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Damian Mc Carthy has a gift, he has been able to create a lot of hype for me with his two feature films (Caveat and Oddity) and in the end I felt totally and utterly ripped off.

What a way to create environments that give to scare to f* fear! And what a way to waste them with long pauses of nothing, followed by moments where absolutely nothing happens, to continue with a little bit of that thing that makes you despair even more for not knowing how to use it throughout the footage.

I'm a fan of films that cook slowly, but this film is absolutely raw, making you feel almost robbed when they bring you the bill at the end.

I approve because after stumbling twice on the same stone I feel that the director has won me over. You know the saying, once it's your fault, twice it's mine.

Ryûhei Kitamura continues not to sell himself. He may not be a genius in this celluloid, but he has his own style, very specific and only suitable for a certain group of audiences and that is something that unfortunately is becoming less and less common.

In No One Lives he gives us two cups of his usual medicine with a wonderful bloodbath and without pretensions of wanting to be more than entertainment, and that's a lot. And that's also why we forgive him his hollow dialogue and some slowing of the narrative pace, even though it's quite light.

Luke Evans and Adelaide Clemens are well above the rest of the cast and that deepens the virtues and flaws of the film.

In summary, if you like a well-filmed and photographed gore fest without intellectual pretensions, this is the movie for you. On the other hand, if you are one of those who enjoy a more elaborate and cultured cinema, run away from here, lest you do not survive either.

After the bad reviews I had read on several websites, I didn't have any faith in this movie.... but until you see it you can't say anything. It's a good drama with touches of sci-fi and horror. The fact that the whole movie takes place in an apartment may put off a type of viewer looking for more action, but in my point of view this fact plays totally in its favor.

The film shows us a very tough mental illness. The fear of the outside world is creepy on its own and as someone who knows what the subject is about, for X circumstances, I can only thank the director and screenwriter James Croke for the respect they show for this disorder.

Two separate mentions deserve the two leads - Alexis Ren as Jen, Hana's (Sasha Luss) only friend and her contact with the outside world is very tender, almost romantic and inevitably tragic. Alexis embroiders it. And what about Sasha Luss in her role as Hana, the woman whose world is based on video games, with a tragic past and a no less sad present. Both of them shine with their own light.

Special mention to the special effects, which fortunately are more effective than gimmicky.

A film full of details that does not deserve such a bad review.