Lizzie

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I've been through the reviews, all of which do a fitting job of explaining just how horrible this movie is; I only wish I'd thought to read the reviews before I rented it. All I want to know is.... what the ¥<&¿ Did we just watch? Is there anyone out there, that has seen the movie (avoid it at all costs) who can explain what it was about. Was there a plot, a story line, anything... that can fulfill my desire to understand what we just wasted $4.and two hours on. Don't fall into the trap, if it is ever suggested that one should watch this movie... make an appointment to have a root canal without anaesthesia... as that would be far less painful than sitting through this... what exactly would one call this? I don't feel comfortable calling it a movie.

I find the story of Lizzie Borden so interesting and watch everything I can find on it. This movie, however, really had nothing to do with it. The cover art shows the Lizzie Borden house in the background, but this movie didn't take place in the house! Why was Lizzie Allen seeing the maid and the Borden ghosts when they weren't even living in the same house? Made no sense at all. Could of been OK had it been the LB house, still not great, but maybe watchable. And lay off the wine already! I guess that was why she was having all the visions, mixing tons of alcohol with pills. The acting wasn't as bad as some people have reviewed (in my opinion). I thought Corbin Bernsen did a good job.

I'll give it two stars for Corbin Bernsen. He was pretty decent in the movie, in spite of the poor script. The movie starts with a lie...that Lizzy Borden fled her town after her acquittal. That's not true and there really is no reason to lie about it. It doesn't add or subtract anything from the movie. There's plenty of goofs...from the cameraman in the reflection of the TV screen when the cable guy comes to fix it...to a pair of legs facing Jason when he is exploring the shed. The new next door neighbor shows up the first two times in Lizzie's bedroom while she's sleeping and she's perfectly fine with that. Friendly town. When the maid reveals that she's actually Brigid from 1892...Lizzie is perfectly fine with that too. The acting is awful...I think Amanda Baker did the best she could with what she had...but Holt is awful and Gary Busey is terrible. Stay away...I wish I could have that hour and half back.

You'd think even Gary Busey, as the father of Lizzie Borden, could pull off a manic performance, wouldn't you? But even as he's going at his wife with an ax, it's like he's buttering a slice of toast. This was the worst movie with the worst performances that I've seen in years. If this thing was up against Plan 9 From Outer Space, Ed Wood would have won an Oscar. Seriously. It's supposed to be about Lizzie Borden and it ends up being about nothing--just an excuse for the lead to show her tits (which aren't bad) and an excuse to let Gary Busey show us that his kid is actually a better actor than he is. You need to pass on this one, take my word for it.

I had this movie in my watch list for some time and had avoided watching it after reading all of the negative reviews. I eventually decided to give it a go and it was much better than I expected. Everyone is saying the acting is really bad, I disagree. A couple of lines throughout the movie were delivered poorly but they were few and far between. I would rate the acting better than average as I have seen some real stinkers. The story is another thing that seems to be getting a bashing. The story was what kept me watching. It isn't a retelling of the Lizzie Borden murders as some seem to think, they simply used the original story and expanded on it. There was nothing that I didn't understand after the movie finished and nothing disjointed about the story. This is a well done, interesting B movie. I am a B movie aficionado and this sits well in the middle of the pack.

This movie could not be worse if it tried! The acting was terrible, the scares non-existent, and the plot had no continuity whatsoever!I tried to treat the plot like a puzzle only to find I was missing not one, not even two,but half on the entire frigging' puzzle! The only redeeming quality was the boyfriend looked halfway decent with his shirt off, I am glad I watched this on Netflix and did not waste money on this absolute bore. If you are like me and will watch a movie just hoping it will get better, do not and I repeat do not waste your time with this one! There are so many other good or even bad movies out there that are worth your time than this one. Sucksville unless you like random boob shots. Oh, and my final thought is that the therapist should lose his license forever...DENIED! That stupid f--k hadn't seen the ball since kickoff!

So, on a whim, I decided to rent this from Redbox, since my husband and I love watching unpopular films and we love horror/thrillers. I have to say, this is the absolute worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life. Oh, where to start... Let's start with the horrid cinematography. Now, normally, this aspect of a movie doesn't bother me -- mostly because I'm no movie purist and I can get behind some shoddy film scenes. But this was just bad. There were random film shots of irrelevant things, such as when the protagonist/antagonist is going outside the house with the cable guy. Before showing her walking outside, there is a brief glimpse of a tree... nothing else. Just a tree. Not only that, but the tree choppily faded out. What was even the point? There was no relevance, no scenic value, no point. Not to mention, the cheap angles to try to make the axe murders more gruesome (which actually just made them more laughable). The scenes weren't contiguous, didn't flow and there didn't even seem to be a proper order to the scenes. Now, the special effects.. again, normally I don't base the value of a movie on this.. but there were scenes where I think someone just used a ketchup bottle to * red corn syrup around... such as in one of the final murder scenes where Lizzie's father is being brutally slain by his wife (and incarnate of Lizzie Borden), you couldn't see his face, but blood shot upward in a squirty like fashion, which is neither plausible or realistic. Then, there was the acting.. for the most part, it wasn't absolute trash, but I feel bad for the cast as they were stuck with poorly written lines. However, there is a memorable moment, where Lizzie looked like Edvard Munch's "The Scream" as her former self was killed on a tricycle by the Lizzie Borden incarnate. No one actually grabs their face and screams while smooshing their cheeks against their lips. Finally, the golden gem of poop in this movie.. the script. You know there is issue with a script if you're laughing at the lines in a horror film. I think for the first half of the movie, the only lines were, "Jason! Jason! Where are you?!". And then at some point, the lines might have had some substance. But my husband and I were lost when Lizzie witnesses the maid Maggie being raped by the old guy. The old man insinuates something about his child being a lesbian, which I didn't understand.. then after raping the maid, he proclaims, "I squirted you, now yer carrying my baby.". I think I actually laughed so hard I peed myself. Squirted? Really? Squirted? Back to the ketchup bottles... Just don't waste your money on this film, unless you want to make fun of it or make it some sort of drinking game.

My wife and I rented this from redbox and I can honestly and whole-heartedly say I feel I have been cheated out of a dollar. Still, I will say it was worth a laugh. Instead of forcing ourselves to suffer through this waste of 2 hours I'll never get back, we started making our own script and talking over the characters. Unfortunately, when this line happened: "I squirted you! You got my baby inside you now" we laughed so hard we don't really know what happened to the rest of the movie. I'm pretty sure the director got with his cast, wrote a bunch of plot twists on penises, and attempted to throw them into a bag across the room. They must have all made it because the final outcome was a bag of d***s. Oh and one more thing I found hilarious was the In Memory of Seann Flynn... All I can say is they must have hated this poor soul.... A lot. Sorry Seann

There are several things wrong with this movie: 1) The plot makes no sense. 2) Things that happen are largely not explained. 3) When someone is swinging an axe, stand well away from them. 4) Weakly hitting a door with an axe a few times won't make it open. 5) Why wasn't Lizzie Allen freaked out when she awoke to see Maggie standing in her room holding an axe? 6) Why wasn't Lizzie Allen weirded out when Maggie/Bridget let herself into the house the first time? 7) Doesn't everyone know not to mix alcohol and medications? 8) We never learn what the deal is with the creepy old doll. 9) Why was there a random sex scene for a few seconds? Do breasts make a movie better? 10) Could the props department have chosen a more annoying alarm clock? 11) Why have Maggie/Bridget show up wearing a turn-of-the-century maid's costume? 12) What was the purpose of Jason being possessed by Lizzie Borden's mother? 13) How could Lizzie Allen not know her own address? That's just stupid! 14) Also, the police department wouldn't answer right away, and an address search would not be instantaneous. 15) So, are the ghosts of the Lizze Borden tragedy doomed to repeat their last moments for all eternity? Is that what we're supposed to glean from this sequence? 16) Gary Busey? Really?! He's certainly crazy enough to play the role very well. 17) So, Lizzie Allen sees Maggie/Bridget being raped and simply leaves the room? 18) Mr. and Mrs. Borden don't wield the hatchet with enough force to cause the bad special effects blood spray that results. Super lame! 19) The special effects are laughable, amateur, and shoddily done at best. 20) The Lizzie Borden house has not been a private residence in decades. No one could live there in modern times. 21) Continuity: Maggie/Bridget was NEVER wearing a yellow shirt in any of the scenes until her body is found on the floor. 22) With a neck wound like Jason's there would be more bleeding, spatter, etc. 23) Was the gun there the whole time? 24) Who would keep a gun in a certifiably crazy woman's house? 25) The ending montage makes no sense at all. 26) Shooting oneself in the head would leave bits of brain matter plastered to the wall, not just low viscosity blood. 27) Why would Lizzie Allen's father be missing an eyeball? 28) Lizzie Borden was acquitted of murder, so why does she say, "Society will pay?" That makes no sense whatsoever. 29) Lastly, a corpse cannot be possessed. Furthermore, why would Lizzie Borden's ghost want to possess Lizzie Allen's corpse in the first place. Seriously, do not waste your time with this atrociously bad piece of garbage. You will never get those two hours of your life back, and you will be really angry about it.