i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Best movie ever!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

This production is more than just a bit different, not sure what this could possibly be compared with. To suggest this deserves serious credit for an original concept in edgy psych thriller plot themes might be a bit of an understatement, though I will admit, shades of Mulholland Drive did come to mind.Even if edgy psych thrillers aren't your usual cup of tea, you might want to take a chance on this one. Far from being just a typical slash and gash nothing of a film, this one actually has a genuinely engaging plot, intelligently constructed and delivered through a series of existence vignettes which come together like an n-dimensional gig-saw puzzle.The challenge here is to describe what happens in this story, without stumbling across a possible spoiler threshold, so I'll keep fairly mum on specific plot details.A minimalist description would be a series of intersecting lives, wrapped around a particularly edgy violent scene at the start of the film, but this is not a gore filled series of crazy death scenes . . . though there will be some of that further into the plot. The important aspect here is that these scenes are not just gratuitously tossed in as punctuation plot points, but are genuinely integral to the composition of the story.That's not the point of the film. My take away on this was the bizarre but actually believable series of character studies of the people involved, and their own particular flavor of delusional fantasies that shape their chaotically unraveling lives, or what remains of them.The casting was superb, all of the main characters were spot on, but far and away, the real gem of this production is Kristina Klebe's portrayal of "Anika".A more perfect match for her hardened, knife edge sharp, tattooed persona could hardly be imagined.As for the creative construction and direction, this is by far Zack Parker's best work yet, at least in my opinion.Maybe it's a bit over the top for some, but I can go with a solid 8 on this one.

This film is definitely not for me, Im barely managing to get to the end of it and I'm only watching the end of it cause I want to know what happens. To me this film is really bad there is hardly any story to it and it seems to just be about a whole load of psycho people doing psycho things like getting there girlfriend to attack them and kill there unborn child. The characters in this film are seriously messed up. I like my horror movies but this is one of those horror movies that makes you bored out of your mind. I don't know what else to say thats how terrible and boring it was. The only good thing about it is that the acting in it is good but apart from that I am bored out of my mind. I don't recommend this film to anyone.

I didn't even know this movie existed until it was briefly reviewed by Red Letter Media. I was so intrigued by their review that I figured I'd give it a shot myself. Here are my impressions: This movies has a very distinct flavor to it that I can't quite put my finger on. There are rarely movies where I experience a genuinely eerie atmosphere throughout the length of the film ; this is one of those movies. It reminded me of the recent "Enemy" in that regards - doing a very good job in using the music, script, and cinematography to create an overall disturbing feel. However, I sometimes found a conflict in atmospheres. Whereas in Enemy, it is obviously meant to be a serious drama throughout the film, I could not tell if Proxy was trying to communicate an entirely serious drama (in which case it failed), a black comedy (in which case it at times succeeded), or if it was going for that Tim Burton vibe where the two are mixed together for their own distinct oddity. I'm gathering that it was probably the latter.I spend so much time saying that because it is very much an atmospheric movie. The character arcs are not overly complicated and once you understand their motivations, everything they do falls into place and makes sense. The movie itself is more a matter of piecing everything together to understand what those motivations are and how they can lead to almost amusingly pitiful and tragic events. The black comedy aspect in it might be entirely something I'm seeing alone - and I say that only because sometimes the actresses were going way over the top! I could not tell if they were purposely acting poorly at times or if they really wanted to come across as that comically insane or stereotypical. If it was purposeful, then I'm convinced it was meant to be a darker irony. If it was not, then there could have been some major improvements to the performances (hence the 6 out of 10). In any case - the secondary characters, passing doctors and teachers, etc, they without a doubt are questionably poor actors. Some could argue that maybe it was the script itself, and that they had bad material to work with? However, I am not convinced, as I felt a good portion of the script was conceivable and the portions that were less likely to occur could be passed off as a maniac rant or a stylistic soliloquy from the writers.However, I am gathering this was a lower budget film that, due to its edgier content, had a hard time attracting talent. For that, I commend the director for filming competently with what he had. Were some of these characters and plot points done before? Perhaps - but look at any movie. They're all derived from each other. In terms of originality, this is actually a breath of fresh air. Regarding the common complaints: edginess for the sake of edginess; accusations of misogyny; and seemingly flat characters. For the first one, I felt the entire point of the genre of this movie is to deal with and face the existence of edgy and dark content, so that complaint is null and void to me (though there was a bit of non-plot-developing sex scenes/implications involved). For the accusations of misogyny, I can understand where that complaint is coming from. You have a couple crazy women and then a highly cookie-cutter lesbian, but I have no particular complaints. If you go to any segment of society, there are people who are attracted to and abide by certain stereotypes. It just so happened that one character fell into that segment. Could Anika have been more of a person and less of a stereotype? Absolutely - I agree. But she wasn't a major character, so I won't nag. Otherwise, I don't see why the existence of insanity in female characters must thereby mean that the director/writer was trying to say all women are crazy. I just saw it as capturing the story of characters who happened to be women. The cast is overwhelmingly female (from the social worker, to the doctors, to the detective) - all of whom seem to be normal, average, sane ladies. So I don't see much of anything in the story saying "all women are nuts." Nope - just "all these women are normal - oh and here's a story about two characters who are nuts that are women." (However, I should say that I do agree that not all the dialogue seems entirely genuine to females specifically - but I felt it was appropriate for the characters themselves, regardless of gender, most of the time.) Lastly, as previously mentioned, some characters seemed rather flat. Their arc was limited and they experienced little development or fell very quickly into a trope. I'd have to unfortunately say that is true. Their depth is not in the complexity of their humanity - its more in the complexity of exploring their insanity. So the characters don't develop or change much as beings, but rather we get to see the consequences of the characters that they already are. And since they're pretty colorful as it is, I have no complaints.Conclusion? An ambitious film that did well with what it could and had some clever ideas about how to communicate a variety of well-hidden twists. I enjoyed it. But it is absolutely not for everyone. I'm curious about Mr. Parker's work now! I hope to see whatever he makes next if he's able to obtain a larger budget.Peace.

This review contains NO SPOILERS and I suggest you skip the reviews with spoilers until after you see the film.In my opinion this film is a gem in a sea of gravel. Although it could be more polished it nevertheless retains its value. The actors performances range from competent to stellar (Alexia Rasmussen was particularly impressive but everyone involved held their own and had their moments to shine) and this is in no small part due to good writing and direction. Cinematography is a similar affair ranging from adequate to mesmerizing. It is certainly a mixed bag but you'd be pressing pretty hard to go so far as to call any of it bad. I personally felt the score was superb and fit the tone of the scenes well.With the exception of a fairly brutal scene in the first act of the film there really isn't much violence or gore on screen here and what little of it there is was handled tastefully. Visually there is nothing here you won't have seen before. What makes it disturbing is the context, the emotional and psychological mayhem rippling through the characters affected and the cold distance maintained by those less/ unaffected around them. The behavior of the main characters may be extreme but they are the extremes of common conditions.This is where the film truly shines, as a study of the human condition when emotional needs are not satisfied, the common phenomenon of loneliness and isolation within a dense population and the resulting psychoses. The way empathy is handled in a clinical fashion by professionals and dished out superficially by peers when it suits their agenda, the way people within various relationships, genders (or rather, levels of masculinity or femininity within both genders) as well as how deserving a person may actually be of true empathy anyway are all bouncing off each other here and it's really engrossing to behold if this sort of thing interests you.I really don't want to spoil anything for any of the viewers for whom this film is intended so I hope it suffices to say that there are "twists" resulting from the nontraditional narrative structure that create an unpredictable thriller spliced with elements of drama/ horror. Every time I made an educated assumption of where things were headed the film surprised me and seemed to revel in doing so until the credits rolled.If you are the type of person who thinks a character in a film who happens to be of a certain gender or sexual orientation being portrayed as flawed is an accusation directed at everyone in that category or, more importantly, are enduring the loss of a loved one . . . viewer discretion is advised.I hope this film isn't lost in the horde of mediocre entries in the genre(s). From me this film scores a solid 8/10.