a fun watch, definitely a quirky thriller, in only the best possible meaning of the adjective. i will say that if you're not familiar with what it's like to live with or know someone with mental health issues, it will be extremely difficult to empathize with the lead. she is a deeply imperfect protagonist and to care about what's going on, you have to care about her. i mean, it's hard to care about her; she's a pathological liar with boundary issues. but it's interesting, and engaging, and her own story is wrapped up in the resolution of the film. and that feels good.
Disappearance on Clifton Hill is more like a disappearance of your valuable time on an absurdly cliche masterwork in hot garbage.
Canadian so-called “mystery” that feels like a overwrought cut-scene for a bad video game. Spare yourself this blithering tax write-off for whoever financed it. One dimensional over-dramatic cast of characters lack a single iota of purpose running around like headless chickens at the whim of a personalitiness cliche female brooder. Yes, I found myself wondering by act 2 why she even cared about what she was doing hunting down a crime she witnessed at 7. From scene to scene I kept wondering how such a purposeless film could get made let alone cameo David Cronenberg, who is as terrible an actor as can be despite his directorial brilliance.
Cronenberg himself, as a cinematic icon of psychological horror, being in this poor excuse for some kind of deeper level of corruption in the movie budget bizness reveals much. Not to diverge on why awful movies like this are drowning streaming services (corruption in the movie biz on all levels) but when I found out David “F*ckin” Cronenberg was physically in this movie, playing a conspiracy theorist boomer, I felt a need to react.
If you don’t figure out the end of this ronk-fest within the first 5 minutes you deserve to be trapped in a cabin and only have this garbage to watch for eternity. If you’re a film geek like me watch it for Cronenbergs cameo and balk at the levels of horrible the rest of the cast, script and so-called “mystery aspects” are — tropes so simple to predict they point to evidence of my assertion this was a “scam film”, seemingly contrived by the Producers tax illiterate fourteen year old step-daughter to skimp on script costs while still receiving a hefty payday on this bonafied loss unopportunity.
The film loses its way a little towards the end, tho the payoff was sweet. Half of a good film - with more focus, it could have been much better
I am a native of Western New York so I thought that I would give this movie a chance because it was filmed right in my back yard. I was a little skeptical at first as the movie started and there was this ridiculous and unnecessary foreboding music playing behind some dramatic and semi-dramatic events. This passed after about 20 minutes and the film really seemed to find itself. I watch a TON of indie movies and it isn't uncommon for the script, acting or sound to be questionable. Thankfully all were in good order in this film. As the film neared the end it really kicked into another level before finishing with an excellent and unexpected scene that really turned the whole movie on its head and left me thinking about it the next day.
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Shout by jennieBlockedParent2024-03-10T04:44:40Z
this movie did not make any sense :sob:
also no idea what was going on with the soundtrack but they had the most absurd music playing