Varboro

How disappointing ! I was expecting a good movie about a very interesting subject, but the only interesting thing here is the opening credits. Cliché, caricatured characters, spoiled idea, lame acting, After the 15th fist minutes you make your own movie about the deja vu feeling. You can guess the rest of the movie and you'll sure win because it is more than predictable, just add cliché after cliché. No, I must admit there is something I couldn't predict : There is no explicit sex or nudity exposed, not even that to save this poor movie from oblivion.

The base idea was good, the cast OK, the layout excellent, and everything went wrong. Why ? I don't dare to say because it is a mundane American low-end movie just to make some money out of minimal investment. Keep this for teenagers willing to spend an evening and needing an excuse to give to their parents while they are doing anything but actually WATCH the movie. And they should really do something else, like homework. and for grown adults, I see no excuse to waste time watching this when there is more interesting things to do, like wash the dish or fix a leaking pipe in the bathroom. Don't be fooled, this is not about ecology, it is a cheap would be horror movie. There are lots of better movies, and a few worse, but you are on your freewill. I just give my own opinion here. If I have sacrificed 1h30 of my own life to spare it to some people I'll be content.

Wasting time watching a boring movie is a pain already. But when the movie is that long, boredom becomes a torture. If there is something I'll keep from this movie it is the fear to have to watch it again.

I didn't read Barker's short story, and I hope it fails as an adaptation, otherwise it means it is a bad novel. The plot is so thin it could fit on the back of a post stamp. It deserved to be released as a short movie, 10-15 minutes, not 108 minutes.

The story is inconsistent, but I won't discuss it here, because I don't learn philosophy or psychology by watching movies, I seek entertainment, I got none here. Moreover, I fell for the infamous abstruse trap : As I already wasted my time and money I forced myself to watch it to the end instead of stopping it and do something I like. This is the positive side : I learned from my mistake, and had the occasion to experiment auto manipulation and stubborn persistence, practical psychology in action.

Acting is good but the characters are so artificial and shallow they act like morons, not like human beings. Problem, it is not a sci-fi movie featuring martians, they are supposed to be earthlings. But it is hard to believe.

Perhaps it is good for Clive Barker's fans, or some people more used to this kind of movies, feeling things differently, I don't know. I just share my own feelings, and for me it is a complete failure, and one of the worst movies I had the misfortune to watch.

6 short stories of uneven quality full of gore, violence, sex, drug, nudity, candy, profanity and utterly mad people. never frightening but disturbing and often disgusting. Really, really, really unsuitable for young public.

The stories are very different, Too bad the first one makes a bad first impression. It is the only one I found misplaced here, it is a classic horror story with a Lovecraft background and shallow mundane characters. It could be good in a longer better written and more developed version. But all the others are about a lot of madness and twisted love, culminating with the last one, surrealistic and blasphemous, ending with a perverted vision of Da Vinci last supper. I like it. A lot. Of course I wouldn't watch this kind of movies everyday but for a change it is very nice... Well, nice is not exactly the word.