Geminate
Take a dead musician that wandered far into the occult, a cheap music studio, a camera and some crummy actors and you have garbage.Everything repeats in this movie, if you are too stupid to get the plot laid out before you once, they will spend the rest of the movie pounding it into your thick skull. By the time you watch the whole thing you swear you saw it three times - for those of us that do have a brain and are up and fully functional.You know it's bad when everybody dies, including the audience. Instead of moaning 'please help me' you will be screaming 'please kill me too'. The ending was one of those ultra-crappy ones, where they just have to jab you in the ribs one last time, so you have to run right out and vomit this thing out of you mind. If you have talent you might be able to forget what you saw in under 24 hours.I really can't imagine any section of movie goers actually liking this trash, so I would say that no one of any age will like this film. Not only should you not see this but you also shouldn't mention or remember that you ever heard of it.
Lucretius
Okay, so I love a good horror movie. And I don't mind a few clichés. But what I hate more than death or taxes is goofiness. American horror too often goes for the goofy or the gross-out, and a lot of whatever genuine creepy you might get out of the concept is dissipated by the Beavis & Butthead-level jokes.Reverb has none of that in it. What it does have is a somewhat standard horror trope--think _Cigarette_Burns_, if you've seen it--played absolutely straight for all the chills it can muster. There's a good performance by the female lead, who I hope to see more of. There's also some fine camera work (the lighting of the studio is a natural) and a nuanced bunch of cheap audio jump-thrills.Now there are some plot holes. For instance, who might have been holding the camera in a pivotal bit of video (nobody mentioned could). There's also an awful lot of yelling at the screen, 'Just get out! No, dude. Just get out!' But I'll forgive a lot for a genuine chill or two, and I got them.I don't know what movie the last reviewer saw, but this one's a pretty effective and moderately original bit of Brit-horror. 8/10, because frankly, low-budget horror has a pretty low bar.
redsaga
I love good movie thrills but haven't been able to get one in a long time. There are many movies out there, newly released, that I watched with pretty high expectations. After a number of those - and always ending up being totally disappointed I learned not to expect too much before I sat down to watch Reverb.From the very first minute the suspense and discomfort starts to build up with flashes of weird and dark pictures show up on the screen along with shrieks and loud sounds that I imagine will make many people jump. Although I'm not a huge fan of jumpers I have to admit that the director managed to do this one good.The movie keeps the viewer in discomfort until the end, much thanks to sound and image. Reverb is far from perfect but with little expectations I was definitely pleasantly surprised.***POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW***Alex is a musician who together with Maddy, a friend and band member, locks himself in a studio in hopes of getting a boost in his career. They discover unpleasant voices and crying in an old song that Alex wants to sample.As time goes and more weird stuff happens Maddy gets more and more convinced that something bad happened while that old song was recorded and decides to find out what happened while desperately trying to stop what she thinks is about to happen.
khunia
and then a movie such as this comes along, please do yourself a favour and do not watch this movie, by doing so you will in the process do a favour for the entire world and encourage these people to NOT make anymore movies, EVER again. The rating for this movie was 8.3, which i surmise is from those involved with this debacle of a film. The acting is terrible, well EVERYTHING is terrible, problem is, this movie has quite a good storyline behind, however i would have found more enjoyment reading the book. It isn't very often that I want to throw something through my own television, well I now know how far I can be pushed and I hope to god i never ever revisit that place ever again. After getting halfway through this farce i turned it off and thought to myself "What The?", so my recommendation stay away from this movie like it has the black plague.
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