I have seen an awful lot of horror movies,good ones,bad ones,great ones and vile,disgusting ones,but this is by far the worst I have ever seen,not because it was anything of the vile,disgusting,or just plain bad ones,but everything about it was just atrocious,the camera work full of double exposure,the constant overuse of thick smoke,terrible lighting and what can only be described as truly atrocious acting beyond compare to anything I have ever seen in anything I have ever watched, by every person on the screen.Never,ever let this complete trash darken your life.
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Arty time waster
Leofwine_draca5 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY is an independent British horror film shot in London with a cast pretending to be Americans. The accents range from the very bad to the just about acceptable, but the real problem here lies in the story, or lack of it. The director tries his best to deliver a dream-like atmosphere with scenes of swirling mist and the like, but very little happens in this movie and you feel cheated as a result.
The main character seems to be possessed although nobody believes her. She hangs and mopes around in her apartment for most of the running time. There's a sub-plot involving a sleazy businessman character who is played by Jonathan Hansler who gives the film's one decent performance. An early scene involving a girl being forced to strip down is included for exploitation value alone and it's the only time anything really happens.
The main character seems to be possessed although nobody believes her. She hangs and mopes around in her apartment for most of the running time. There's a sub-plot involving a sleazy businessman character who is played by Jonathan Hansler who gives the film's one decent performance. An early scene involving a girl being forced to strip down is included for exploitation value alone and it's the only time anything really happens.
Should be called Annie Dire, not Dyer
Stevieboy66623 May 2018
The Haunting of Annie Dyer. Having already seen the director's dreadful follow up to this movie, Hellriser, I expected this to be bad. And it certainly was.
It really is little more than excuse for Raven Lee and a few other women to shed their clothes, but don't get too excited as this is rated BBFC 15 and so it really is quite tame. If you want full frontal then watch Hellriser instead (but that is not a recommendation). Some seriously bad acting here, in particular Ms Lee. It sounds like she is attempting to be American but failing miserably in the accent department. As does the girl playing the psychic investigator. Really cheap sets, barely any gore, poor lighting. The only worthy performance here is Joathan Hansler as Fitz, the sleazy landlord. Quite amusing.
Another dud put out by 88 Films, though the DVD's artwork is nice.
Terrible
steve-6378221 November 2019
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rotini-5258629 January 2021
A rather fun erotic-tinged supernatural indie effort
kannibalcorpsegrinder12 May 2024
Accused of a heinous crime, a woman recounts for the investigating officer her connection to the owner of an apartment she lived in that was secretly bugged by the landlord who owned it which sets off a round of paranormal activity within the apartment that sparks more dangerous revelations.
Overall, this was a fairly fun erotic supernatural thriller. This is the fun part of the first half here where the film's more overtly erotic leanings are on display which bring about the later turn to the overt genre elements. Spending the first half dwelling in the sleazier tone here with the interactions involving the police officer owner of the property who either records others performing explicit activity in the apartment or watching her around the apartment thinking she's alone taking showers or getting undressed to walk around in a towel. This happens frequently enough to provide a solid background for what's going on with the reveal about what he's doing this for that allows for the solid introduction of the supernatural activity within the apartment to have some great work to go on. Once this works through the erotic undertones, the supernatural possession that comes together is quite enjoyable. The initial sequences focusing on the concept of the haunted apartment with the series of interactions within that hint at another force inside targeting her when dealing with the swirling hints of smoke or steam when she's doing something, there's some genuinely chilling work at play here that starts to develop into more overt hauntings that look into the more sinister purpose behind it all. This is all explored rather nicely with the final half where it deals with a solid series of reveals that lets everything come together in a surprising manner that isn't as obvious as expected which helps to end this on a surprising note to give this some likable factors. There are some factors here that hold this one back. One of the main issues here is the sluggish pacing that takes a while to get going as there's not much in the way of action for a large part of the running length. Featuring the erotic underpinnings at the expense of the supernatural action, it takes so long until it happens and it takes several attempts before that point as well that it's all quite slow getting to the more overt genre fare with the seeming focus on the constant showering or checking in on the sleazy apartment owner. As a result, that can also make this one fall somewhat in line with the lower budget genre fare where the lack of high-scale effects or production values with it giving off a cheap look without much going on, factors which aren't too detrimental but do hold it back somewhat.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Nudity, sex scenes, and Violence.
Overall, this was a fairly fun erotic supernatural thriller. This is the fun part of the first half here where the film's more overtly erotic leanings are on display which bring about the later turn to the overt genre elements. Spending the first half dwelling in the sleazier tone here with the interactions involving the police officer owner of the property who either records others performing explicit activity in the apartment or watching her around the apartment thinking she's alone taking showers or getting undressed to walk around in a towel. This happens frequently enough to provide a solid background for what's going on with the reveal about what he's doing this for that allows for the solid introduction of the supernatural activity within the apartment to have some great work to go on. Once this works through the erotic undertones, the supernatural possession that comes together is quite enjoyable. The initial sequences focusing on the concept of the haunted apartment with the series of interactions within that hint at another force inside targeting her when dealing with the swirling hints of smoke or steam when she's doing something, there's some genuinely chilling work at play here that starts to develop into more overt hauntings that look into the more sinister purpose behind it all. This is all explored rather nicely with the final half where it deals with a solid series of reveals that lets everything come together in a surprising manner that isn't as obvious as expected which helps to end this on a surprising note to give this some likable factors. There are some factors here that hold this one back. One of the main issues here is the sluggish pacing that takes a while to get going as there's not much in the way of action for a large part of the running length. Featuring the erotic underpinnings at the expense of the supernatural action, it takes so long until it happens and it takes several attempts before that point as well that it's all quite slow getting to the more overt genre fare with the seeming focus on the constant showering or checking in on the sleazy apartment owner. As a result, that can also make this one fall somewhat in line with the lower budget genre fare where the lack of high-scale effects or production values with it giving off a cheap look without much going on, factors which aren't too detrimental but do hold it back somewhat.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Nudity, sex scenes, and Violence.
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