MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

King Kong Just so we're clear right from the start, if your idea of a good chiller is to watch a whimpering dimwit huddled in the fetal position in the back seat of a BMW for pretty much the entire film's running time, you'll be over the moon with this awful mess. Not me.So where do I even start? Ah yes, the protagonist, of course. Weak female leads have always frustrated and annoyed me, double that for horror movies and then quadruple that for that weak female lead also being a certifiable imbecile. Penny is the absolute last person you would ever want to cross in a real-world survival scenario. She blubbers, she cries, she screams, she moans, she hurts herself and all while conveniently doing absolutely nothing any rational person would do in a life-or-death situation. Example? Homicidal lunatic following you with your car tire quickly losing pressure? Curl up in a ball and cry. Stuck in a car with a corpse? Make a half dozen mediocre efforts to break the windshield before giving up, curl up in a ball and cry. Helpful stranger runs down homicidal lunatic, you notice lunatic is still alive? Alert helpful stranger? Nope. Curl up in a ball and cry. I was grinding my teeth so hard I may have to go to the dentist and make sure my fillings are still intact.To make matters even more ridiculous (yes, really), Penny decides she's going to continue downing sedatives that leave her virtually catatonic for hours, allowing the lunatic to mess with her each time she wakes from her medically induced comas, somehow surprised that it has happened again each time. I finally really just wanted to see the useless twit die and I was deprived of that joyous moment. If it had been in there, this may have received a "3 out of 10". Alas, it was not to be.The movie itself is fairly standard slasher fare. You've got all the horror-isms like the creepy woods, the dark and stormy night, kids who think they may have heard a noise but then didn't, the obligatory useless flashlight, the creepy voice that is impossibly evil (was that seriously the Predator laughing?) and obviously the sprained ankle because obviously Penny isn't already as useless as an ashtray on a motorbike without being physically impaired on top of things.This mess gets a "2 out of 10" only because Mimi Rogers pulled off her character quite well. Too bad she wasn't around long enough to finally snap and put idiot Penny out of everybody's misery.

Evonne97 WARNING, SPOILER ALERT!! Penny Dreadful really is dreadful. Basically you see Penny spend the whole movie trapped in a car endlessly cowering and crying, while some escaped lunatic tries to terrorize her from outside. The movie spends more time showing her losing her mind then it does showing anything else. After about 30 straight minutes of he panicking and whimpering, it just gets old. I found myself wishing the nut job would just finish her off already! The character was just plain annoying, the plot sucked, and the ending was lame. It took me 3 tries to finish this movie. I don't mind slow build up, but this just builds up to nothing but a waste of time.

HumanoidOfFlesh Penny,a young woman traumatized by a childhood auto accident that killed her parents,accompanies her therapist on a road trip back to the scene of the accident as part of her therapy to overcome her fear of cars.But when the two women accidentally cross paths with a dark and mysterious Hitch Hiker on a lonely stretch of mountain highway an attempt at healing suddenly takes a terrifying detour into a horrific life-and-death struggle with a ruthless,deranged killer bent on preying upon Penny's worst fears."Penny Dreadful" is an unremarkable slasher with tons of quick cuts masquerading as scares.The acting is solid and it's always nice to see Michael Berryman in a small cameo,unfortunately the killings are laughable and there is not much blood and gore.Still "Penny Dreadful" is better than Richard Brandes horrible vampire flick "Out for Blood".5 out of 10.

silentcheesedude Did I see the same movie as the others?Girl is afraid of cars because parents dies in car accident. Her and her psychiatrist go out for a drive in the mountains. Hitchhiker gets hit by them. Hitchhiker stalks them. People die. That's pretty much about it.And it started so promising! I like Mimi Rodgers. I liked the cool intro with the credits. And the set up with the "fear of cars" felt pretty real. But the movie almost immediately begins to fall apart the moment we start to see repetitive actions that may be employed to fill the time slot of an hour and a half, to the point of ad nauseum.Let me give you an example. "Bad guy" stalks "Girl" that's trapped in the car. Girl screams for a total of 3 minutes and 42 seconds "somebody help me"!! Then she see's bad guy. Cheap special effects are employed, like a heart beat and a fast zoom in and out. 10 minutes later, we STILL are in this scene, separated only by another time filler until more murders begin. The gore is somewhat muted, and some of it silly. There's a sex scene in it which felt like they just HAD to do to make it compete with the rest of the movies we've seen for the last 40 years.Movies that take place in one specific location for long periods of time can be pulled off if done correctly. Saw did it. So did Phonebooth. But slasher movies are so boring when they follow the numbers, give no accent to the characters, and give you nothing more about the story then what you see on the screen. We should have gotten rid of this, what, 17 years ago sometime back in the 90's?Oh well, at least we got to see Michael Berryman, but in a useless cameo.