Entity (2012)

Good movie but grossly overrated

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

One of the most boring movies that I saw this year, the acting is terrible, the story is boring, the fake reviews in IMDb from people who claim that the movie is awesome only made things worse, possibly all of these reviews are done from people who work for the producer or something.I almost slept in the opening 20 minutes, the first 2 minutes were really promising, I thought that this movie would be something fairly nice, maybe one of those low budget - but still fairly enough good movies, but this one is a total waste of time.So if you didn't yet watch this movie then consider yourself lucky and do yourself a favor and avoid it, unless you are looking for self punishment :)

Subscribed to Fangoria of course this flick was heavily promoted by them because it was a Fangoria release. Thought it would be strong and good even as it was a low budget flick coming from the UK I was rather sadly disappointed.It's one of the thousand found footage flicks but this time it didn't work for me. It has all the typical elements, a forest, a dark house, torches, Russian accents and a history of the past concerning all elements from Russia that were scary back then. But from the first minutes the film is started I knew this wasn't going to be my thing. When the first ghost appears in the forest it was done rather laughable. When we see the execution of prisoners even that wasn't my thing, sure, being shot in the head could look gory but it didn't.Around the 55 minute things go wrong with a lot of bad images and loud sounds but then again that was it. So far the most creepy thing was the prisoner in the opening sequence. I never found it scary at all. This isn't a Blair Witch or even Paranormal Activity. You better go watch the real Entity (1982).Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

Saw this at the LIFF where it deservedly won Best Horror. The acting is really strong. Will be watching Charlotte Riley's future with interest. I hear she has already landed a lead female starring role opposite Tom Cruise. I feel the director has given a masterclass in making a low budget film look anything but. I enjoyed the psychological horror as am not a great fan of gore. Not as many jumps as the Paranormal Activity series. This stuck with me for some time afterwards like The Blair Witch Project did and provoked me to scurry off to google to research into the historical background given as fact in the film and whether it was based on stuff that really happened in The Cold War. For me this adds to the scare factor. The sound was impressively frightening and in the peaks of the film I had my hands over my ears and squinting through my eyes. Win for me.

The movie follows a crew of British filmmakers lead by comrade Fake Accent through the Russian equivalent of the Blair Witch forest filmed in UK, so that they could shoot a shaky cam documentary about ghosts.At first the movie looks like it's going to tell a story about some real brutal Russian stuff - a serial killer like Chekotilo, or a story of some 90's Russian mafia massacre: these things were real and they did take place in forests like this, which would make the movie really scary and uncomfortable.But instead, the movie falls victim to all the Russian stereotypes you can imagine, including KGB, secret spy stuff, Luger pistols et cetera - I was surprised the crew wasn't attacked by bears on unicycles. It takes away from the story very much.But the movie still was somewhat interesting to watch, it creates atmosphere and tension, and the scenes which were supposed to be scary do look pretty scary.