Teringer
An Exercise In Nonsense
Kayden
This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
FountainPen
This movie seems to have been shot with the camera lens stopped down several clicks, with no studio lights, with a cloth over the lens ! It is too dark to see what's going on most of the time. Even watching on a 42" screen with all kinds of settings, I could not get a clear image. Apparently the producers and director thought darkness would compensate for the lack of a proper thought-out story and decent actors. The film was in a big bunch of DVDs I bought for a bargain price, so it cost me only a few pennies, thank goodness. It did waste my time and annoy me, but I can rise above that. NOT recommended in any way, except to persons needed a sleep-help! I cannot think of any praise for it.
Jack Longstraid
I don't write reviews often, but this movie is so bad that I wanted to warn other people.I was interested in the mickey-mouse-killer-portrait, so I paid no heed to the 4,7 rating. Besides, I'm always looking for that hidden gem horror movie, so I gave it a shot. Big mistake.Not once in the whole movie I was even close to be scared, character development is non-existent, and the use of music is one of the worst I've seen in my life, not to mention the abuse of clichés throughout the movie.If you are like me, then you will probably watch the movie anyway, and I can't really blame you. I just hope that someone will read this and spare the 1 hour 20 minutes.
campbell-sproul95
I didn't know anything about Torment going into the movie. Like with most movies this bad I found it while dumpster diving in the hopes of finding a good horror movie. Like in most cases of dumpster diving all I found was garbage. At first I had some emotional engagement with the movie, my mother died when I was a teenager, and the thought of my father remarrying always bothered me, so despite my better judgment I empathized with Liam (the young boy in the movie) dealing with that difficult situation. However, as the movie went on, I lost all engagement with the movie. The acting is mediocre at best, the story makes little to no sense at all (no explanation is given for why the psycho family is assaulting and torturing the Morgans), and the "twist" ending is boring and pointless. I'm all in favor of dumpster diving for horror movies, a lot of the better ones I've seen (with the exceptions of classics like The Omen, The Exorcist, Blair Witch Project, etc.) have come through this process. However, this time, as it happens so often, I just ended up with a big load of trash.
jamiedecourley
This movie is definitely not terrible. It's not as classy as The Strangers or as fun as some other recent home invasion flix but, I honestly thought it was good enough to watch twice. Katharine Isabelle always demands my attention and this time I think the film worked for her. At the very least the film adds positively to her standing as one of our favorite new age scream queens.. The film is shot well, the acting's not terrible, there's some genuine suspense here and a fairly scary bad guy with a little twist or two along the way. As an avid horror fan who wades through piles of crappy movie weekly looking for the hidden gems, I'd say this film will please most genre fans. I don't know just good a sequel would be though. Might have to steer clear of that one...lol.
