SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Orpheus_Unlimited "A beautiful schizophrenic woman is pushed over the edge by her husband's illicit affairs, and when her hallucinations become reality the Devil comes to take his due."Nothing in that description is actually true. The woman is not "beautiful" and "her husband's illicit affairs" didn't pushed her "over the edge" nor "her hallucinations become reality".So when a movie says "the story is about unicorns" and it's actually about horses...you have a serious problem at hand.The movie tells the story of Mirium Jones, a woman suffering from schizophrenia that decides to "leave it all behind" when her husband cheats on her with a younger woman. She also lost her unborn children due to a miscarriage. See? And you thought your life was bad.So she decides to take a trip to Venice and goes to a Basilica (a very old and magnificent church) basically to pray to the Devil (?) for a chance of getting pregnant again. Because everyone knows that if you need to make a Pact with Satan...the obvious place to go is a church.Then without any kind of explanation the emotionally scarred woman decides to go back with her husband, who buys a huge house in the mountains and builds a "studio" for her and her paintings.But then...everything goes to hell when all of a sudden all the characters become like corrupted versions of themselves. Again, without any sort of real explanation.Strange things start to happen all around Mirium and the obvious question Writer/Director Joseph P. Stachura wants you to ask is "is it all real or not?" "are all these due to the schizophrenia or is the Devil's work?". A very interesting idea (albeit not an original one at this point) that Stachura completely ruins with his awful directing job and a worse script.The acting in this movie is an insult to the senses and not even Tony Todd is able to deliver a worthy performance. Shari Shattuck as Mirium is a complete mess and most of her performance just jumps from overacting to plain pathetic acting. The rest of the cast is just...well...let's just say "bad".Photography is forgettable, except for the Venice portion of the movie (the first 7-8 minutes of it).The SFX are something straight out of a B Movie. The Syfy original movies' FX are almost something out of Industrial Light & Magic compared to these ones.Oh...and the ending completely disregards everything you see just minutes prior to it.Seriously, this movie couldn't be any more worse even if it were 90 minutes of still pictures of grass.Just do yourself a favor and skip it. This is probably one of the worst movies released in 2015.

awab_avril "A beautiful schizophrenic woman is pushed over the edge by her husbands illicit affairs" Let's start with the description written by the director. I am sorry but the lady is a grandma! A beautiful schizophrenic woman sounds more like a young student character not a grandma! Okay lets move to the story, narrative, and character. The main lady character acts like she was 30 years old who wants to be pregnant again when she looks like she is at least 50 years old. She also has a very annoying character. Basically a dumb aggressive old woman refuses to take her meds and instead suffers from weird hallucinations. Acting is amateur, directing is basic and the story is very simple. Overall, the movie is awful.

ruairisean I watched this in its entirety because i was stubborn, even though i could tell in the first ten minutes it was going to be absolute cinematic dirt. The 2 people who liked it must have been high or worked on it because it had no redeeming qualities, though the set was a beautiful house on the hills (though the couple were supposedly poverty stricken, why not buy a mansion so?) bad overacting,bad effects, bad actors, awful awful film.It was almost like a bad rip off of Rosemary's baby, more like Rosemary's baby gone bloody wrong. So upset at myself for sitting through it. Once again i have not enough lines to submit a review, so I shall go on about how bad the film was, Bill Oberst who can be good, albeit rarely, was underused in the film, he just had a weird rapey vibe about him. The triptic of art students completely laughable. So much muck

puffs268 Argh even though the 3d effects were OK, the movie stunk. A story line that made no sense and I was bored throughout the entire movie ready to turn it off on numerous occasions. Gabriela? I don't get it him. Why was he even in the movie. The actor just dragged the movie down and added nothing to the plot. Nothing in the movie made sense, the main actress's artwork was awful even though that was suppose to be her profession, many cameos by 2 bit actors haunted me and their lines were laughable changing from humans to non-humans were poorly done. I was really agitated towards the end of the movie and came to the conclusion that I wasted 90 minutes of my life when I could have been watching Archer reruns.