Reviews

As other reviewers have said, this is a total waste of 6 hours of your life. It's set up as a quirky, small town mystery/sci fi American Netflix sort of series full of odd characters but it doesn't quite live up to this.

None of the characters are particularly interesting or likeable so you don't care what happens to them.

The series isn't sure what it wants to be, a comedy? Sci fi? Murder mystery?

It's not funny enough to be a comedy and certainly isn't thrilling or complex enough to be murder mystery or sci fi.

By the end of 6 episodes you still don't really have a clue as to what's actually going on. There's too many stories which don't actually come together to make any sort of coherent outcome.

There's a guy wrongly imprisoned for murder, there's there's some weird drug that makes people hallucinate, there's a random guy over seeing a fracking outfit, people wondering into woods and 'seeing' things, and then a side story for the main character where her ex turns up. I mean why? None of it is related and none of the stories reach any conclusion.

I was disappointed with this. By the end I was left confused and dissatisfied as there's too many loose ends that aren't tied up, not enough explanation for how things turned out. Too many unanswered questions. Apparently there have been hints at a second series. I won't be watching.

So I only sat through the first episode of this series before I gave up. It follows the stories of vacuous attention hungry social media junkies who end up being stalked and harassed online. It just turns very silly very quickly, what with the silly graphics of phone lines incessantly shown and childish warped voices (which are supposed to be scary but had me in stitches) nobody seems to know how to use the block feature on their social media accounts or have the sense to contact police. This should be a cautionary tale of not sharing too much online and not being so trusting of others, but it just goes round in circles and becomes another sensationsalist Netflix ratings grabber.

I wasn't sure what to expect from this, from the title I thought it was going to be some cheesy hammer horror type story where young women are turned into waxwork dolls. Unfortunately it's not nearly that interesting. The story focuses on 2 young sisters who are employed in painting dolls faces. One of the sisters aspires to be an artist and gets entangled with a group of other young arty types looking to exhibit in THE great exhibition. Unfortunately it takes an age to get there, there's so much pointless dialogue it drags the story out needlessly. None of the characters are particularly interesting or inspiring and there is the usual tick box casting that we see in everything nowadays despite it being inaccurate. I gave up after episode 2, too much of a snooze fest for me.

As a Scottish person born and bred and one who visits the loch frequently and a lover of all things Nessie, I was pretty underwhelmed by this. It's a short film about the Nessie hunters and media circus that have followed the quest for the monster for decades. All the usual suspects are here. There's nothing about the monster or the actual investigations, it's more about the people behind the searches. They had an actor playing Frank Serle, possibly the most notorious Nessie hunter of them all. He died years ago so I'm not sure why this was included, it didn't really add anything as there was interview footage of him while he was alive. There's nothing new in this film or anything that can't be found by searching on YouTube. Pretty lacklustre.

Oh my god this is terrible, it's really really bad. It's a blatant, unashamed rip off of Silence Of The Lambs... and a very poor one at that. 2 detectives team up to catch a copycat serial killer murdering women and leaving them posed in various ways, in homage to 'The Artist' played by John Malkovich. What on earth is he doing in this?! He's so much better than a low budget rip off. It pains me to watch him in nonsense like this. I mean the driving scenes are hilarious, it's green screen!!!! Martin Lawrence is a seriously bad actor, I never knew how bad until seeing him in this trying to play the mean tough cop. He's just not convincing. The script is awful too, as is the sound, I struggled to hear a lot of the dialogue. Just avoid it please!

Strong proud black woman defends her kids on a move across the country after her husband dies, after falling foul of the local drugs boss... who also just happens to be the local sheriff (you'll work this out as soon as you see him) where do the purple and lights come from all the way out in the desert?! How does a middle aged woman manage to fight off a gang of skinheads?! Why is every white person portrayed as racist country bumpkin?! Who put money up to make this??! Absolutely awful, I can't believe I sat and watched this. Cliched story, awful acting, predictable.. I mean it has every component of a bad film.. and more. Shockingly bad.

Ex drug addict mother of two is moving out of her old family home as she can't afford to stay there. Gets locked in the pantry by her abusive ex and his pedophile friend. She then makes one stupid decision after another in a bid to escape, like trying to dig out of the floor instead of seriously trying to break the door down. She also sets fire to aforementioned pedo's arm just outside of the pantry she's locked in?! Utter stupidity. All the while her kid runs about whining about apples. It's just a bit silly and far fetched. There's no real suspense or threat and with a better script and story it could have been a decent film.

I like Ricky Gervais, I enjoy his brand of humour. Me and my hubby recently binge watched all 3 series. It starts out in series one being highly entertaining, intelligent, moving and thought provoking. Half way through series 2 however it runs out of steam. It does begin to get very repetitive, samey and even irritating, while we watch Gervais character Tony grieve and slowly (painstakingly so) come to terms with the death of his wife.

I mean there's only so many times we can watch Tony gazing wistfully at laptop vids of his wife as he falls asleep, wakes up, dozes on the sofa etc etc. I mean it becomes excruciatingly tedious and I found myself wanting to learn more about the other characters in the story, especially the postie and his sex worker girlfriend.

Tony is obnoxious, selfish, dull and I would even say nasty (he gives a drug addict money to get money for an overdose) He's not the angel the programme is desperate to portray him as. At times it becomes really cheesy and schmaltzy, I mean when his wife was alive he must have spent 24/7 filming her! Nobody does that.

Nobody films their partner THAT much. It's just not realistic.

In short it's funny and well written and well acted but they should have stopped after series 1, or at least used the further series to develop some of the other characters more.

C'mon seriously who is still making movies like this?! It's terrible, and don't believe all the fake reviews either. Cliched b rate sci-fi/horror trash. This has nothing going for it. There's dead a guy who stands and moans the same word over and over again and then some stuff floats off into space. That's it's really, laughable and tedious.

Decent films, especially horror films are very few and far between nowadays, this is actually a very decent film. It does take a while to really get going but once it does it hooks you in. It follows a family recently bereaved and mourning the death of a grandmother, from there it escalates into a pretty horrific tale of disrobing cults, devil worshipping and demons. There are some really unnerving and truly creepy moments in this, there are one or two of the usual horror cliches but generally it's an original story with decent acting. Well worth a look.

Can't understand all the great reviews on this, it's awful. The lead character is basically a dickhead who seems to be able to behave in any way he seems fit in a police call centre. Being rude to callers and picking and choosing what he fills his time with. The calls he answers are so ridiculous it's laughable, and the whining kids and bleating abducted woman are so bad it's painful to listen to. I wanted her to be killed she's so annoying. Tedious script that drags on and on you don't care what happens to any of the characters.what a waste of time and money.

Embarrassingly bad even by B movie standards. 6 annoying ex high school kids go out on a lake to party and end being 'stalked' by a big monster fish. There's the usual cliched characters, sensitive guy, geek, meathead etc etc. It's so bad, they scream things at it like 'what do you want?!' Because it's not obvious enough that it wants to eat you all?! Steals from all the usual suspects too... i.e. Jaws, piranha etc. They all deserve to die, especially the one who films it all.