The Institute

Holy Moses! This is one bad movie. The Writer/Director/Star/Everything-man has zero talent and needs to get out of the business.

The writing is horrible. I mean the script is so poor it's on welfare. You won't see such horrible acting even in a Troma movie.

And the directing is so poor you'll be bored out of your mind before 15 minutes go by.

Honestly, I waited this out to see if there was any good nudity. There isn't. The sex scene is as boring as the film. Who's a thunk it?

Oh, and I didn't mention the musical score. It sucks too. The most annoying tracks you'll ever hear. This is just a really bad movie you will want to miss.

If you watch the trailer before watching the film you can clearly see that this is an ULB (maybe even no-budget) feature. As such you have to grade features like these on a curve. Does it trip up? For sure it does, but it's clear that a majority of the errors are budgetary. Look at their IMDb and you can see this was created by a bunch of first time feature filmmakers and knowing that I've seen A LOT WORSE. I hope these filmmakers get to make more movies.

It's not easy to make a good movie so I feel bad being this brutal but this movie has a lot of problems.

First of all, I was immediately turned off but the opening scene CGI which wasn't great - to put it kindly. The odd thing is there was nothing really like it in the rest of the film. Thank goodness. At least there are some more practical effects that show up closer to the end of the movie that were pretty decent. If you can't do good CGI you should probably just avoid it. (Pro tip from someone who's never made a movie!)

Secondly, the acting could use some work. Some of the performers sound like they are reading their lines from a teleprompter. The male main lead Daniel gave a decent enough performance. Marie was good at being topless... I'll leave it at that.

I liked the concept behind the movie but the plot was only okay. I could basically guess what's going to happen most of the time, so I feel like they needed to add something more unexpected for the story to remain interesting.

There's a few decent bits of cinema photography but other times it looks a bit like cheap video. Perhaps it needed some atmospheric lighting? I don't know.

In the end it's more of a background movie to watch while you doom scroll on Twitter or watch cat videos on Tik Tok.

Certainly a great attempt at using horror and creating a family. Interesting setup!

Some moments of real interesting execution. A fun campy film if you can see it that way.

What a waste of time. The script must have been written by a 5 year old. Way too much gratuitous sex and nudity. A sort of orgy that seemed out of place and unnecessary. Of course all female nudity and very little male nudity. Heaven forbid we see a man's genitals. If it was supposed to be a horror flick, it failed. The "special effects" were so bad, it looked like amateur hour. It was only creepy. In my opinion the acting was terrible. All the secondary characters were insignificant and were a waste. Jarred Harper is a good actor but was wasted in this movie. The ending was stupid and didn't give the audience any closure. Don't waste your time.