maya-murphy's reviews

Horror happens always at night, in abandoned places, when no one is around to help, to see, to witness. Horror happens to only a few of us, the ones who are innocent already, the ones who are weak, the ones who are helpless. It seems that evil is a coward-entity, chickens out on places with many people and strong people and real adversaries. Evil is simply afraid, mushy, and has no integrity whatsoever. May that be how it is, Penny Dreadful is a film where this happens exactly by the book. By this I don't mean to put the film down. In the contrary. PD is an awesome story about to helpless women caught in the darkness, alone, and exposed to evil, or en evil entity. I had a great time watching this film and it scared the crap out of me. I love Mimi Rogers and felt the whole cast was doing a great job. I recommend this film to anyone and hopefully it will come out on DVD and I'll get me a copy of it. Go see it, it is scary!

To all the miserable people who have done everything from complain about the dialog, the budget, and the characters and plot, the this and the that....who wants to hear it? IF you missed the point of this beyond-beautiful-horrifying-reality movie, that's your loss. The rest of us who deeply enjoyed this movie do not care what you think. I am a thirty something guy who has seen thousands of movies, and this one stands in its own entity, in my book. It was not supposed to be a documentary, or a completely factual account of what happened to that family in 1818. It is the tale of a horror story never attempted this way. I know that it is the cynical 00's and the millennium has everyone going blah blah, but come on. Someone on this comments board complained that it was a bad film just because D&D was a bad film. How lame is that?. I will gladly side with the majority this time around. Okay, cynics, time to crawl back under your rock, I am done.