Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Bereamic Awesome Movie

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

edwardcaffronklein I don't get the love. Argento is an horrible writer. Characters disappear, reappear. Things happen that make no sense. Pointless, boring, drivel.

dungeonbrownies For fans of The Witch, this will be another fantastic piece. While there are slight issues with continuity and motivation of some parts of the plot, this film offers mystery, action gore (even if a bit outdated), and wonderful composition, all while developing a narrative that pulls you in and invests in the well earned climax.The artistry is absolutely the best when it comes to the beauty of the shots and the musical score which lends heavily to the mood.The subplots seem to be disjointed and I can't honestly say they all finally join in a way that'll satisfy everyone, but they definitely add up in an overall world building/background developing kind of way, especially with some of the more subversive undertones for those who appreciate the slightly deeper meaning to some of the parts.A few of the characters are one note, and you kind of wonder if you'd be better than them in the same situation, but it doesn't hamper the film and they work together relatively well.Bottom line? Not a scary film, but somewhat creepy and blossoming with macabre beauty.

Bezenby This late-era Italian horror shows it's bigger budget by giving us a lengthy flashback involving a bunch of knights tracking down devil worshippers, wiping them out, burying them in a pit and then building a church on top of the corpses. They even kill a duck and chuck that in too, probably because they caught it listening to Slayer or something. And thus begins Michelle Soavi's The Church, starring that guy from the Phantom Menace, John "Giovanni" Morghen "Radice", and (sigh) Asia bloody Argento.In the present, the Church still stands, and some librarian guy who looks like David Cronenberg turns up there to begin his new job. He meets a restoration chick (and they hit it off), the wizened old priest guarding the secret in the basement (they hit it off too, or at least in the version in my brain), and (sigh) teenage weirdo Asia Argento, who in this stage of her career is already exhibiting the acting range of a sack of potatoes dunked in a bath full of mango jelly. She's the daughter of the caretaker, if you need to know why she's here at all. Also, Phantom Menace guy and John Morghen are also priests here. Judas Priests, breaking the law! Well, not really.Once some builders accidentally punch a hole through to the pit where those devil worshippers were buried, things start getting weird. People start hearing ghost horses. The librarian guy starts acting all possessed and in turn causes the caretaker to go insane and impale himself on a pneumatic drill. After about an hour of this Soavi introduces about a million new characters and then traps everyone in the church, which I thought would build up to a Demons style massacre, but I was wrong.What you get instead is various characters meeting their demise in certain surreal ways. A bride to be sees herself as an old woman and tears her face to bits. Two photographers try and find a way out by spelunking (just like Alien 2!) only to end up meeting a subway train face on. The restoration lady finds herself up for a sacrifice and Phantom Menace guy is left to try and reverse all the demonic action. Also, there's a great scene of bodies rising from the ground all twisted together to resemble a huge demon head.But I've kind of got a problem with this film, and I don't know what it is. I think it may be because there's no huge pay off at the end, perhaps because there's so many characters to keep track of, or it might be because Soavi is a very talented and competent director and therefore there's a distinct lack of cheese and randomness that say, Bruno Mattei or even Fulci would have in their films, but I found the Church to be a bit unsatisfying. In fact, I think the problem might be that Soavi was aiming too high and kind of stopped short from getting there, when I compare it to the last two Italian films I watched (Deodato's haunted phone film Dial Help and Fulci's slasher/mong movie Touch of Death – now there's aiming low).You might like it though. Visually, it's a blast. It's all personal opinion, innit? I liked Dellamorte Dellamore and even Stagefright, so I'm not sure what I'm missing here.

Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki My review of this eerie and atmospheric Gothic horror is based on the 110-minutes long version. Sort of follow-up to Demoni and Demoni 2, far surpasses those two films, with its hybrid of the earlier films and vague Night Of The Living Dead themes.Attempted restoration of an old Hungarian church (played by the Cathedral of St. Matthias, in Budapest, Hungary) accidentally sets free ancient demonic forces held captive, trapped, in its walls for centuries. Once they are freed, several groups of people become trapped in cathedral and must try to escape.The gore here is more subdued than earlier, which probably disappointed some fans, but I think works to the film's benefit, putting more emphasis on suspense and atmospherics.Beautiful photography in a real centuries old Gothic cathedral, incredible set designs and lighting, and music score combined with religious subtexts can help the viewers overlook its overlong running time and nonsensical ending.