Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Psychological Horror/drama/thriller is one of my very favorite genres and I do very much appreciate slow burn, art house or bleak films with a good & interesting story & at least some reasonable characterization. Now, here this is a film that centers around a woman named Martha who escapes from a Manson-family like screwed up cult group & then starts living with her sister in a beautiful lakeside cottage. But as she tries to adjust back to a normal life, she is continually haunted by the memories of her life in the cult. The premise was fine & the acting was convincing but the problem lies in the story progression as it was soo boring & dull that in the midway of the film I was kind of asking myself "what & why the hell I'm watching this shit anyway?" But as I have a great tolerance for shitty movies so I finished the movie where nothing actually happens in its 100 minutes running time. The story goes back and forth with some negligible scenes on Martha's life in the cult and a new 'beginning' with her sister but there was actually no development of anything. Though it tried to focus too much on Martha's "increasing" paranoia about her guilt ridden life back in the cult but there was no single interesting incident happens or they shared with the audience or they couldn't even able to show something properly. This is not something like a "thinking person's psychological drama"; this is straight away a very much dull movie that only has the capacity to waste your time.
>>: C-
Deadheads (2011)
Not bad; just an okay Zombedy.
>>: C