Sinful (2006)

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Angry, unhinged, and unhappily married young Lilith (ably played with fierce and frightening intensity by Misty Mundae) desperately wants to have a baby. After her feckless husband Jim (a solid performance by Ronnie Kerr) fails to impregnate her, Lilth decides to steal the baby of her sweet and single pregnant neighbor Aisha (a fine and appealing portrayal by Erika Smith) by befriending her and waiting for the right time to take action. Writer/director Tony Marsiglia relates the morbidly absorbing story at a gradual pace, presents several genuinely icky and disturbing gory visuals, and does a bang-up job of creating and sustaining a creepy, unsettling, and uncomfortable atmosphere that becomes more increasingly uneasy and upsetting as the narrative unfolds towards a genuinely shocking downbeat ending. Mundae excels as the deeply troubled and deranged main character; her steady descent into madness and despair is sad, startling, and downright painful to behold. Moreover, the strong chemistry between Mundae and Smith keeps the picture humming throughout; they receive sturdy support from Kerr, Nikos Psarras as Aisha's suave boyfriend Sam, Deena-Wolfe Guerin as Lilith's fantasy daughter Daisy, John Castine as Lilith's slimy abusive stepfather, and Joe Gualiuzza as a friendly gynecologist. Dang Lenawae's sharp cinematography gives the movie an impressively spooky and stylish look. Nick Vasallo's elegantly brooding score likewise does the spine-tingling trick. A really offbeat and interesting film.

Sinful is a strange film about a girl who wants a baby and can't conceive one. She blames her husband and goes to the doctor regularly to check for pregnancy. She meets her neighbor and covets their life and baby. Her mother is a real b—h and she gets no support from anyone because of her violent accusatory nature. She dreams about having a baby, and also about taking someone else's baby. There us a lot of violence in this film along with some nudity and bad language. Some disturbing scenes with what the film makers want you to believe are fetuses at various stages of growth. The film seems to be made up of disconnected scenes, but it seems to tell a story of a very troubled woman. I can't say whether the acting was good or bad because the entire film wasn't very believable.

I really have a hard time even criticizing this movie, and i wonder in aw how the heck did this thing won two awards, anyway every location in the movie is just plain strange sometimes it seems like it was filmed in some other dimension, some of the performances are just laughable, it contains a lot of unnecessary nudity sometimes used correctly and a lot of other times well really wasn't, its filled with symbolisms which only the director and screewriter could understand, the whole thing is plain wrong and and barely unwatchable, I only watched the whole thing through to see if the director redeemed himself in the end..., guess what! well he didn't. I strongly recommend you to give this movie as a gift...to someone you really hate, perhaps your boss or your mother in law.

I have to say my expectations were dashed badly with this film upon seeing it. Now while I always get a sly sense of entertainment from any Misty Mundae film, I have to admit that I held higher hopes for this movie having read reviews in magazines and seeing that it won two indy awards from a NJ film festival.I ran to the store and bought this film when it came out as it was touted as a more serious role for Mundae and while I find her films goofy and campy, I would love to see her break out into mainstream a little more. Well, while I hold hopes for this to happen someday, it won't happen with this particular director sadly.The story had potential, but there are entire sequences that beg the question: Is this *all* in her head or is she flipping between reality and fantasy? A good director could have you wondering right to the end, and with the right vehicle and inferences could even make you ponder it afterwards, but with this film, it just leaves you confused (at least that was how I felt as well as a number of friends that watched it with me).If you are into the trippy pseudo-reality genre, this might be the movie for you, for me, I just sat watching the end (won't ruin it for anyone) and scratching my head thinking: Did the end get clipped on the editing room floor? To me, this director seems to assume that everyone will just 'get it', and I can speak for the 6 people that watched it with me, we didn't get it. At all.Personally as a fan of Misty Mundae I'll keep it in my collection (I actually like the cover more than the film), but it won't be one I'll watch very often I'm sad to say.