Reviews

I was lured to pay for a ticket to see this by the gushing reviews. I was promised the chiller of the summer, best thriller of the decade... What I found was bitterly disappointing.

It's a low quality thriller, heavily "inspired" by psycho thrillers from the 80s-90s. Nothing in this is new, and for attentive movie goers, you'll predict every bit... Except the ending. The ending is so lazy and unsatisfying I would have never thought they would dare close the movie with such a cope.

Probably one of the laziest thriller I've seen in a very long time.

Maybe fans of Nick Cage will find something to love here?

I loved the documentary and learned quite a bit about the Folk Horror genre and its offshoot. I thought that the chapter on colonialism was the best and would deserved its own feature.

However, it's a lengthy documentary (over 3 hours) that sometimes lost me with a feeling of tediously hammering some points while some other were a lot more nebulously discussed. At times, I even had a hard time figuring out where I was being taken, where the discussed matters were going. I would have also loved to have a little bit more introduction of the guests speakers, some of them I was not certain what their expertise or knowledge was.

That said, the result is visually impressive and clearly shows expertise and skills. As some others mentioned, it would have probably been a little more digestible in form of a series with 6-7 épisodes.

15 minutes in the movies, I wasn't sure if I paid for a movie ticket or subsidized luxury vacations for a bunch of movie stars who got bored staying home during covid.

There is absolutely nothing clever, entertaining, funny, pleasant to watch, agreeable to listen to in that movie. Every single choice is a knife in the heart of art and/or entertainment.

At best, this is an advertising for unsustainable lifestyle, from the burnt out influencer to the megalomaniac technosolutionist. At worst, it's just a bunch of outrageously rich people looking for an all inclusive luxury vacation they don't have to pay for, when all of us were in lockdown.

It's a shame and I hate that I will not get my money back or the +2 hours of my life.