Best movie of this year hands down!

Absolutely Fantastic

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Angry, unhinged, and unhappily married young Lilith (ably played with fierce and frightening intensity by Misty Mundae) desperately wants to have a baby. After her feckless husband Jim (a solid performance by Ronnie Kerr) fails to impregnate her, Lilth decides to steal the baby of her sweet and single pregnant neighbor Aisha (a fine and appealing portrayal by Erika Smith) by befriending her and waiting for the right time to take action. Writer/director Tony Marsiglia relates the morbidly absorbing story at a gradual pace, presents several genuinely icky and disturbing gory visuals, and does a bang-up job of creating and sustaining a creepy, unsettling, and uncomfortable atmosphere that becomes more increasingly uneasy and upsetting as the narrative unfolds towards a genuinely shocking downbeat ending. Mundae excels as the deeply troubled and deranged main character; her steady descent into madness and despair is sad, startling, and downright painful to behold. Moreover, the strong chemistry between Mundae and Smith keeps the picture humming throughout; they receive sturdy support from Kerr, Nikos Psarras as Aisha's suave boyfriend Sam, Deena-Wolfe Guerin as Lilith's fantasy daughter Daisy, John Castine as Lilith's slimy abusive stepfather, and Joe Gualiuzza as a friendly gynecologist. Dang Lenawae's sharp cinematography gives the movie an impressively spooky and stylish look. Nick Vasallo's elegantly brooding score likewise does the spine-tingling trick. A really offbeat and interesting film.

Sinful (2006) BOMB (out of 4) Extremely awful psychological thriller about a married woman (Misty Mundae) who slowly loses her mind because she isn't able to have children. She eventually meets her neighbor who is pregnant and plans on taking the unborn baby from her. There have been a few recent stories with deranged woman ripping babies out of other women and I'm sure this subject, while vile, could make for a good thriller or character study but this film certainly isn't it. This is an incredibly bad movie from start to finish but I'm not sure who would walk into this movie and expect anything else. Mundae is best known for her sexploitation roles and that's where she should have stuck because her performance her is really, really bad. Not once did I believe her as this deranged woman and now that I've seen a handful of her films it seems directors like to show she's "crazy" or "bad" by having her smoke a cigarette. I personally don't understand this childish connection but if that's the only way an actress or screenplay can show badness then you know you're in trouble. The film goes from reality to a fantasy world and it's hard to separate the two as both sequences look the exact same (overly dark). The supporting players are equally bad and there's no sense of direction anywhere. We get some rather gory moments with a fetus being ripped out and other dumb things but gorehounds won't find anything good here. The nudity is here but does nothing. The film runs 65-minutes but it's obvious the filmmakers ran out of ideas just by the extended opening and closing credits, which probably take over ten minutes. Just wait until you see the closing credits because of how slowly they move to push up the running time. I've seen thousands of movies but this is the first time I've seen this practice to push a running time.

Sinful is a strange film about a girl who wants a baby and can't conceive one. She blames her husband and goes to the doctor regularly to check for pregnancy. She meets her neighbor and covets their life and baby. Her mother is a real b—h and she gets no support from anyone because of her violent accusatory nature. She dreams about having a baby, and also about taking someone else's baby. There us a lot of violence in this film along with some nudity and bad language. Some disturbing scenes with what the film makers want you to believe are fetuses at various stages of growth. The film seems to be made up of disconnected scenes, but it seems to tell a story of a very troubled woman. I can't say whether the acting was good or bad because the entire film wasn't very believable.

The movie contains lots of violent and disgusting imagery, nudity, but did not have a plot to hold the movie together as a story. Instead, the movie tries to visualize some of the twisted thought processes that might go through a woman's head as she steals another person's baby.Nobody will enjoy this movie. It is not a story; i.e. a series of events. Whatever it was that the director was attempting to accomplish, he failed to put together a movie that was watchable or understandable.If the cover is to believed, the movie did win two awards in New Jersey. Not your typical venue for movie awards, and I disagree that it should have received any awards, but I guess that means that some people might have understood what the director wanted to say.