Still/Born (2018)

Very well executed

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This is a well made and acted interesting story.I don't know why it has such a low rating here - it is worth watching if you fancy a bit of supernatural suspense Without giving anything away, there are a few twists and turns that lead the viewer along different paths of possibilities - which makes it interesting, because there are times when you have to think about what you are watching.All-in-all not the best movie of all time, but certainly viewable.

Mary (Christie Burke) gives birth to Adam and a stillborn child. She lives in a big new house with a husband Jack (Jesse Moss) who sometimes travels. Mary has been hearing and seeing things and Jack doubts her sanity as Mary believes a demon is after her infant. We the audience have some doubts as Mary acts Winona Ryder crazy. This is a run of the mill type horror film. Mary was convincing while support characters were not well developed. Did I miss the build up to the Halloween block party? Not overly scary...unless you just gave birth to a child and a surprise stillborn. Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

This movie is awkward for so many reasons; teh female lead was annoying and her acting ability was severely limited, the story took a long time to get going, and the reasoning behind the events were half-baked at best and sophomoric at worst, and the lack of any serious scares really makes you wonder if the people responsible were actually setting out to make a horror film, or if they were making a drama and got caught up? It was just such an uneven mess in every possible regard, and I kept asking myself, what made this movie R-rated? Was it the excessive violence, of which there was none? Was it the nudity, of which there was none? Was it the graphic depictions of blood and gore, or which there were none? The salty language, which was tame compared to most cable networks? Nope. The sole reason this movie warranted an R-rating was for a 2 second scene where the mother looks into teh crib of her dead baby and sees a bloody mass of red blood soup with a fetus crawling around. You would have to pause the scene to really make out any details, but other than that, this movie is as teenage as it comes. It was written for and by teens, it seems, as there is nothing mature or even clever about it.It could have been a Rosemary's Baby clone, and it would have fared better. Hell, if it was a Rumpelstiltskin film, it probably would have been tolerable. But there is no rhyme or reason to the events of this film other than, "Something wants my baby!". Please save your money, time and energy and skip this travesty of cinema. Don't make the same mistake I did.

Not just a song title from the Band Bodycount (though they have a different social message attached to that song of course), but also the premise for this movie. Well the starting point you could argue. You can say that this ticks all the right boxes (something the previous reviewer did, and that is not wrong in itself). You can also say that it goes by the numbers.That's not always a bad thing, if executed well. And this is decent enough with enough scares to keep you interested and make you wonder what is going on, or rather what is real and what not. So if you have love for horror movies and empathize easily this will float your boat all the way through ...