GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Michael Ledo Jonathan (Rob Zabrecky) is very Obsessive/ Compulsive. He works as a maintenance keeper at an amusement park in Aurora, Colorado. We get glimpses of his childhood of a domineering mother (Lisa Howard) with irrational fears. Jonathan has a half dozen dead bolts on his front door, but a back door that is easily broken into as we see two young ladies force they way into his house to snoop. Jonathan surprises them and one dies from a fall (Hannah Barron) and the other (Whitney Hayes) gets killed by a speeding car in his cul-de-sac. Jonathan who longs for a friend, keeps the dead girl on ice as he listens to his co-worker (Elisha Yaffe) tell him daily fantastic tales of sex. Jackie Hoffman is a neighbor who helps Jonathan a man who doesn't realize he has a condition.The body of the girl decays creating issues for Jonathan who dislikes germs and bugs. As the girl decays, so does Jonathan's life, in general, as it disrupts his routine of work, medication, and nightmares. The director wanted to make us feel the obsessive routine of Jonathan by re-creating the same scene multiple times with the same effect, including the two girls who are at the same place at the same time everyday saying the same thing. It was a bit over kill. Rob Zabrecky did an excellent job in his role catching the crazed Anthony Perkins/ Crispin Glover type of performance. However this was not exactly horror or thriller. It was art house repetition, expansion by parallelism. While the film was made and performed in an excellent manner, the lack of a well paced linear plot made the film low entertainment. I am sure it will have its fans.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

fairlesssam Rob Zabrecky is utterly superb in this movie and is the only reason I continued to watch it through to the end. He reminded me of Crispin Glover.While at work two women break into Jonathan's home. Jonathan is a very strange young man with what some would describe as weird habits and mental health issues stemming from childhood abuse. Jonathan comes home to find the two women in his home, one of which who falls and hits her head and tragically dies in the basement. In a panic the other girl runs and gets killed by a car. Jonathan panics and keeps the corpse of the girl in his home and begins to treat it/her as his girlfriend. Of course she begins to decay and Jonathan's world starts to unravel as he becomes distressed, stressed and at a loss as to what to do.I found this movie disturbing and gross. Having said that it is superbly acted by all involved, the story and characters are very well thought out and really fascinating. I just didn't like the subject matter.

dedeurs This film got some viewers quite upset, and I understand that. The Mommy character outdoes the stepmother psycho in Cinderella by miles! But the main subject in this film is not so much what Jonathan is doing- it's what drove him to it. However gruesome his actions may be, Jonathan lost my sympathy not for a moment. He's no Norman Bates, no Carol (from Polanski's Repulsion), no Hannibal Lecter. Persons who alienate themselves to audiences. Notice how polite and perfectly normal Jonathan is towards commuters. During his talk with them Jonathan is hiding guilt, but he has done no wrong. Not really. * Quite a few reviewers elsewhere called the movie too slow. I didn't notice. It's totally mesmerizing, and extremely well made. The cinematography is beautiful, the casting perfect, the acting great, the screenplay carefully worked out (Jonathan for instance speaks during dinners only once to his 'girlfriend', him blabbering away all the time would have spoiled the delicacy of those moments), the special effects are realistic, the metaphors subtle. And let's not forget the editing. One of the fabulous assets to this film is for certain the editing. It has an amazing ending, too, even as it left me with more than a few questions. Not because of a faulty script! Just one thing bothered me a bit; a tiny continuity error. Every morning Jonathan wakes up with a small nosebleed. And in every one of these scenes the red spot looks exactly the same. You get aware of it as his face is always in close- up at these moments. In all other regards this film shot itself straight into my top three of Dark movies. * About this OCD thing that people write about in relation to Decay: I wonder why the theme must be labeled OCD. We simply have a pain and abuse threshold, at a certain point we tend to short-circuit. Dentist's fear, a hostage situation, concentration camp and school bullying traumas. And they don't go away after a good night's sleep and a pill description and a professionally nodding therapist. Hence a guy like Jonathan. For whom I can weep. * But the point is, it seems that our intelligence level got too high for us to handle. When the "I think therefore I am" awareness crept in, we threw out Instinct, and ever since we have barely been able to control our sensibilities, and carrying around warped ideas and mental issues and disorders without a clear reason only seems to increase. Autistic/borderline/bipolar children, anyone? Mother Nature, what have you done...

nmitchem Decay is one of the most fascinating movies I've see in years. This movie is a character study. And a great one at that. The film is perfectly cast and the direction is pitch perfect. Within each scene lays deep caverns of unspoken information depicted through the art direction, cinematography, and performance.The symbolism throughout is utterly amazing!! Upon a second viewing, I have discovered a far more in-depth understanding of the intricate scenes that have been delicately crafted. These scenes paint patterns of the main characters (Jonathan) life and tell a truly tragic tail. I absolutely loved it!