This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

My quick rating - 5,8/10. This most likely is rated higher, but the supporting cast just dragged this down so much. I did still enjoy the Lynch,Cronenberg-esque style of this film though. Some very nice imagery used to set the tone, and the lead is just fit for the role. She plays an obsessive actress that will do whatever she needs to succeed (or in this case, just get a part). All of that of course leads to the downward spiral. Reading reviews using "disturbing" and grotesque" are a stretch, since the gore, nor psychological attack is not either, but it does seem to be a "hit home" thing that I would bet L.A. sees a lot in struggling talent. The trip to get to the end is enjoyable to watch, and the ending itself is very well done, and since I can't give spoilers, there are some nice nods to old cinema sprinkled in as well.

I'm very angry that almost 2 hours were wasted on this amateur movie, so this why am writing this review, it made me feel bad and angry.if it wasn't promoted as horror movie, then probably I wouldn't be disappointed and might be less frustrated, after 1 hour I hoped that maybe there will be sort of surprise from some kind of "creative" creators our there but, nothing changed, it remained boring as from the first minute.The last 10-20 minutes there was few bloody scenes (the main actress killed her friends), but based on that, you can't say it's a horror movie, because there was ZERO suspense.there was no interesting plot, no surprises , nothing mysterious that you the viewer could see and try to figure out until it's revealed , there is no such a stuff, but instead a monotonic character, desperate that hope to get a role for some kind of commercial or a movie, I even didn't care what that was due to the fact of many non-sense and crap that was there.to summarise the movie: A desperate young lady is ready to suck for getting role (and she did) , while portraying the interviewers and the producer as evil and belong to satanism groups (they wore pentagram symbolic accessories) , probably a metaphor to make them look evil and the "protagonist" as a victim, while this didn't happen , I couldn't sympathise the protagonist, so I'm not sure if producers wanted to do that by purpose or it's a mistake in the story. my overall impression was, that this movie was done by frustrated producers that are jealous from Hollywood's top successful producers so they made this film with lots of clichés and overacted/over-presented metaphors, that probably don't exist today or rare.So, yeah, this movie managed to make me feel like idiot that I continued watching it after 1 hour, or even after 30 minutes.

Comparing it to Rosemary's Baby??? Not even close! Rosemary's Baby had a plot, a REASON, an EXPLANATION, it made SENSE! This movie makes no sense. I'm only giving it 2 stars since it kept me watching until the end, hoping to make some sense out of it.At the beginning it seemed pretty good. Seemed like it was leading up to something interesting. But then it dragged on and on. Here's the spoiler: NOTHING HAPPENS. Other than the gory murders at the end. And some stupid cult yelling "Hail Astreaus!" (The subtitles misspelled the Greek God I think it was). Sort of like the slightly corny "Hail Satan!" at the end of Rosemary's Baby. Except in Rosemary's Baby they slowly let you learn about the cult, the people in it, what they were doing, what their origins were, and then let it all hang out in the end. Here, nothing. Just leads up to the end with a cult with no explanation, no background, nothing.If you like to see people's face get smashed into pulp with a dumbbell you can skip to close to the end. It's completely pointless. I don't mind seeing gore like that - I'd rather not - but if it has a point and a plot and makes sense then I don't mind.One little technical point. It's not that easy to stab someone to death. Especially a small girl stabbing a medium-size man. Normally they would fight back, not just sit there going "why?".One thing I will say is the lead actress Alex Essoe did an AMAZING job of acting, wow! She was a great actress, even acting being an actor. She was great. Too bad the rest of the movie was worthless.

I can see why this one was nominated for and won its awards, and I think they were well-deserved. I respect the acting and the direction, and there are a couple of stabbing scenes that are the most intense and realistic since "Zodiac" 2007.My personal problem with it, and why I did not rate it even higher, as it probably deserves from an artistic perspective, is that it just carried me too far into the dark side, and did so in such a believable manner, that it hit my threshold for it. I am sure for some, this will be exactly what they are looking for in a horror flick. For the rest of us, if we dare to watch this excellent, but disturbing film, well, you had better brace yourselves.I can believe the piece under the Trivia section posted by another IMDb contributor about the moviegoer who passed out at the New York premiere after having watched this movie. I am still trying to settle my stomach.