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

GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

TheLittleSongbird Saw 'Silent Retreat' being fond of horror/thriller regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre), and the cover was cool. Was less taken by the concept though, which sounded ridiculous. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to watching and reviewing.Unfortunately, do have to agree with the low rating and the poor reviews. 'Silent Retreat' is one of those films that never took off, starting off not very interestingly and never recovered and progressively got worse, particularly in the near-unwatchable later stages. Never judge a film without seeing the whole thing and wanted to not make 'Silent Retreat' an exception, so gave it a fair chance. The location is also suitably spooky. However, so much brings 'Silent Retreat' down. All the acting is either over-histrionic or disinterested, both in a few cases, and the direction is so phoned in and pedestrian, one gets the sense that the director showed no interest in the film at all. Too much of the soundtrack is intrusive and annoying, made worse by the excessive and obvious sound effects that just cheapens the mood. The film looks drab generally and like it was made in haste, the photography especially betrays that with its amateurishness.Where 'Silent Retreat' most underwhelms is the writing and story. The writing is incredibly lazy, it's awkward in dialogue, is gratuitously crude, confused because of not tying things up or going into full detail and doesn't feel complete. The story suffers from a very limp pace, apparent early on and gets slower and slower until an interminably dragged out and ridiculous second half. It further suffers from feeling too much like a short film stretched out with a lot of useless padding. The stereotypical characters are as unlikeable as they come, the inconsistent and illogical motivations bring them down further. For a film billed as a horror, there is very little interesting and nothing remotely scary which makes a waste of such a spooky-looking location. The scares and thrills are too few, barely any even, and are far too predictable, anaemic and weakly timed to make impact, with the dull pacing and obvious sound editing cheapening them significantly. 'Silent Retreat' doesn't engage let alone thrill, the more it progressed the duller, predictable and more nonsensical it became for a premise that was already ridiculous. The ending leaves very little impact, very contrived and not much of one at all.In summary, very poor on the whole. 1/10 Bethany Cox

fearlesshs Watched this movie but was never sure how they want to pursue horror... I mean seriously? Movie builds some confidence while showing plot connections with mental hospital and the business trip people in the first few minutes but then I was just eagerly waiting for a horror pop-up when in between they just wanted to make it sensually interesting! Woah? Dude falling off the stairs dies without blood or bruises? OK then they tried covering up for that by surprise human hunt for what I'm still wondering... Not even good use of camera tricks for horrifying but then confusingly clarifying the fuss made up till the end... No boy, competition for horror is far ahead than what you thinking! Stars can be for acting, least to be said

utahman1971 Did we watch the same movie? This did not have any porn elements in it. Not even close. It had some short sex scene that showed nothing and a boob flash but that is it. Who ever thinks anything close to a porn for this movie is stupid.The whole movie was dumb as they come or one of the worst and to consider it even a horror is dumb. It had lame of hardly any gore and the action was not hardly any. It dragged for a whole 60 minutes and then still was bad.The ending was not much of an ending. People that like slow horror movies would love this and if you don't then why do you like them in the first place? Acting was seriously bad as heck. The accent girl was terrible.None of the actors worked well together. Director must of thought, "What the hell?" and just did it anyways. Just a quick buck. Wrong Turn series has more porn elements than this movie.

manuelasaez This movie looks like and feels like a crappy porn movie. The acting is stilted and borderline offensive in it's inadequacy (the girl with the fake English accent is horrendous), the director did not seem to know what the hell he was doing, the script comes off as bad fan fiction, and the movie itself is predictable, clichéd and asinine. I mean, what were these people thinking? Did the actors really read this script and tell themselves, "I will be proud to add this to my resume?". If they did, it's no wonder I have never seen anyone act in anything else. Your poor judgment will be detrimental to your careers if you keep taking these skid-marked roles. Learn to say no when a script is garbage. Ask questions and offer insight as to how you can enhance the writer's vision. But, above all else, never work on another project ever again. I have seen porn films with better acting than this movie, and the FEW instances of blood and gore are so few and far between as to make this a XXX feature without any sex, class or creative vision. Just a freaking mess from beginning to end. I offer nothing but vomit for this travesty. May it be forgotten like the cesspool of talent it is.