Sick Product of a Sick System

A Masterpiece!

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I started watching this movie because the concept seemed interesting. And it actually is - three women who get kidnapped and forced into delivering their unwanted babies. Regardless if you are pro-life or pro-choice, you cannot deny that abortion is a very delicate subject and brings a lot of pain to women who go through it. The viewer is supposed to get a grasp of that dilemma and follow the characters through a journey of guilt and self-doubt. However, the plot and the acting were so poor that I felt like I was watching a children show. I honestly expected the characters to suddenly turn into puppets and start teaching me basic arithmetic or something - because the way they act and express themselves make them look exactly like that, from the exact moment Lara wakes up (Angela Little does great in comedy, but this definitely doesn't look like her thing) until the end. Instead of feeling sympathy for the characters and engaging in their feelings of doubt, I felt like I was being force-fed with pro-life propaganda and moral lessons, in the most overused and cliché way possible. If I wanted lectures, I would be reading La Fontaine fables. Movies are supposed to explore emotions and this movie does none of that. The women do not go through any journey, they just change opinions like they were struck by the holy lightning. If you want the viewers to get absorbed by the events and characters, you ought to present them some realistic acting and plot.

No, this is not a horror film. This is a film that argues women are simply baby-makers and if you have an abortion, you are going straight to hell. The man who made this film is a right wing advocate who thought he'd pull a fast one by disguising this as a horror movie to unsuspecting audiences. Fortunately, the film tanked as word got out by Stephen Colbert among others that this was vile propaganda of the cruelest kind. Only a fundamentalist would enjoy this film and that is who it should have been targeted to if the filmmaker had any integrity. Fundamentalists have actually tried to claim that this film addresses both sides of the issue, but given that the woman who has an abortion ends of being tortured in hell at the end, this argument is patently ridiculous.

This movie does pro-lifers no favors. This is horrifically shallow and badly written. I have a hard time believing the writer of this script has ever even met a female much less a pregnant female trying to make a very difficult decision. The same old,badly composed circular argument is on repeat with very empty, shallow characters. The acting is horrible, but you can only judge them on what they are given. It isn't like they had the best material to work with as the ridiculous, shallow premise has the depth and reach of a stale cracker. The best scene is when the writer of this film is eating deviled eggs. No, I'm not joking. Congratulations, you've replaced Rollergator as the worst movie I've ever seen.

at least that is an actual horror movie, no preaching and Ron Pearlman is in it. I made the mistake of watching this on Netflix without looking it up ahead of time. Biggest mistake ever. While I understand with pro-lifer's stance, but respectfully disagree, this movie is the sort of crap you know the fundie extremists are showing to their daughters to scare the crap out of them.The basic argument of abortion is murder aside, the part that real got me was the idea that Satan/Lucifer gets to run purgatory. I may be a pagan who's forgotten to bulk of her Catholic school lessons, but even I remember enough to call bull on that. Well that and the fact that an abortion is all it takes to get you locked in the middle ground.This isn't a horror movie, its poorly written propaganda. No matter where you on the issue of abortion I think we can all agree people who make movies like this shouldn't even be allowed in the debate.