Cruel & Unusual

Cruel & Unusual

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Cruel & Unusual
Cruel & Unusual

Cruel & Unusual

6.6 | 1h35m | en | Thriller

Wrongly condemned for killing his wife, a man finds himself in a mysterious institution where he is sentenced to relive her death for eternity.

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6.6 | 1h35m | en | Thriller , Science Fiction | More Info
Released: April. 05,2014 | Released Producted By: , Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Wrongly condemned for killing his wife, a man finds himself in a mysterious institution where he is sentenced to relive her death for eternity.

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David Richmond-Peck , Michael Eklund , Michelle Harrison

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Merlin Dervisevic

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distancedself I, as well, stumbled across this on Netflix, oddly enough in the horror category. I guess they lump suspense and horror together. Anyways, it was a great find, my eyes were glued to the screen, though not right away. The first 10 minutes or so are off-putting considering the horrible acting by the foreign wife. She seems upset for no reason and screams and sobs in literally every line. Her acting just didn't match the rest of the cast who were very believable. It wasn't until the protagonist revisits that night when you can think her hysteria is somewhat rational. Luckily, she doesn't take up too much screen time where I turned it off before the story took off. It's a bizarre premise, counseling for murderers who killed their loved ones and are dead... this surely has a ton of unanswered questions. Luckily, it did not prevent me from enjoying this film and being satisfied with the ending. What happens when you gain acceptance? Do you leave? How is it possible that he changed the outcome of what already happened? And why would he still be there if he technically didn't murder his wife? Either way, you sympathize with the characters, even though they are murderers. Also, you can barely tell it's low budget. Well done!
Hythlodaeus There are a few unimportant details that prevent me from being able to vote this higher but in many ways this movie was a 10.This film blew me away. I was expecting it to be typical nihilistic garbage but I was surprised by the almost John Steinbeck way that at the beginning you have no sympathy, or even have hatred for the main characters, only to love them in the end as you realize that they are just like you. Also, they have a sort of nobility that you never expected.The film doesn't have much character development but the development it does have is absolutely amazing. Somehow the movie is absurdly dramatic in some ways, but the overall tenor is that it is beautifully understated and as such many people will not appreciate it.For those of you who have never struggled with an addiction or committed a crime, you will not understand the power of the group 12-step program scenes, the realization of who you are and what you have done that slowly dawns on a person. Also, if you have never been tempted to suicide or gotten into the heart and mind of a friend who is tempted to suicide, in order to help him or her, then you won't appreciate a lot of this movie.The scenes with the adopted son and mother as well as with the mother and her daughters, and even the one with the man next to the river, and the man and his parents, were some of the most memorable I've ever seen, memorable because they made me do the work as the viewer.Again, the power of the movie was what it didn't say, leaving the most important statements to the mind of the viewer, so that they can be said more powerfully than a filmmaker ever could. And in that way, my hat is off to those who made this film, they didn't pander to the audience, the movie held back so that it could be more than it would have been, giving the viewer space to learn about themselves as they watched.I came across this movie by accident on Netflix and almost didn't watch it. It is a great little gem.
HorrorOverEverything I don't want to say too much about this film since I feel like the less you know about it going in the better.For such a low budget they really did a great job with this. All the actors did a very good job, the story was excellent, and even the small soundtrack was memorable. The highlight of the movie is the original story, it's really an interesting idea and the movie does a perfect job of bringing the idea to life.I'll keep the review very short by saying that this is definitely worth seeing. I don't think it is an amazing film, but it is clever and very original, two things that many higher budget films fail at achieving.7.5/10
tubeist- dan 8/10 is as far as I can go for a low-budget movie, that cannot afford polished, high-end production value.*** This review may contain spoilers ***The theme is familiar enough for the fantasy genre: Someone must relive the guilt of a serious mishap in the afterlife—if that is what it is— and the 'afterlife', as is common in these sorts of movies, initially seems to consists of some kind of prosaic institutional setting (psych- ward? government secret mind-project?... one is left wondering).Our protagonist manages to effect a change in the course of the event(s), in a twist that is sufficiently original, along with excellent acting, scripting, editing, to warrant what we could call an 8 out of 8.