Winifred Meeks

The worst thing I've ever seen. There's nothing good to say about this film. An hour and half of suspenseful piano music and a bit of screaming. Nothing scary, no storyline. Terrible. I'd give it a zero if it was possible.

I read reviews about this movie and it sounded interesting, a mix of drama and supernatural, something I used to like about British movies when I was a lot younger. First there was the radio drama, playing loudly during a car ride to where she was staying. Why? I'm guessing to cover up the very loud piano music that did not cese playing after. I got the part of "and a happy new year" which played over and over. Why? I do not care if a movie will eventually end up being great, I care about my sanity having to here someone playing bad Chistmas music that has zero to do with anything. Made it to 12 minutes and 22 seconds. Not the first movie with some ego maniac playing loud piano music, is that an insane new movie genre?

Almost no plot in this film and what there was of a plot was spun out at a glacially slow pace. Indescribably and cripplingly dull.

The absence of plot is inhabited by characters who, if not almost as tedious, are of zero interest. The viewer is given nothing and no one to care about and merely waits - in vain- to see if anything of interest will happen. It doesn't.

The photographic production and ambience of the film is quite good - if only the crew had been given a decent story to work with.

A shame that everyone involved in this production wasted their opportunity to create something of merit.

This begins with a kind of Universal films tribute - the opening credits come complete with Hans J. Salter's familiar 1940s music suite, and our heroine Anna James is listening to a Universal Sherlock Holmes soundtrack in the opening scenes (1946's 'Terror by Night', as it goes). Before much else happens, she settles down to watch 'Nosferatu' and Vincent Price in further classic old films. It seems that a deliberate decision has been made that identifying these vintage icons is far more interesting than anything else going on here - because for some considerable time, nothing else *is* going on here.

Anna (Lara Belmont) wanders around the big isolated house she has rented. She sits down, stands up, arranges her laptop on a desk, walks around, and has a cuppa. Sometimes she is in daylight, other times in the dark. It is scintillating stuff. There are nice views of the rolling countryside, often with a blue filter over them. All to the strains of melancholy piano music reassuring us all this meandering is deliberate. This is the film.

I very rarely watch a film and get the feeling I am having the mickey taken out of me, but this is the case much of the time here - how long can I watch someone doing nothing? I like slow-burning, atmospheric stories, and there is a remote ambience here; there are also a handful of genuinely eerie moments, but you really have to wait far too long for them. My score is 4 out of 10.

As I sat down to watch the 2021 horror movie "Winifred Meeks" from writer and director Jason Figgis, then I was expecting to see a horror movie, as it was labeled as a horror movie here on IMDb. But instead I was in for a movie of absolute boredom and something being really remote from being a horror movie.

Well, unless you consider a whole movie of virtually nothing happening as horror, then by all means "Winifred Meeks" is pure horror.

The storyline told in "Winifred Meeks", as written by Jason Figgis definitely sounded good on its descriptive synopsis, but wow, translated to the screen it was pure torment to sit through. This movie was so uneventful that you could watch the first 5 minutes, leave, and then come back for the last 5 minutes and you wouldn't have missed a single thing of the movie.

And I must admit paired with the synopsis, then the movie's cover and the fact that it had Lara Belmont in the lead role were good selling points to the movie, and it definitely had set up some expectations to the movie. And director Jason Figgis just delivered 1 hour and 28 minutes of nothing.

I do enjoy horror movies and have seen more than my share, but "Winifred Meeks" is definitely a top contender for being a pointless and boring horror movie. If you are a fan of the horror genre, then you must do yourself a favor and stay well clear of this 2021 train wreck of a movie.

This is a movie that could potentially be used in studies to cure insomnia. Talk about being boring. It was just uncanny.

My rating of Jason Figgis's "Winifred Meeks" lands on a generous two out of ten stars, based solely on the production value of the movie.