Brutal Colors (2015) User Reviews

Brutal Viewing

[shawnblackman · 4/10 · 28 September 2016]

A low budget horror where a woman is put up in an estate by her manager in a secluded area to get her inspired to paint again after suffering a nervous breakdown. Once there she starts seeing things and of course what's real and what isn't takes a toll on her mental health. Can she produce any paintings? A really bad film that just doesn't have any substance at all. It's like having a dinner with just eating dinner rolls and nothing else. The acting was tripe. The housekeeper does an awful Bela Lugosi voice. I think all of the budget was used in the rental of the mansion leaving the director screwed for anything else. Not much violence save for a paint brush getting stabbed into someone.

As the plot unfolds it gets more ridiculous. I was going to give it a 1.5/5 but the very ending made me laugh out loud. I even had to watch the ending again. Other than that it was crap. I hope I didn't paint too awful of a picture.

The usual 'losing her mind' female protagonist indie horror

[Leofwine_draca · 3/10 · 26 April 2017]

BRUTAL COLORS follows that cheap standby of the indie horror genre - the story of a woman losing her mind. The protagonist in this one has suffered a nervous breakdown and is attempting to regain her sanity through the restorative art of painting, but essentially it's a film that follows a single woman around her house. The lead is attractive in person but the acting style is quite indifferent, particularly from the supporting cast who regularly show up for dialogue scenes to pad out the running time. There's some good minor makeup at the climax but on the whole, while this is not the worst it's really not great.

DESTINED TO BE INSPIRED

[nogodnomasters · 1/10 · 26 April 2018]

Brie (Britt Bowman) is an artist with daddy issues which we find out about at 53 minutes. She is on meds and travels with her boyfriend Brian (Kevin Wright) to a cottage or a mansion so she can relax and paint. Here they meet Videl (Pooya Mohseni) a woman with a bad Eastern European accent who address people by French titles. Brie "creates" paintings that look like they could be properly hung on a refrigerator in a home with a demented child. The whole time there Brie has illusions so as the audience never knew what was real and what wasn't and since the story and acting wasn't that great, how could we even care? The film ending was idiotic.

This is a low budget film that used cheap voice enhancers. Michael Conroy who wrote and directed this feature also did "Gabrielle" with Michael Madsen, a film with a similar feel- except it is a writer who goes to a cabin to create instead of a painter. Conroy needs to stop going to remote cabins to be inspired for scripts because they all come out basically the same.

I thought Britt was laughable in her role, as was Videl and Walter.

Guide: F-bomb. sex. No nudity.