The Worst Film Ever

The Age of Commercialism

I wanted to but couldn't!

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.

I liked it. Average score of 5.3 is really low for this one. It's not a classic or a masterpiece, but it's well directed, spooky and I even found it quite consistent. I really like these psychological sort of horror movies rather than splatter gore stuff. The cast is mostly adults here and of course the children, but this movie is clearly not aimed at young audience, but rather for people a bit older, parents of children will probably feel it the most as it is about loss of a child.I was a bit bummed to read that the author didn't like this (if the review really was his), but then again, I don't know if original authors ever do like adaptations. I think the movie works pretty well, even tho there are a few twists that might confuse. I think they were handled quite well actually.Only downside I could figure out is the sound editing and fx. They did go where the fence is lowest and add cheap fx where appropriate. You really wouldn't have needed an fx every time something a bit scary hits the screen. Maybe I'll try to watch this without sound later.Give it a shot if you like spooky horror. The scenery is really nice to look at if nothing else.

First off - to the positives. This movie is beautiful in terms of cinematography. The locations where they filmed looked like really beautiful places. However The cinematography is not all this movie has to stand on (Why would I give it 7 then?).The acting of this movie - in terms of the genre is actually very redeeming. I have seen a couple of horror films in the past and I have seen actors look blankly when they're supposed to be scared (I've seen a few of the "worst movie of all time" votes). Maria Bello and Sean Bean are very good actors and it shows in this movie.Without the scares this movie in terms of writing also is very good (becausee this is the same person who wrote Ginger Snaps 3 I was very surprised) you know the emotions that Adele and James are going through. A previous reviewer compared it to the Spanish movie El Orfanto (The Orphanage), The drama portrayed in El Orfanto is much better in comparison. I just thought I'd point that out.So as far as movies that are basically devoid of any scares (but mainly due to the sound engineer putting in every cliché imaginable) this is worth the watch.

Adelle (Maria Bello) and her daughter, Sarah (Sophie Stuckey) visit James (Sean Bean) on the Welsh coast. When Sarah is presumed drowned, Adelle does not give up the fight to find her daughter alive......and who is the strange girl, Ebril (Abigail Stone) who suddenly appears...?The story is a scary one with an original plot, if a little complicated at times, especially near the end. But the story will scare you if you are wanting to be scared. You won't guess the end as there are several twists and just when you think it's all over......it's not.......and then it's still not......and then again.... It's definitely one to watch again. Not sure about the effectiveness of sheep as a scary animal form, though. There are a few loose ends that are left unresolved but so what.

Look, I would just like to add my voice to this. I wrote the novel, Sheep. The film is 'adapted' from my book the exact same way a pile of rubble is 'adapted' from a house. My book is a slow, serious thriller on the theme of contamination, of land, of food, of livestock, and of minds. It is about ritual purity, conformism and the category-error that is literal biblical belief. It is, in short, about something. None (NONE!) of the filmmakers had read it, they just had a script based on another script, and were highly indignant when my agent suggested they actually read the original.The film takes some of the visual gestures that animate the book (sheep diseases, religious mania etc), but then scoops out all the surrounding connective tissue, everything that makes the book make sense, replacing it with some kind of pulp which looks to me as if the writer was shaken violently awake in the middle of the night and asked to regurgitate the story lines from the last five horror movies he had seen, except his notes got all scrambled up - the result being a sort of plot-pudding, full of screaming and running about and unexplained (unexplainable) twists. No disrespect to anyone, and I know what sort of pressures the screenwriter was under, but the film does not, in any sense, 'adapt' Sheep, the novel. Sheep is a careful, thoughtful book, with a meticulously worked plot. It is also (I am informed) scary (one reviewer said it was the only thing he had ever read which did actually scare him), which the film of course, despite its most strenuous efforts, fails completely to be. The book is not about some vague Disneyfied version of Welsh mythology (nice and safe and distant in these troubled times), it is about Christianity, the Bible: about what happens when religion turns to madness. The scariness is in the waiting, the hinting, the accumulation of detail, drip by drip. It is about fearing, dreading, while something unfolds which cannot be understood until it is too late. I may not have succeeded in any of this, but I was trying. The film just flaps about from one random thing to another, papering over the cracks with tiresome 'shock' effects and Maria Bello screaming.Copies of Sheep are hard to track down now without paying a lot of money, but I would love it if the people who were disappointed in the film were to read the book. Please don't judge the book (or any of my other books) because you didn't like The Dark: there is almost nothing connecting the two things. Give the book a try: you'll be surprised.Thanks for your time.