Winifred Meeks

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This film is like the Shining. I went completely mad watching this and really wanted to grab and axe and chop the living hell out of it. I couild only last thirty minutes of this and in that time there is literally no horror elements to it at all, even some terrible Horror movies I've seen can pull that off, establish the genre within the first ten minutes, this is so bland, i began to wander off in my mind and wonder what circumstances led to this lead actress agreeing to audition for this and accept to commit to the shooting. I felt sorry for her and I zoned out of the second phone call of her and her father whilst stock footage played.

I read reviews about this movie and it sounded interesting, a mix of drama and supernatural, something I used to like about British movies when I was a lot younger. First there was the radio drama, playing loudly during a car ride to where she was staying. Why? I'm guessing to cover up the very loud piano music that did not cese playing after. I got the part of "and a happy new year" which played over and over. Why? I do not care if a movie will eventually end up being great, I care about my sanity having to here someone playing bad Chistmas music that has zero to do with anything. Made it to 12 minutes and 22 seconds. Not the first movie with some ego maniac playing loud piano music, is that an insane new movie genre?

Finally got around to watching this film & the fact that it took me long to get around to watching, should've said something as it was far from even ok, never mind mediocre... The film sees a woman who is a book writer on retreat to an old manor house in the country. It is then she starts to experience supernatural goings on & finds herself losing track of reality & fantasy the more intense the hauntings get. I found the film to be mostly boring. At 84 minutes, it's pretty long winded for what it is, even the first 30-40 minutes drags with little to nothing happening. The story is pretty tame as with the characters. The supernatural goings on were good, but didn't make up for the rest of the film which was pretty naff. The only reason I'm giving this a 2 star rating is for the creepy visuals & that's it. The film won't hold your attention & will bore you to tears. The ending is out there & abrupt. Overall, it's an 84 minute borefest. Aside from the brief creepy visuals & few supernatural goings on, you're not missing much at all. Spare yourself from this borefest & watch something else that'll be worth your time & attention. 2/10.

Nothing to spoil. Did the film makers get a sense of achievement dear oh dear. My 9 year could and probably has written better an more scarier storys. Nothing to spoil. Did the film makers get a sense of achievement dear oh dear. My 9 year could and probably has written better an more scarier storys. Nothing to spoil. Did the film makers get a sense of achievement dear oh dear. My 9 year could and probably has written better an more scarier storys. Nothing to spoil. Did the film makers get a sense of achievement dear oh dear. My 9 year could and probably has written better an more scarier storys.

Totally boring. I know some reviewers state people these days are always wanting instant gratification when it comes to horror. They then go on to defend this movie as if they are somehow more sophisticated. I'm all for a good atmospheric slow burn but this totally boring. Endless piano in the back ground, TV and radio playing in the background watching the main character fall asleep not to mention endless landscapes. It is as if they are trying to calm you down ready for bed. The building of atmosphere is about setting a scene making you feel on edge but here it is the whole movie. Honestly I'd say give it a miss. I grow increasingly frustrated at the amount of amateurish or low budget dross that appear on Amazon. Sometimes you get a diamond in the rough but this is not it.

I suppose it's a sign of the times. People are so used to instant gratification in their films, if there's no gore or masked psycho, there's no interest. Winifred Meeks is very slow burn and builds its atmosphere gradually over the course of the film to a very tense and frightening end. No jump scares or cheap tricks needed. Though I have no idea why it was compared to "Don't Look Now" I can very much see the comparison to M. R. James. James had a great love for the English coast and used it often in his writings. Like James this film makes excellent use of the bleak English coastline, with it's dark brooding sky and feel of out-of-season isolation. I think this films biggest influence is James' "Whistle and I'll Come to You". Like that film the supernatural threat gradually grows, with the coast adding an ominous backdrop to the psychological drama unfolding on the screen until the unfortunate protagonist suffers a collapse, both physically and mentally. It's not a classic by any means and what it does, it does competently. It's not a film for everyone though, you need to be patient with it to get the full experience.

Honestly it was boring, and slow moving. There was hardly any dialogue, and instead there was a lot of silence filled with radio chatter, or the TV in the background. I think it tried to build up an atmosphere, but because it didn't really seem to focus on anything else it fell flat. The parts with the ghost weren't even scary, they were just there.

This begins with a kind of Universal films tribute - the opening credits come complete with Hans J. Salter's familiar 1940s music suite, and our heroine Anna James is listening to a Universal Sherlock Holmes soundtrack in the opening scenes (1946's 'Terror by Night', as it goes). Before much else happens, she settles down to watch 'Nosferatu' and Vincent Price in further classic old films. It seems that a deliberate decision has been made that identifying these vintage icons is far more interesting than anything else going on here - because for some considerable time, nothing else *is* going on here. Anna (Lara Belmont) wanders around the big isolated house she has rented. She sits down, stands up, arranges her laptop on a desk, walks around, and has a cuppa. Sometimes she is in daylight, other times in the dark. It is scintillating stuff. There are nice views of the rolling countryside, often with a blue filter over them. All to the strains of melancholy piano music reassuring us all this meandering is deliberate. This is the film. I very rarely watch a film and get the feeling I am having the mickey taken out of me, but this is the case much of the time here - how long can I watch someone doing nothing? I like slow-burning, atmospheric stories, and there is a remote ambience here; there are also a handful of genuinely eerie moments, but you really have to wait far too long for them. My score is 4 out of 10.

I thought this was supposed to be a psychological thriller. It's plays like a bad script written by an elementary school student. I don't know what was more irritating, the dialogue coming out of the radio or the phone calls from her parents that talk to her like she is a kid instead of the actress playing the part that clearly looks like she is atleast thirty years old.