XX

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Thankfully it was short. What should have been done was to extend the anthology by 20 minutes to give some sort of explanation to each of the segments. Avoid watching at all costs. Pointless. Unsatisfying Cliffhangers. This "movie" was such a waste that it is the first film to date that i have ever left a review on and i have been using IMDb for a decade.

A great assembly of highly skilled actors, directors and crew whose talents are wasted on nonsense. XX annoyed and frustrated me long after I watched it. I felt robbed! Nothing here that qualifies it as horror (which is what it's billed as) Split into four parts and they all suck in different ways. Part 1 aka the box is the most frustrating of the lot, all setup and no payoff-none. A mystery that never gets solved, just pointless. Part 2 aka birthday party succeeds in creating an unsettling tone, but ultimately, it too falls flat. I will now "spoil" the entirety of Part 3 aka don't fall - Four people go camping, one of them turns into a generic looking monster and kills the other three - that's it! That's the whole story. No compelling motivation, no nuance, no suspense or surprise, no mystery, nothing! I can only describe Part 4 aka his only living son as a low budget rosemary's baby-the teenage years. Once again, no suspense or twist to this thing, you know exactly what the deal is from the jump. At no point in any of the parts did I connect, root for, or feel anything for any of the characters. The one consistently good thing about XX is the sound design, which writes a check that the rest of the project just can't cash. Also overall good cinematography - as initially stated, these are all very skilled people which makes this anthology all the more disappointing. Everyone involved is capable of MUCH better than this. To use the gimmick of hyping it as an all female effort is an insult to talented and skilled women everywhere.

Directed by four different women, "XX" is divided in four sometimes promising but in the end deceptive segments: (1) "The Box": Near Christmas, Susan Jacobs (Natalie Brown) is going home by subway with her son Danny (Peter DaCunha) and her daughter Jenny (Peyton Kennedy). There is a man (Michael Dyson) with a box and the nosy Danny asks what it is. The man opens the cover and Danny glances inside the box. From that moment on, Danny does not eat anymore. Six days later, his father Robert Jacobs (Jonathan Watton) takes him to the Dr. Weller (Ron Lea) that can not find reason for the loss of appetite. When Danny tells Jenny the content of the box, she also stops eating. Then they tell to Robert what Danny has seen and he stops eating too. What is the mystery of the box? This intriguing tale has no conclusion and even the writer and director Jovanka Vuckovic probably does not know the content of the box. (2) "The Birthday Party": On the day of her daughter's birthday, Mary (Melanie Lynskey) finds her husband dead in his office. She tries to hide the body since the guests for the birthday party will arrive soon. Will she succeed? Maybe the intention of the director and writer St. Vincent would be to make a black comedy. However the result is a pointless and senseless annoying segment. (3) "Don't Fall": Four friends go camping in the wilderness and they find horror in the place. Written and directed by Roxanne Benjamin. "Don't Fall" is another terrible and forgettable segment where things happen without any explanation or character development. (4) "Her Only Living Son": Cora (Christina Kirk) flees with her son Andy (Kyle Allen) from her husband and lives in a small town. Near the eighteenth birthday of Andy, his behavior changes and he discloses his dark side. What will Cora do? Written and directed by Karyn Kusama, the dark "Her Only Living Son" is the best segment. My vote is four. Title (Brazil): Not Available

4 stories of absolute bull crap. This was the most eye rolling movie I seen in 5 years. I watch horror Z movies on Amazon prime movies with dirt for a budget that's 10 times better than this horse turd. I don't even think SJWs and White Knights can recommend this. Nothing was explained in this. If anything 3 out of 4 of these made the women look weak. I wouldn't recommend this crap if someone offers TO GIVE $5 TO WATCH.

There are 4 short films not related in any way in this movie. I found all the 4 titles very intriguing and creative. The reason you will like this is that each story does't beat around the bush by freakishly long thriller background music and exaggerated suspense plot. I consider all the 4 stories as authentic productions . The best thing about each short film is that it'll bind you completely but the ending will leave you wondering 'what could have happened next?', just the kind of feeling you experienced at the end of INCEPTION.It's at the discretion of the viewer to decide. Personally i liked the 1st story the most. Camera-work is amazing. Direction is amazing, effects are good for a low-budget movie. Overall worth a watch.

Proposing a collection of original shorts in a horror landscape over-saturated with remakes and old recipes is a daring proposition, with or without gender twist. XX delivers four 20 minutes works with an episodic animated sequence as interlude. While the animated part is simply masterful, the quality of the shorts varies. 1st Short: The Box. This short seems to draw an illustration of how a dysfunctional family would end up if closeted drama and shouting exchanges were replaced by a supernatural element. Rather ambient, it lets you wonder what to expect. Unfortunately, the conclusion misses the target and leaves you wanting something more elaborate. 2nd Short: The Birthday party. Expedited premise and hardly believable character behavior make this short rather weak. It seems to be intended as a joke and it sort of, kind of work if you're a good audience. Good material for fan theory, but nothing memorable. 3rd Short: Don't fall. Typical monster story, with all the clichés of the genre packed into way too little time to deliver any kind of tension. A success if you want to watch absolutely every (bad) monster film in 20 minutes, a failure if you're looking for anything else. 4rh Short: Her only living son. The best of the lot, with a tense ambiance from early on, and the only one with enough background to establish a more solid story line. The female lead knows how to act, and the dramatic arc is built better than in the 3 other shorts. Nonetheless, some of the narrative is expedited and make the story fall a bit flat. Ultimately, the bundle gives the impression that none of the stories were meant for the short format to begin with, and try to follow the same formula as full feature films while condensing it in 20 minutes. As a result most of the shorts rest on interesting ideas but none seems to know whether to be a trailer or a feature film, to the detriment of tension and narrative. It remains that there are far worse movies around. "The box" and "Her only living son" have a compelling second level of reading and can push your empathy buttons just right, and "The Birthday Party" might make you smile ("Don't Fall", though is a total miss). Funnily enough the 20 minutes format, as ambiguous as it is, also makes sure that no story overstays its welcome. I'll give it a 5 for effort and for the animation. Watch it if you want something a bit different, and for some good starting ideas if you're a fiction writer. Give it a rain check if you're looking for a mind-blowing work. The good: Interesting ideas + Good metaphors + Refreshing formula + Masterful animated intermezzos The meh: - Average acting - Narrative doesn't fit the format well - Soundtrack could be more subtle The bad: - The whole 3rd short (Don't fall). - The mood lapse between the 1rst and 2nd short.

Four short horror films, no linking narrative, although there is some decent Svankmajeresque stop-motion animation serving as transition: A boy loses his appetite after getting a glimpse of something mysterious; a woman discovers her husband's corpse on the day of her daughter's birthday; four attractive young people discover an Ancient Evil (TM) in the wilderness; and a mother deals with the discovery that her nearly adult son is disturbingly violent and yet everybody worships the ground he walks on. Production values tend to adequate-high, and effects are acceptable, but there are small issues with each section that leave the overall film feeling amateurish. They're generally small issues, and I expect the filmmakers to work them out for their next projects. Narratives are disappointing, generally from the lack of resolution-- although inconsistent characterization and unimaginable motives plague the second, making it the weakest. I can enjoy unresolved horror shorts in general, but it doesn't work here, not with the way these films are implemented; there's too much dragging along at each end, suggesting a reveal that never materializes. The first was my favorite, and I found it generally creepy, although, again, the resolution was handled poorly; there were also some instances of poor acting, and too much voice-over exposition. The "theme" of XX is apparently that all four films were directed by women, but there's not really any significance to that. If the title wasn't so eager to let me know, I wouldn't have realized it, and it kind of feels like painting a handgun pink for marketing purposes, a little dubious. Still, it's not a big deal to me, just a title. But after knowing, a few things stand out: the inversion of stereotypes for the parents in the first film; the unwillingness to commit to any crazy-lady characterization in the second, even though that's the only thing that would give the story even a lick of sense; the self-important and overly long soliloquy in the final film. (The only thing that maybe stands out in the third is that none of the attractive young people decide to disrobe, as they do so often in similar films.) I'd say that the first film is probably worth watching, but I wouldn't bother watching past that. Not worth paying money for. Still, there's no reason not to expect good things from the filmmakers in the future, as they find some better scripts and improve their techniques.

When the very poster draws heavy focus to the fact that the shorts are directed by women, one assumes that you will finally be able to see film through a female lens. Those in the film industry are frequently excited by the prospect of having the stories and viewpoints of women shown as it opens up stories that previously have been masked. Female characters frequently are left underdeveloped and masked in the backgrounds of features. You can imagine my disappointment to read that tag line on the poster, just to find that 3 of the 4 shorts are as generic and soulless as the dregs of the horror industry. The first 3 shorts are as uninspired, uninteresting and cliché as imaginable. 3 of the 4 stories feature white, middle-aged stay-at-home mothers, of which are the manifestation of what most people complain about when a female character is given minimal attention and effort from a male director. The 1st and 3rd short offer absolutely nothing we haven't seen before, and the 2nd short isn't even remotely within the horror genre. The director of the 2nd short has somehow managed to convince herself that adding loud, eerie music to a regular scene creates a horror short. The 2nd of the 4 shorts is vastly the worst, followed by the 3rd and then the 1st. The 4th short however is an interesting, if not still un-creative piece of horror. Whilst the 4th short feels reminiscent of films like The Babadook, it still manages to differentiate itself enough to warrant at least a 7/10. Ultimately generic, uninspired and frustrating. The intermission, stop motion segments are the pinnacle of this feature. 3/10

If you want to watch a ridiculous, boring movie where the short stories leave you hanging and never explain a damn thing this is the movie for you. Being that I cannot imagine anyone would want that I will say just stay far away from this terrible film. I watched the trailer, looked this movie up and saw that one of the directors did VHS and thought oh this could be great (the first two VHS movies I really enjoyed), well this had none of the same aspects I appreciated in those movies. Just to sum it up if you didn't get the point already terrible, aggravating, and ridiculous movie that I wonder why anyone even thought they should make.