York was a nutters' paradise.

The shape of it is intriguing, with three overlapping delusions fuelled by pharamceuticals. I say three, because there are three principal characters, each of whom has gone off the deep end in her own way, but the delusions are inseparable from each other.

The intro makes a point of figures and faces in the lofty architecture overseeing the madness that's about to break out below, and there's a sense of a demiurge in charge of an evil world, personified by the media characters of those involved in the Jeffrey Epstein affair. In the climax, which involves a protective magic crystal, there's an insert of what looks like Epstein's face, tying him in with an occult force at work. Reviews emphasizing the reality of that affair are missing the point entirely.

The performances are energetic but patchy, failing to give meaning in any subtle way - that's probably down to a naive reliance on dialogue and lack of experience in the direction and acting. Mind you, the mental breakdown of the Jewish girl is worryingly authentic. The sex scenes have a certain JNSQ - or maybe they're just porn. There is humour in the air, but the only time I got a sniff of it was when the boyfriend is dragged along to witness the aftermath.

In the end the story didn't seem coherent to me, either pychologically or emotionally, but still an engaging mystery of why we insist on mysteries.

This movie is outrageous, purposely offensive, gross, stupid, and overflowing with conspiracies and I absolutely loved every minute of it. I am not sure I have laughed so hard in my life as I did to some of the more outrageous scenes. I can only assume the bad reviews here are from prudish folk who either wandered into the wrong film or just are not capable of understanding a joke, albeit, a wildly offensive one.

If you love goofy conspiracies (Epstein, Clintons, etc) and can stand an offensive joke and some seriously whacky sex scenes, and would like it all wrapped up in the style of a 70s Italian slasher flick, you will love this movie.

Neither suspenseful and self-aware enough to be a gallo film nor clever in its psychological distress of the stripe of Argento, nor as conspiracy-addled as Eyes Wide Shut (despite the material lends itself to a serious search-no Aquino, no Wexner Ohio police force, none of the threads re: Epstein's being a tapped gifted student the likes of Sarfatti; an episode of Subliminal Jihad will take you much further). Nor is the film willing to hurl itself into experimentation and formal editing proper (a Brakhage-esque experiment in conspiracy qua audio-visual editing, like a Project Wandering Soul meets Paul McCarthy, would be genuinely interesting). This is a film that loses its thread early on and lapses into clichés that do not embrace their being clichés, which means the film refuses to be self-referential. It loses the thread in a way that is similar to Jacques Rozier's Maine Ocean, but is not as smartly edited or funny. This ends up looking like the director made a poor film not as a critical exercise with which to playfully challenge but because they simply could not make a good film. The sole saving grace is, at certain points, the lighting. A pity, because the Epstein matter lends itself to cinema. Go watch Francesco Rosi for much more accurate and affecting cinematic portrays of conspiracy. I do hope the director's subsequent film takes up the challenge of making a genuinely good film.

But not because it is a horror film, it is just a horrid work done by derranged people.

Oh God! Can't people write stories with, at least, somewhat likeable characters? After 15 minutes or so I was wishing for all of them to die, disappear, be transported to another dimension because all of them were exaspereting and disgusting human beings.

There is too much talk in a strange, unpleasant and somewaht repulsive, gross artsy-fartsy film where, as usual, ugly sex and violence are mixed into something that is akin to a dumpster filled with decomposing garbage. Which means that for some folks it will become some sort of cult film.

Some may argue that it is an allegory, others that it has a political message. In my opinion, it is just something that shows that there a lot of perverts with a camera in their hands.

This film was so horrendous in every way, it was like watching a bad student project. You want to laugh at it, but you can't believe people actually thought that this was good enough to release as an actual film. Everything about it was porn levels of bad, from the acting to the action. I started to think it was a vanity project by some lame feminist lesbians, but then why would they make such a atrociously bad film? I mean, this is just on a whole other level of travesty. We're talking Battlefield Earth levels of trash.

I don't even know what else to say. Does it even deserve anything else being said about it? The acting was trash, the directing was trash, the script tried to be funny but ended up being trash. I mean, the scariest part about the movie was the fact that all of the things they said about Epstein and his cabal of high profile satanic deviants is true. All of it. There is no "conspiracy theory". It's all truth and the quicker people realize just how demented it all is, the quicker we start to weed out the sickos that run the world.

In the end, the movie sucked but it had to be made. Will it be taken seriously by those who'd rather not know about any of it? Of course not. But people who are aware will appreciate just how truly twisted real life is and no movie could ever match that.

I was looking for a thriller. If I had any idea what this movie was about, I would never have watched it. I think it was soft porn. It made no sense whatsoever. Can you rate a movie a zero?

Aside from maybe Titane, THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST is hands-down the most psychotic film of 2021, furthering the hastily blossoming legacy of Dasha Nekrasova (director/writer/actress) as one of the great psychopaths of our time.

After seeing all the less-than-thrilled reviews, I expected it would probably be bad, and it has plenty of weaknesses, but I ended up loving it. First off, Polanski's "apartment horror trilogy" are some of my favorite movies of all time. The title card is a blatant nod to Rosemary's Baby and the movie poster is a blatant nod to his even better and highly underrated masterpiece, The Tenant (Top 10 for me). The film does remind me more of these films than anything else I've seen, though the similarities are only in environment and mood - aside from that, and the elements that correlate with plenty of low budget horror, SCARY very much conjures it's own world and vibe through its fully absurd concepts, unique sense of (extremely dry & twisted) humor, and the very "specific" performances (hahaha). The killer music score by Eli Keszler adds a ton to the experience as well.

After a promising start, Dasha enters the movie with her morose acting and Epstein rants (LOL), and for a bit it feels like it might fall off the rails and stay off the rails, but before long there are some very unexpected directional shifts and character arcs, and the rest of the film is OFF TO THE RACES. There were a couple sequences that genuinely shocked me, and plenty more that had me cracking up. In fact, I was cracking up for the majority of the second half of the film. You have to look at the bigger picture. The fact that this movie exists at all is the most hilarious part, and that seems to me like it was clearly intended.

"Oh yeah, you're so...royal"

I know most people are going to be unwilling to see the value in this one because of its transgression and its amateur elements, but I think it takes stepping outside of typical cinematic standards and seeing the value in something so bold & creative to do so. Also, understanding Dasha's humor as a greater whole probably helps. I would recommend this to Dasha fans, but probably not anyone else. It's...LIKE THAT.

Terrible movie. Acting and dialogue was so terrible the audience was laughing. Tried to do an Eyes Wide Shut x American Psycho thing, but it was like a high schooler's tribute. Was looking forward to it being shot on film, but it was done terribly. Half the shots didn't even come out and were used anyway. It's clear this entire movie was just to showcase that Nekrasova is a sexy little freak, as the clearest and most thoughtful shots were her spitting in co-star Madeline Quinn's mouth during a (completely unnecessary to the plot?) sex scene. The ONLY redeemable part of the entire film was the score by Eli Kessler, which was subtle but powerful at the same time. Incredible musician.

See this movie but only if you stream it, dont give this any more money lol.

OK, first things first -- "The Scary of Sixty-First" is going to divide audiences. You will either like it, or think it's the stupidest and most annoying thing you've ever seen. I'm in the first group, but I cannot promise you won't be in the second. Hopefully this brief review will help you decide.

The movie begins with two friends, Noelle (co-writer Madeline Quinn) and Addie (Betsey Brown) getting a tour of an apartment in New York by a real tool of a real estate agent. It's got some issues, but it's a good deal so they decide to rent it. Addie and Noelle move in (with help from Addie's boyfriend Greg), and to be honest it seems like they are "friends" almost in name only. Soon after, a girl (known only as "The Girl" and played by director and co-writer Dasha Nekrasova) shows up. She tells Noelle that the apartment was owned by Jeffrey Epstein and was possibly used by him and his co-horts to traffic young women. "The Girl" convinces Noelle to help her investigate Epstein's history in the area, and soon her and Noelle are traipsing around New York while Addie seems to be having more and more issues, perhaps due to the possibility that something supernatural is in their new apartment ...

Look, this movie is bonkers. "The Girl" is obsessed with every conspiracy theory know to man. And they are investigating... what, actually? Nothing they do is really anything more than looking on Google or is some "new theory." And yikes, "The Girl" and Noelle are horrible people and we have an instant and constant dislike for them both, so it's impossible to be rooting for them and I think the movie wants us to.

But man oh man, what a ride. Watching every bat-s**t crazy moment unfold is worth it. The stuff that happens -- and serious stuff does happen, believe me -- will stick with you. It's a wild blast of a ride. At a little less than 90 minutes, it moves briskly and doesn't overstay its welcome. And turning the Jeffrey Epstein saga into the subject of a horror/mystery flick is a minor stroke of genius. My only complaint is that it really doesn't stick the landing, which is a shame -- it came so close to really nailing the ending but just didn't do it.

As I said in the beginning, there's every possibility you'll hate it. Pretty strong recommendation from me, but caveat emptor.

"The Scary of Sixty-First" is just a weird movie with a gloomy sense of humour based on conspiracy theories that was nice to watch. Some scenes are provocative so you are warned. It is an easy to follow premise. The storyline of the movie is that the existence of a global elite paedophile network is not that farfetched. If you like conspiracy theories and especially the ones where Epstein is involved in and with the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell now unfolding, this is definitely a movie you have to watch. Did Epstein really commit suicide? Was he indeed the ringleader of a global elite paedophile network and where the British Royals involved etc.? If you prefer a good plot twist and outstanding acting, don´t go, you will be disappointed and it will be a waste of time. Despite all the negative reviews, I kind of liked this movie. If you are just looking for entertainment and a movie where you don´t have to think too much, this is the one! You are looking at 81 minutes movie including the ending credits. It´s not like you will be wasting a big chunk of your life. Just enjoy!

I should have read the comments before watching this one smh... I just glanced at the overall rating and how many votes had been made and assumed that meant it was a decent movie.... The only way a person could love this is if they are the same type of people that loved the human centipede 2.... This garage was serious sick and messed up. Idk what I was expecting, I hadn't seen any previews or anything... From the name and description I was thinking it would be something similar to either a ghost story, a possession or ritualistic type horror... At least something entertaining.... Not a load of pedophilic trash that does nothing but turn your stomach. The acting is mediocre and screams melodrama, but thats the least of the issues that this trash brings. I don't usually rate things this harsh, but I'm still physically nauseous from watching this sick garbage and really wish I could un-watch it and get that time back to investing something more important... Like watching paint dry maybe.... Or wait for the grass to start growing and watch that.... Just about anything else really.

Save yourself the nausea and skip this one, I wish I had.

I watched this at Summer Berlinale. It's like a bad student film, or like mocking bad student films. References: yes. Competence: no. At 80 minutes it's way too long. Which doesn't mean there's not enough plot. This would be much better with just btches screaming on and on and on, like an art loop.

Not only is this movie propaganda, it's also stupid and gross. The girl that wrote and directed this is bff's with Alex Jones. There's even a picture of them together on the movie images.

Besides all the obvious salutes to conspiracy theories, the movie is embarrassing and poorly executed. There are so many scenes of the girl masturbating in the most ridiculous manner, it's not even clever, just gratuitous. The characters are annoying and shallow. This movie is shameful, but I can see why the trump supporters are in love with it.

Pass on this if you have half a brain and aren't obsessed with info wars.

Oh it's bad...It's really, really bad --- comically bad. I mean, the idea is there but oh wow what a profound disappointment this is. I can see it fooling some: "no, that was irony!", "it was intentionally bad!", "it speaks to the conspirator's mind!". No- it's just so awful. One can only hope this film reserves a spot in the cultural consciousness the way Troll 2 does (alas, it completely lacks its charm).

Okay, this is not everyone's cup of tea. The only things "woke" about it are a bit of girl-girl love and the incorporation of Jeffrey Epstein as a devilish influence. There's some highly erotic, fairly explicit sex - straight, gay and solo - that are certain to give puritanical viewers a stroke. And there's blood - plenty of very realistic looking blood. And violence. Against women.

The biggest flaw of the film is the lazy introduction of a main character. She shows up at an apartment just rented by two best friends, forces her way in and before you can say "Rachel Maddow" she has come between the roommates and is rolling around in bed with one of them. Simply making her a friend or schoolmate obsessed with the Epstein mystery would have made for a much less wtf intro of her character and the events to unfold around her.

Other than that, there are many pluses to be appreciated in this effort. For a micro-budget film the production values are excellent. The cast is very attractive (by traditional old school standards) and the acting is good. It has a definite NYC vibe, from the upper Manhattan locations to the playful unabashed kinkiness exhibited by the three lead actresses. The lead actor is also very likable. The cinematography and editing are very good, perfect for the story being told.

The storyline is a bit choppy and indulgent, clearly involving spirit possession but never fully "explained" in a way that might satisfy the kind of viewer who is easily confused. That said, it's nice to see a contemporary indie with a solid three act structure, not a tacked on stub of a third act.

As a horror fan, I often find myself giving up on new horror films in the first twenty minutes. This one held my interest to the end.

Through a manic adderall haze you watch 3 young girls fall down the rabbit hole of Epstein and the powerful people who helped him and killed him in a schlocky Italian-slasher inspired thriller. Hints of the Safdie Brothers, which makes sense with the downtown cool kid scene, and Vera Chitlova (daisies). Before I realized it was supposed to essentially be an Argento movie (the score is basically Goblin) I thought some of the acting was weak but once it settles into itself it's great. It's a shame they couldn't do reshoots for that first 15-20 minutes because the performances are going to turn a lot of people off. It has a great Eyes Wide Shut reference I won't spoil.

15 minutes into the movie, and i wonder to myself, 'who would make a movie about jeffery epstein? Alex jones? Haha'

i go to the imdb page, click the writer's profile (also one of the leads, never a good sign) and there she is, hugging alex jones as her profile pic.

Good god. Skip this garbage. Or watch it, and despair. That's as close to 'scary' as you'll get with this dreck.

This movie is fantastic. Its a great sendup of exploitation and John Waters camp movies of the 70s, with hilarious overacting and nonsensical dialogue. You'd have to be a sourpuss with no self awareness to hate this thing! Go back to your Oscar bait, if you don't like this you've got Green Book waiting for ya..

I enjoyed this movie a lot. It's incredibly funny, it's very obviously not meant to be taken too seriously and you have to have a certain sense of humor and interests to get it. This is half horror movie, half post-irony pop culture commentary in the style of the director's, Dasha Nekrasova, podcast, and the resulting mix is a very fresh and entertaining one. The story feels like a european horror film from the 70s and it nails the atmosphere for the most part, but add that everything mentioned about Jeffrey Epstein in this film is true, and it becomes something like a South Park episode, where fact meets fiction. This is not a bad thing, I find it very fun to watch someone explore current events in such a creative way. The score and editing were pretty good too.

The bad: the acting is generally bad but the weakest point has to be the cinematography. Half the movie is out of focus and it gets to be pretty annoying because I'm sure it was not an artistic decision. Shot on 16mm film, it feels like a waste.

Not a great film but not bad either, just made for a very specific audience. Everyone else just got filtered.

While the film does try to sell as unique and indie like it is a real hit and miss. The filming and camera work looks unprofessional and lazy and the acting is beyond horrendous.