A retired cop links mysterious disappearances to a mystical urban legend.A retired cop links mysterious disappearances to a mystical urban legend.A retired cop links mysterious disappearances to a mystical urban legend.
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Robert Coutts
- The Entity
- (as Rob Coutts)
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A Pleasantly dark surprise
I went into The Empty Man not knowing anything about it. It was dumped out of nowhere and by the looks of the trailer I figured why. It seemed like a teen horror in the vein of countdown, truth or dare, or even bye bye man. But after the first twenty minutes of this film, I knew I was in for something much different. There is some truly chilling scenes in here, and the atmosphere just adds to the sense of dread. Now the climax of the film does get a bit clunky, but I imagine with this being based on a comic series, it's a lot more flushed out there, but even with an almost 2 1/2 hour run time, it felt like more was needed to be explained. Overall I came out of the empty man not feeling empty at all. It deserves an audience.
The 22 mins pre credit scene is amazing n cud have been a solid short horror movie. The remaining film reminded me of Angel Heart.
I saw this without watching the trailer or without reading anything bah it. Well, the pacing is its biggest issue but the movie is complemented with good acting, good lighting and a moody n surrealistic atmosphere.
The movie is captivating n creepy at times.
The first 22 mins is amazingly shot with oodles of atmosphere n some creepy stuff.
At first i thot this might be another rip off of Candyman, Boogeyman, Bye Bye Man, Slender Man, etc.
The movie is captivating n creepy at times.
The first 22 mins is amazingly shot with oodles of atmosphere n some creepy stuff.
At first i thot this might be another rip off of Candyman, Boogeyman, Bye Bye Man, Slender Man, etc.
A great premise
The opening sequence is fantastic and promises so much. Everything after that felt like the movie lost its way a little.
Not a bad movie, just could've been much more.
Not a bad movie, just could've been much more.
What the f?
Hard to determine if this was a good movie or if I even liked it because I had no clue what was actually happening.
What the WHAT?
I basically goes from awesome to a bit less awesome, then way awesome, to wtf. In a nutshell.
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Did you know
- TriviaOne of the last films from Twentieth Century Fox that was made before they were acquired by The Walt Disney Company. The film was quietly dumped into theaters and made so little money that even a home video release on DVD was deemed non-profitable.
- GoofsThe film is set in the US but was largely shot in South Africa and the overseas shooting is inadvertently revealed when the protagonist looks at a blank VHS tape. It's an E-180; videotapes of that format used in America would begin with "T" (e.g. T-180). The E prefix stands for "European" and is used for PAL/SECAM systems; the T prefix stands for "Television" and is used for NTSC systems.
- Quotes
James Lasombra: Yeah, no.
- Crazy creditsThe 20th Century Fox logo makes a surprise return in the opening of the film.
- ConnectionsFeatured in FoundFlix: The Empty Man (2020) Explained (2021)
- SoundtracksImmersion
Written by Brian Williams (as B. Lustmord)
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- Also known as
- Empty Man: El mensajero del último día
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,992,948
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,310,326
- Oct 25, 2020
- Gross worldwide
- $4,796,993
- Runtime
- 2h 17m(137 min)
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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