Sweetheart

Most of this film involves a woman trapped on an island, alone. Still, don't expect this film to be boring. The use of visual storytelling is quite impressive, and while it's not quite a masterpiece, it doesn't drag the way the premise implies it may.

Highly recommended for anyone who loves horror, or has a Castaway fetish.

So let's think about the budget this movie had, about the actors, the surroundings, the plot, and if we add all of them, it comes off as a beautiful effort. It doesn't have to take too much in order to make a nice little gem for yourself, and as shown here, with a right direction, you can achieve lots of things.

Sweetheart was interesting from start to finish, did not focus on more details than it should, it comes off as those lovely first 15 minutes from I Am Legend, but manages to continue like such, without divulging too much and simply staying on the story. You get to see more and more, to stick some pieces together yet always pay attention on what's important, and this I do believe it is the beauty of a simpler movie: less is more.

Sweetheart is an great example of how horror/survival/in the woods/ monster movie should present itself, not just copy this one, but come forward with the material after it was properly put together and gone through every little step. I salute Sweetheart and also recommend to you Prey (2019), tad bit alike, both decent add-ons to horror.

Cheers!

I am sorry... but if you are going to watch a movie about an African-American girl scout or Corporal Nola Darling, against an over-sized Gill-man, you better stop the cinéphile pretense and realize you are going to watch just that, so put on your Jack Arnold hat with a feather "a la Guillermo del Toro", and leave the intelligentsia pose for latter, when you sit to watch Díaz, Martell, Brillante, Reygadas, Alonso, Encina, Tarr and the rest of the crowd.

Quite original, wet, salty, sandy and scary horror movie if you ask me, even if it loses impact and power when we finally see the fish-man, and it turns into a hand to hand match between the woman and the thing. It tries to explain everything, but it also leaves a few questions unanswered, which makes it more intriguing.

I am glad I saw it, on this umpteenth "quarantine" Sunday night.

It's not bad but it's not good either definitely a mediocre film. Yes it delivered some degree of suspense large in part due to the concept and topic but the big reveal looked like something crafted from the 90's and with a very miniscule amount of backstory revealed on every character which counts up to be 5 it all just unravels like a run of the mill monster movie. The actor wasn't bad she has better films in her repertoire as a co-star but she handled the role well enough. I would recommend this film as something to see on a rainy day but nothing here was amazing or great.

Worth a watch just for the lead actress being able to carry this off with good style. Defo a talent on the rise here.