the audience applauded

A Disappointing Continuation

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Dark quirky and compelling film. Without giving too much away, a very dark and foul family secret is unearthed by a professor's twenty-something son after a brief encounter with a young woman who claims to be his cousin. Plot twists, surprises, dark humor and a great dinner scene make for a good film. Don't look into the abyss. You won't like what is looking back at you.

"Kissin' Cousins" this is not. "The Automatic Hate" takes the almost cutesy incestual premise of the 1960's Elvis musical vehicle and twists it into full force perversion. As off-kilter as it is to consider, what happens between these two long-lost relatives is, given the premise here, anyway, not as unsettling as you may well imagine.Still, this film ends with a lingering, and haunting, uncertainty. Is this taboo relationship merely an impassioned moment in time? Or is it destined to never entirely be left in the past?

I do not know what the point of this film is unless the moral is incest is taboo and for a good reason. Otherwise, maybe the lesson is incest is okay. In any event, it follows a spate of gay-themed films where the one coming out is relieved to hear from their parents (usually father) that "he is a little gay too." The idea that this kind of thing runs in the family is cute too, giving it even more legitimacy.The frustrated part is that once again, we have a young guy with supposedly everything including a Yale degree and parents with Yale degrees and uncles with Harvard degrees and ballerina girlfriends and a cool career as a chef and yet, the first chance he gets, he allows himself to be totally whipped by his slutty cousin whom he has never met in his life!!! Just like that. Of course there was no problem when mom (aunt) catches them in bed together either and her father tells him to help him butcher a hog because, if you can screw my daughter, you can help me kill a pig! Are things really that loose these days? To ask what was he was thinking is useless. Then, when he does find out the long hidden family "secret" he (and the rest of the "family") seems almost relieved. Watch The Bad Seed and you will know what I mean. And that ending - really? Will he never learn?

I tend to watch a lot of indie movies, but I almost skipped this one. The title and overview were too vague, and I figured this would end up being a typical coming-of-age, dramatic-yet-heartwarming story of families reconnecting.Oh boy, was I waaaaay off.First of all, this movie is really very well filmed. The cinematography, art direction, and pacing are spot-on and very engaging, aside from also being polished even by Hollywood standards. And the acting, oh my. Everyone is excellent, and Adelaide Clemens is... frankly, intoxicating.The subject matter comes totally out of left field. At a time when even indie filmmakers seem to be churning out the same old genre-straddling garbage, this movie is a breath of fresh air -- despite the awkward subject matter, which is presented in such a way that it never feels deliberately provocative.I tend to skip sex scenes in movies (when that's possible). They're all melodramatically the same, and they're boring to sit through. I feel compelled to mention that the one in this movie kept my eyes glued to the screen.I would've liked to see more clues as to what kind of past made Alexis the way she is, but I guess you can't have everything. Overall, superb, the best movie that nobody has seen, and the kind that'll have me thinking about it for a while. It's a shame the subject matter probably prevented it from getting any semblance of distribution.