Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Edward Tubbs Having seen this film at the recent festival here in LA I thought I'd add my two cents to the debate. This is certainly a film that polarizes opinion isn't it? This is very much the work of a beginner but we should be able to criticize this film without resorting to epithets such as describing the writers of negative comments here as Nazis. It perhaps shows the level of immature persons that this film is aimed at. The film is obviously a case of style above content and though the plot is a familiar one (teenagers are picked off one by one by a monster) the makers have put in a bit of local color to distinguish it from the American product. I would not describe it, unlike some other commentators as a work of art (it's just a slasher picture) or comparable to masters of suspense like Kubrick or Spielberg. Longueurs abound in the middle. let's hope the director gets his hands on a decent script next time to show us if he's capable of adding anything significant to the art of cinema.

loollisten firstly i was really shocked by those extremely negative comments below, so i decided to write this. so: i watched the movie on the la indie film fest with a bad subtitles, in horror program. there's a lot of dialog and it is NOT the horror movie. in-spite of this the film made strong impression to me, i lived it like a piece of lifetime, and i, the watcher, was changed by this movie. - this film DO NOT "entertain". art DO NOT suppose to "entertain" you. if it does, that's good for you, but entertainment is not the aim of real art - watch TV, go circus, make parties, if you need to have pleasure of just spending some funny relaxing moments. What i saw is no doubt a masterpiece, i don'n know the director but i prefer to be in "co-" with Ruminov then with some angry foolish guys (yes, YOU) which do not see, hear, feel art itself, blind mouses in a rat world of kitchen "likes-dislikes", those nazi. If you have bad taste that is your tragedy, what you see from your small eyes is not the reality. try to understand art, or don't talk and write about what you Don't understand.do not try to Analise the landscape if you are blind. don't try to Analise the movie by matching it with some other you luckily just saw. We need to fight for art if we want it to stay on this planet! Do not let them turn the art of cinema into the huge nazi fast-food! So again: this is a great movie, but it is frightening that there soon will be no viewers of such art anymore.

valkorn This ain't you typical horror flick, although director Pavel Ruminov makes you think the opposite for the first ten minutes or so. It soon gets obvious that this film is much more sophisticated and thought-provoking than The Ring and other Japanese horror remakes/originals. The whole "ghosts of drowned girls seeking revenge on humankind" premise serves as a backdrop to an eclectic thriller that's rich in social satire, extremely dense in visual detail and is way closer to an existential drama than any other "horror" movie out there. Basically it appeared to be sort of a shock therapy for the Russian audiences. Most of the moviegoers expected to see another quality adaptation of an old Japanese concept, but instead were bombarded with a chain of disturbing and highly involving events that made the viewing experience very personal, intimate, and, it appears, in many cases quite unpleasant. As for me, I had no problems with this film whatsoever, probably because I was already familiar with Ruminov's style of movie-making and actually expected much more than a typical ghost movie.

paulmoskow First full screen movie from Ruminov is much more attractive than his previous short experiences. In Dead Daughters you see an experiment with j-horror form: not mysterious, not very scary, but full of daily life, terrific music, sympathetic heroes and beautiful views. It's more intellectual, than scarier. And this movie is the best experiment I've ever seen in modern Russia. I've seen it after new work of Dmitry Meschiev called «Seven cabins»: pretensions trash inspirited by Tarantino. No idea, no live characters, really nothing to say about. And this is why do I love Dead Daughters. It's like fresh air for me to know, that someone in Russia wants to bring his own soul and heart into the multiplexes. Not only special effects and pop-actors playing. This movie takes you to the simple life of young people in big city. The atmosphere is very cold, because it's late fall and the death is out there. And heroes have to be good if they want to stay alive. But what does it mean, to be good? Drive careful, say truth to you customers or not to blame new relies of rock-group? Who knows what's to be good in the world without rules.