WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

lucifuge2001 It is hard to know what works wrong for the movie: the story, the script, the actors, the editor, the continuity supervisor or the director. Probably the sum of all. There are a lot of fails in this movie but the worst is the story which left us with two hypothesis or there is not story from the beginning or someone kill it in the way. I hope to help and avoid others to lose time with this crap. There are a lot of better movies around for you to see. Happy trails.

BA_Harrison Three American fitties, Alex, Julia and Rachel (Ciara Hanna, Emily O'Brien and Jackie Moore), travel to Thailand in order to teach English to children (and to pick up sleazy British guys in bars for casual sex), but find themselves menaced by a Kumari, the vengeful spirit of a young girl who was sacrificed in a bloody ritual.Borrowing heavily from post-millennial horror hits The Grudge and Hostel, James Cullen Bressack's Pernicious is a wholly unoriginal torture porn/creepy girl ghost story that tests the patience from the word go. Its three central girls might look great in a pair of tiny shorts, but they're unsympathetic characters, behaving in an irresponsible manner that is bound to end badly; the torture element is suitably nasty with fine gore effects by Jerami Cruise, but it's nothing we haven't seen many, many times before; and the supernatural scenes are totally predictable and scare free, supposedly nail-biting moments including the old 'it's under the duvet' trick and the tried-and-tested 'bathroom mirror reveal' (yawn!).Just about bearable thanks to the lovely ladies (alas, no nudity!) and the gore (best bit being the shot of a pulsating brain in an old woman's crushed skull), but don't expect Pernicious to deliver anything remotely original.

roscoe666 Pernicious starts off like a rather naff TVM. Three models (supposedly teachers) rent a house in Thailand and experience some weird goings on, before shrugging them off and going shopping/clubbing. This pretty much continues for a good part of the film before they can ignore it no longer.Actually the above précis makes it sound more interesting than it really is. There is no real script or acting to speak of, just by the numbers progression. I thought for a moment the film was dubbed because some parts have badly out of synch speech. After every trauma they remain immaculately presented, with not a hair out of place, and strangely unmoved by their experience.There are a few scenes of Herschell Gordon Lewis style camp ultraviolence, which although obviously fake, is the only redeeming feature of the film. However, they jar with the pedestrian pace and made-for-TV style nature of the rest of the film.Overall, although not terrible, you need to be seriously bored to bother with this one.

Argemaluco The title made me think that Pernicious was going to be one of those "mockbusters" from the studio The Asylum, but it ended up being a legitimate North American-Thai co- production whose premise evokes the wave of Asian horror which was fashionable in the previous decade. And I have to say that it fulfilled its mission on the most basic thematic level, because it resurrects the female ghost concept adding pretty much blood and some moderately original twists. Unfortunately, the poor performances and weak direction demerit the experience, and avoided me from being very satisfied by it. Needless to say, I will refrain myself from mentioning the surprises in the screenplay of Pernicious, so I will only say I liked its mythology, the wild natural settings and the ghost's innovative mechanic to attack its victims. And, like it occasionally happens with films which are set in distant countries (at least from my point of view), the story is spiced by captivating cultural details which end up being more interesting than the story itself. But, sure, without losing the common denominator of the horror which is understood in any language and region. On the negative side, the most important problem comes from the atrocious performances from the leading trio of actresses. Ciara Hanna, Emily O'Brien and Jackie Moore are certainly attractive, but they feel absolutely forced, antipathetic and occasionally laughable in their characters. And then, we have James Cullen Bressack's uncertain direction, which shows difficulty in orchestrating fluid and coherent scenes, besides of the fact it doesn't generate too much suspense or atmosphere. Nevertheless, I have to admit that Pernicious didn't bore me, and I appreciated its disturbing displays of gore. So, I can give a slight recommendation to it, specially as a reminder of a rich culture in which magic is a normal part of daily life. But what I would be really scared of are the jungle mosquitoes. Who needs bloody rituals when there are "bloodsuckers" with the size of a hummingbird?