Infernal

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I rented this from red box, total waste, I had a coupon and paid 53 cents, still total waste! The movie is cheesy, no plot, boring, bad acting & too long to get to a point that didn't even make sense. Don't waste your money or time. I have never written a review on here before but felt the need to after watching this awful movie. It was that bad, I wanted to prevent others from wasting money on it. Even the boring b rated horror movies are better than this. Save your money and rent something else. I wouldn't even watch this on TV if it was free had I known it was that bad so don't bother. I can't believe someone would even put this out! They should be embarrassed. This can't even be given more than a star because there wasn't any good points to the movie. After a few minutes I wanted to turn it off but forced myself to watch it because I paid for it, even tho it was a few cents, it's too much for this.

Classic Anti-Christ. I actually enjoyed the majority of the movie, the dialog was in track with people in real life struggling through similar situations with moving unplanned parenthood and then the child being born possibly autistic and how it all shapes their very young marriage with a smash of demonic fun. It unfolds really well, No jump scares that I noticed. You wouldn't really be able to notice because of the CRICKETS. Is it night time? YES because its just crickets with a touch of quiet dialog. Why was it necessary to fade them from loud to louder. Infernal racket. Unless it was their intention to use only 2 nature sound clips or something. Possibly a subconscious trigger Pavlov style. The hand cameras weren't too terrible, more propped up on stuff than actually hand held shaky cam. If you are looking to mess around on the internet while you glance up occasionally its great for that. CRICKETS

This movie had barking dogs. And deep, sinister laughter. And high-pitched cackling. And a naked demon that liked to crawl into the bed of an eight year old girl. And a demon hand petting that same eight year old girl. And crickets. Lots and lots of excruciatingly LOUD crickets. Oh, and a soundtrack sung by a self-styled and self-produced musical artist that mildly sucked. He was incredibly nasal, but the music part of the songs was pretty good. That's all this movie had going for it. The scares were non-existent. The family and friends support was barely recognizable. The only scene worth mentioning was when the eight year old girl bludgeoned her mother to death. It's worthy of mention only because of the gratuitous and vicious brutality with which she dispatched her matriarch. With a ball peen hammer. To the face. Repeatedly. It sounded like she was pounding the hammer into a pumpkin. The girl was cute, but annoying. They 'diagnosed' her as autistic. Granted, they had the repetitive motions symptom down, but the rest wasn't accurate at all. She made eye contact. She was highly verbal. She was very aware of the world around her. I know because my grandson is an eight year old autistic, and he's only now regularly using his words. The movie was a hot mess all around. Not even the halfway decent acting on the part of Nathan and Sophia could save this turkey.

People need to stop making films with handheld cameras or making out its shot with one because IT SUCKS. Blair Witch was bad enough so why copy it. Soooooooo boring only managed to watch 10mins then off. The first few minutes I was literally screaming at the screen to hurry up it was so slow. Absolutely terribly shot, acted and screenplay. Totally blows.

Story is good, acting ok, kid is good. But for the love of everything, whenever is was night time in the movie they played this background white noise that was comprised of super loud cricket chirping- while they are inside! I guess it was added to really ensure the audience "knew" it was night time, even though the lack of light and people being in bed helped. If I lived in a house with that many g.d. Crickets all the time I would also go bananas.

Infernal is a story about a couple who get married, have a child and live an increasingly difficult life. Much of this is because they have a weird little girl--one that a therapist says is autistic, though there isn't a lot of evidence for this, as the child's actions, though weird, were not consistent with this diagnosis. Later, however, she starts acting creepy and you see glimpses of demonic type stuff on the family's home video cameras. The story had some nice creepy moments, however, on balance I would not recommend the film. I have a strong prejudice against movies that employ the unsteady cam--a camera that never seems to stay in one place. A lot of TV shows and movies have been made that way but shouldn't have. Now I am not saying that nothing should be shot that way, as there are a few good examples where the camera looking like it's being held by someone with tremors isn't bad--such as with the deliriously profitable Blair Witch Project. But watching films like this is really hard on the eyes and unless there is a real compelling reason, these sort of films and shows quickly annoy. A few times such camera-work would have worked during the course of Infernal (such as when the family was videotaping various events such as weddings and a birthday party) but everything?! Additionally, the dialog seemed to need a lot of work. All too often the characters just said 'f**k' at the exclusion of something meaningful.

Although there is no bias intended, this viewer really isn't a fan of found footage movies (even the best of them seen, so far, have a lot of major problems). Most of them are poorly made, amateurishly written and acted, have a lot of scenes that lead nowhere or don't make sense, have little atmosphere and don't have much point. Infernal has all those flaws and more and is one of the worst of the lot. For starters, it looks cheap. Photography is both erratic and sloppy, never is it expansive or shows any intimacy with the characters, instead it is a visual eyesore and some of the shots are superfluously random. The editing is every bit as haphazard and incredibly badly paced, with a lot of the first quarter's scenes in particular having a very draggy and going on for too long feel. The movie is also rather too darkly lit in places, the found footage and even some horror clips are clumsily inserted and add very little and the effects and creature costume look dreadfully fake. The music more often than not did not fit within the movie, too much of the wrong mood and tempo, is overbearing and even on its own it's irritating. That it's very poorly recorded makes matters even worse, the sound quality throughout is just awful with parts being flatly recorded and others shrilly. The sound effects go well overboard in the bizarre factor, and often don't sound anything like what they're meant to sound like. The script is one of those where one has to express shock at how it was even approved in the first place, it always sounds painfully awkward and contains lots of irrelevant cussing, clunky rambling and shrill arguing that grates on the ear fast. Never once was the story engrossing, there are too many scenes that go nowhere, serve nothing to the story and they go on for far too long. It also drags badly, to the point of being interminable in places, too many parts are confused to the point of not making sense at all and there is a complete lack of scares, suspense or horror as a result of the bad pacing, being too unintentionally silly, looking cheap and being too tame. Same with the characters, who are little more than done to death stereotypes with annoying or non-descript (or both even) personalities, while the creature was more laughably silly than menacing. The direction is so flat that it borders on incompetence, and the acting across the board- with the sole exception of Alyssa Koerner, who's cute and creepy, even with having little of worth to work with- is far too amateurish to ring true. Overall, an awful movie and one of the worst of a type of film that's never done much for me. Koerner is the one halfway decent thing about Infernal, and even she is not enough to save it. 1/10 Bethany Cox

I honestly didn't like this movie from the very start. The acting seemed forced, and I almost turned if off just 10 minutes in. BUT, I have a rule...once I start a movie, no matter how bad that it is, I have to finish it. First off, the continuity of the film had some issues. For instance, when the girl was in the car combing her hair, her hair with very blond. Then when she got out of the car it was more red and dirty brownish. Some of the scenes were WAY to long and drug out. The actors kept repeating dialogue, but in a slightly different way. The "demon" that they had for the film looked more like a party gag than anything remotely scary. The demonic talking when the father went into the closet, was absolutely amateurish and ridiculous. The "possession" of the father was way off base, but at least they got most of the elements of possession in there. BUT, then they let him become more and more compassionate with the mother. I did however like the little girl and the hammer scene, that was probably my favorite part of the movie. I had to keep pausing the movie to see how much more time that I had to deal with this crappy movie.

Terrible acting, terrible story line, terrible cinema work, terrible everything. At one point you see a doll supposedly walking across the room by itself. It is obvious that it is a puppet and you can actually see the puppeteer's hands in the top of the screen. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.