The Appointment (1983)

Lack of good storyline.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

One of the worst movies ever. And I hate Edward Woodward One of the worst actors ever. Boring, Slow, Garbage! Current 6.0 score is a joke!The beginning was great, with the girl walking the path and then suddenly being sucked into the woods. Watch the first 3 minutes then shut it off. That happened apparently 3 years before the rest of this crap. So, 3 years later. No significance to the dates. We are introduced to the boring Mr. Woodward and his mechanic, wife, and spoiled rotten 14 year old girl. All of this is complete trash writing, put forward with crap acting by Woodward and the rest. But Woodward takes the cake for some serious crap acting. He was just as bad in The Wickerman, possibly worse film than this. Christopher Lee should have been ashamed of being in that film. He was also in a lot worse. His Dracula appearances had great presence, but still his acting was always trash. Mr. Lee was more of a fashion model, rather than an actor. Now, Woodward, what a name! Maybe he's the namesake for wooden acting. His character here acts exactly like the Wickerman character. I'm sure if you knew him personally, he probably acted the same.Technically, the cinematography was good. The editing and pacing sucked. Too many repetitive scenes, slow and boring. The music was competent. The sound effects were boring. The story sucked all over the place. We don't know what is going on. There's some dog references, with a truck with dogs with horns painted on it. Nothing is explained. And anything can be implied. Was this some kind of Omen copy? I don't know.So, what we are left with is a boring, slow, crap of a movie. Watch the first 3 minutes, then dream of a better movie in your own head.F, 1 star. Forget-about-it!

British businessman Ian (Edward Woodward) disappoints his young daughter (Samantha Weysom) by telling her that a sudden meeting will keep him from seeing her big violin recital. She is crushed and there is tension in the family all night, to the point that Ian yells at his daughter. This leads to both Ian and his wife (Jane Merrow) both having bizarre dreams involving some hell hounds and Ian losing control of his car. Naturally, this does not bode well for his upcoming drive to his appointment.While this won't replace THE WICKER MAN as Woodward's best horror movie, this is a pretty enjoyable horror film with an incredibly sinister undertone. Basically, the daughter is in cahoots with some kind of demonic force that she unleashes to take out whomever (school rivals, her own father) makes her angry. It should be stated up front that the film is incredibly tempered and anyone expecting flat out scares throughout will be disappointed after a rousing opening where a girl is sucked into the woods by a unseen force. Woodward is good as the pushover father who finally decides to show a bit of backbone and the rest of the cast is fine. And while you will probably map out what is going to happen to Woodward long before he does, the film ends with an absolutely spectacular car crash. It's FINAL DESTINATION for old folks! Director Lindsey Vickers only made this one feature length film and that is really a shame because this is great moody stuff.

This movie reels you in right from its opening scene where a girl is sucked into some bushes. Then you watch expecting something else creepy like that first scene, but do you get it? The answer to that my friends is a resounding 'No'! This is a very dull movie, and if there is one thing I can't stand a horror movie to be it is for it to be dull. A bunch of dream sequences and this and that and then an event happens the next day where there is a car wreck and then the payoff. The main problem is I do believe this premise was stretched out a bit too much. This might have been a rather good short story, but there was just not enough stuff here for an hour and a half movie.

Possible (very) minor spoilers.The Appointment is, it seems, a very obscure film. I don't know if it was ever theatrically released in the States, and the videotape isn't especially common.For most people, the mention of British horror conjures up Hammer-style period images of castles, capes, etc. Here, the approach is decidedly different, as the film takes place in a modern, fairly innocuous Northern suburb and on a series of brightly-lit country roads. Edward Woodward and Jane Merrow are having trouble with their spoiled daughter Joanne (Samantha Weysom), who has ways of getting what she wants. Her pubescent routine is disrupted when Daddy is called away on business, forcing him to miss her school concert. Joanne is not happy...and Daddy, strapped into a rented Ford Granada, is in for a very disturbing journey.The film's dry, uniquely British detachment will make it rough going for some, but it is definitely worth the trip. An extremely interesting look at horror in the places you would least expect it, The Appointment benefits from solid acting and striking use of sound. There are plenty of haunting, surprisingly beautiful visuals--some shocking (the scene in the auto garage), others very subtle, but always with that undeniable disturbance in the peaceful English atmosphere. With an excellent climax, definitely not for the weak-hearted. Too bad Lindsey Vickers never made any other films. Make an appointment to see it...provided your schedule is already clear, of course.