The Manor

I've seen over a thousand horror movies and this is among the worse. I'll enjoy a horror movie like Back Road, which has some bad acting but at least is fun and has good kills. This movie is absolutely putrid, I feel like 20 random people could meet at a bed and breakfast and make a better movie than this. I watched this movie for Kevin Nash but he's absolutely one of the worst parts of the movie. I genuinely would like to know how a movie this bad gets made. I honestly can't find a good thing to say about this movie. It doesn't deserve to have this much written about it but it's says I have too write a lot. The ones leaving 10s are absolutely bots.

I enjoyed he hell out of this movie! There have been a few 80's throwbacks in recent years that I liked, but this is the first that really made me feel like I was a kid watching something right off the video store shelf again! Everything from the exaggerated bad acting, the insane lighting, and the visual effects really gives this move the look and feel of an 80's flick. And to top it off, it's got a great ending! Love this movie!

...just brutal. Worst acting, worst writing...and worst directing that I have seen in a long time. Doesn't seem possible that the rough cut was viewed and then actually released as it is.

I really enjoyed this film! It's a breath of fresh air from all the same ghost story movies that Hollywood keeps churning out recently. The cinematography, directing as well as the score bring me back to the days of Carpenter and Argento.

Much like a pawn wanting to become a King, this movie wants to be more than it ever can be.

Several aspects of this movie are not where they need to be to create a quality horror/suspense film. I never got "sucked in;" I was always aware I was watching a movie. There was no part of this that felt like a real human drama; rather, it felt like actors playing parts, and your film is screwed when that's what's coming through.

Quality writing has a way of attaching your mind to the action in the film and drawing you in, and this simply does not do that. The script comes off as too simplistic for what this movie wants to be as a whole. The chess thing is not done terribly well and gets played through too simply (kind of like this last sentence I just wrote. Bleh.) The characters are relatively flat. Not much time is taken to learn about them, not much is done to develop them into anything past a two-dimensional image.

There's nothing else really that stands out either. Acting is meh, cinematography is meh. Story was relatively simple with some twists, a couple of which I don't think got flushed out.

I think there's something of an idea for a pretty good story here, but it's not explored properly enough.

All in all, far from the worst movie I've seen. It kept moving, which buys it a star. Still, not a lot going right for it. No reason to come back to this. There is something incomplete about the feel of this movie. Feels too generic like so many movies do these days.

If you're watching for Kevin Nash, he's got...maybe a dozen lines in this? He's not bad, but he's not good either. This had to be an easy paycheck for him.