The Sixth Secret

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This movie reminded me of the old movie "Clue." It's a whodunit with twists and turns all wrapped in that classic film noir style. I really enjoyed it... up until about 3/4 of the way through. Of course, for no reason other than reasons... we have to have gay representation as a major plot point. Ever since the "awards" committees deemed it necessary to include every social agenda possible before a movie is even considered eligible for nomination, it is getting harder and harder to find movies without this being pushed on the viewers. If you - like me - couldn't care less what goes on behind closed doors, but refuse to participate in anything that promotes these agendas, then you may want to think twice about this one.... but know that that alone is it's sole drawback.

Well we all know the answer to the question but here it is anyway. Who would rate this film anywhere north of a 5? Gratingly awful delivery, jarring fake accents and 1st year drama school acting make watching this film actually the less preferable option to sitting in a room and having someone scrape their nails down a blackboard for 90 minutes. The plot seems to have been written on a napkin and then padded out every 10 minutes with a subversive twist. You might not know, or care, what the twist is, but you know it's coming because there is nothing else on offer. This film is neither a homage or parody to classic movies it attempts to mimic. You'll have more fun and mystery putting a bucket of poop in a dark room and walking about until you knock it over.

Jeeeee I'm so proud to be in the team of this movie even though I'm not on the screen!!! My first movie ever and everyone was just super! Watch and try to locate the black cat that just came in one night as we were shooting and refused to leave! You can actually spot it in one scene going up the stairs. Didn't get a bigger part though!

I saw the premiere of it in Haapsalu horror film festival. It's was truly entertaining and witty. Great story line keeps you guessing and excellent cast made it a very memorable movie experience. Highly recommend it to movie buffs in all ages.

One of the most wooden movies I have ever seen. The acting..., what acting, I think they were reading from cue card. The characters... there was no characters. The plot well, from the moment the supposedly spiritualist or psychic turned up you knew how it was going to end. There was no one you could like everyone was hateable. The western culture and art has degenerated so badly that there is no good anymore. Everyone lies everyone cheats and we pat ourselves on the back for being clever and we say we outsmarted another out of what was rightly theirs. And in every single movie there has to be a perversion, and this one is no exception. Don't bother. I think I will watch an Asian movie, maybe Chinese at least in those movies there is still some on worth cheering for!

This film keeps surprising you. Once you jump in, it keeps your mind inside from the beginning till the end. Great actors. Won the public's favorite film award at Haapsalu Scary Movies festival. I definitely recommend to see it.

This film is pretty much a huge avalanche of the best and worst clichés of vintage horror films, all on top of one another like a massive wedding cake. It begins with a London police officer kneeling to a dead body, saying 'A lion? In England?' I burst out laughing, because this is a direct reference to a 1960s British horror film The Beast in the Cellar, where a police investigator says in the first scene 'A leopard? In Lancashire?' To start with, I thought it's a serious horror film, but from that moment it was a lot of educated tongue in cheek fun. In every scene there are references to old film, mostly British (Hammer and Amicus productions). Some actors seemed just so-so in the beginning, but as the story develops, one realizes that there was a lot of 'acting within the acting'. A great deal of snappy one-liners. Kind of Oscar Wilde meets Ed Wood. Don't take it at face value or you'll be disappointed.

It does require to you watch until the end and then rewatch the very beginning that you totally forgot about. But otherwise it is a decent whodunit. Madame O. Has an Idina Menzel thing going on through the whole thing.

I am an Agatha Christie scholar, who has researched her work for years. Does that make me a better viewer? Not necessarily, but a more attentive one. Over the years I've come across several films that attempt to exploit Christie's name, either by using some of her characters (like the embarrassing recent series Hjerson) or parodying her plotlines. This film is quite obviously inspired by Agatha Christie's literary output. It playfully combines elements from several of her novels and short stories, but then adds another turn of the screw, throws in a couple of red herrings and arrives not at one, but three astonishing great reveals, while all the time keeping the viewer's interest up. I heartily recommend it to all Christie fans.