Low budget, very slow, poor acting and story not tight with loose ends.
58 Reviews
Not worthy
ybahri-5404020 June 2021
the hoodman without...
ops-525354 May 2021
Manhood, and a sound boom operator suffering from a myalgic shoulder some 16 minutes into movie do put some sore scratches on the whole impression of this horror flick, based on the true urban legend of the hoodman, of the modern version of the ratcatcher of hameln who enthralled all the children to come dancing in his footsteps, a film that may awake some nightmares of people having just lost their beloved small ones, or may be just nonsense to others, allthough i belong to the second cathegory, the makers did a remarkable twist at the bitterend of the story, that may become a sequel as well.
Well will i see that, not onless they use me as a consultant to move the weed of glitchery filmaking within the horror genre. The acting has two plusses, the main female actress seems reasonable realistic in her acts, and the childactor, do seem to have no fear at all staying in front of the cameralense, in day, as well as the dark, a good rookie performance really.the rest though are at average, and the parent caracters are just terrible from a to z.
Production is fairly good, the ambient music goes quite thrillingly hand in hand, and the camerawork is duable, though at some stages ,what hides in the dark stays in the dark, e.g. Darkfilming is really a serious task to take on to make your nerves rise. Also the storyline are pretty generic and straightforward urban legend style, and the solution to everyones problems is plotted in a very dact conclusive way, just expressing,'' now its over'', me sitting there as a questionmark howcome and when did that happen.
Dont shade away from this american wysterious horror film, it has the grip on you if you want to, though the grumpy old man survived the ordeal to the glittering prize, or was it due to the caffein capsules i had for breakfast...
Well will i see that, not onless they use me as a consultant to move the weed of glitchery filmaking within the horror genre. The acting has two plusses, the main female actress seems reasonable realistic in her acts, and the childactor, do seem to have no fear at all staying in front of the cameralense, in day, as well as the dark, a good rookie performance really.the rest though are at average, and the parent caracters are just terrible from a to z.
Production is fairly good, the ambient music goes quite thrillingly hand in hand, and the camerawork is duable, though at some stages ,what hides in the dark stays in the dark, e.g. Darkfilming is really a serious task to take on to make your nerves rise. Also the storyline are pretty generic and straightforward urban legend style, and the solution to everyones problems is plotted in a very dact conclusive way, just expressing,'' now its over'', me sitting there as a questionmark howcome and when did that happen.
Dont shade away from this american wysterious horror film, it has the grip on you if you want to, though the grumpy old man survived the ordeal to the glittering prize, or was it due to the caffein capsules i had for breakfast...
Not good
garci-2396420 June 2021
waste of time
peterskaldas25 June 2021
The worst movie I have ever seen
kqatramiz-5829910 July 2021
Another one!!!
Go_For_The_Jugular17 June 2021
There's an urban legend that says:
If you stand in front of a mirror...and repeatedly chant "Hoodman, Hoodman, wasn't very good, man!"...nothing will happen, but you feel a lot better for saying it out loud! 😂
Top 3 worst films of 2021.
Top 10 worst films of my life.
Sadly, there's no vaccine to protect us from poor filmmaking.
If you stand in front of a mirror...and repeatedly chant "Hoodman, Hoodman, wasn't very good, man!"...nothing will happen, but you feel a lot better for saying it out loud! 😂
Top 3 worst films of 2021.
Top 10 worst films of my life.
Sadly, there's no vaccine to protect us from poor filmmaking.
Fakes! As bad as they come.
ferdmalenfant4 July 2021
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If you think this movie is a 10 or anything over a 3, you're not very fussy about what you watch. This is a extremely low budget, garage made, piece of trash. Bad acting, bad script, bad all around. Nothing ever happens. No gore, no suspense and makes no sense whatsoever. Her child is found dead in the car(we never see him) but no one talks about the child's body through the entire movie. She says her child's not dead, the policeman (worse actor ever) says yes your child is dead but not once does anyone say, "look at his dead body" or a funeral...nothing. You're just supposed to let that go and keep watching. Ridiculous one camera trash.
No Way this is 6.1 material
devinwatson-663831 March 2022
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I would give it a 4 maybe but wow 6.1... and some of these reviews are hilarious I must say, even another reviewer wrote they didn't know wtf movie these 10/10 reviewers saw. It had potential but we ended up just groaning a lot, and almost falling asleep five times even though it was only 8pm. Low budget or not it just didn't have enough meat on its bones.
During some of the drama I found myself unconvinced, ambivalent, and almost annoyed while predicting roughly how many minutes I thought we'd be bogged down for the scene to make its obvious points. We get it yes you want us to dislike the cop, here we go again with the pills scene and the gaslighting scenes and the extended shots of the main character walking around looking... looking... haha Looking Some More.. I mean will someone please just have that dude in the hooded robe chase her around or something instead of this paint by numbers pseudo drama.
During some of the drama I found myself unconvinced, ambivalent, and almost annoyed while predicting roughly how many minutes I thought we'd be bogged down for the scene to make its obvious points. We get it yes you want us to dislike the cop, here we go again with the pills scene and the gaslighting scenes and the extended shots of the main character walking around looking... looking... haha Looking Some More.. I mean will someone please just have that dude in the hooded robe chase her around or something instead of this paint by numbers pseudo drama.
Such a good film
AtTheMovies522 May 2021
My family and I enjoyed this film from beginning to end. We were looking for a fun movie night film and this film did not disappoint! We really liked the acting, the story and directing. Directing from the standpoint the film moved along at a good pace without becoming boring. Terrific job everyone!.
A Late-Nighter With Drama and a Hoodman
GilbertS-855 May 2021
Just what I needed last night: some creepy late-night horror-esk / mystery / drama with an all-around solid cast. A bit of a slow burner. Nicely shot. I kind of wished for more scenes with Hoodman, but I think the movie wanted to lean more on the drama side. I also dug the actor who played the detective.
Terrible acting amongst other things
ericdhall7711 July 2021
Brilliant
matthewsherlock41 August 2021
Why?
HorrorFanLewis2 April 2022
I was going to watch this movie and started off with the trailer. If you're British and of a certain age, you would have seen an image you would instantly have recognised. Why on earth would they use a picture of murdered 8 year old British school girl, Sarah Payne? Did the writers know who the girl in the picture was? Did they get permission from the family? Did they mention her in the movie? I don't understand how they were allowed to use that image or why they would use the image of a real life murder victim, a child at that. Decided not to watch the whole thing after seeing that.
It's fairly bad.
Otkon17 April 2022
Worse than the worst
liv_trinity5 July 2021
One of the worst examples of fake reviews I've ever seen on IMDB
miss_toucan23 April 2022
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Check out the other films the people who have it a 10 star review have also reviewed. They are the same 6 movies lol! And the reviewers have just cut and paste their reviews. They are just fake. There are unfortunately a lot of them, but trust me- this is crap and the positive reviews are lies! You know a movie must be bad when they need fake reviews to make it look good.
Seriously...any of you fake reviewers out there reading this should be ashamed.
IMDb is an awesome resource and you are destroying it and making it unreliable >:(
I watched this as it had a fairly good rating, but it was terrible.
The acting was bad, the story was boring. The 'hoodman' urban myth just wasn't interesting.
It was a serious struggle to even get through it.
It did not even really make sense.
Spoilers-
A woman and her baby have a car accident. She wakes up in hospital to find out that the baby is dead. She doesn't believe this, and believes that her son was taken by an urban legend called 'The Hoodman'. Other people's children have gone missing over the years too...but the police officer showed her photos of her dead son. He wasn't missing. He died!
Perhaps if the baby had gone missing and the police suspected that she had done something with him, it would have made more sense for her to pursue this 'hoodman' who actually abducted him. But that wasn't the case, so the whole storyline about a woman looking for her missing son is kind of ridiculous. There's a huge difference between a missing child and a dead one whose body has been recovered.
I thought at the end this might be explained, and it turned out she was just crazy all along or maybe she did kill the baby and made up the 'hoodman' as a way of dealing with what she had done, but that didn't happen.
Also, every movie I've seen that features an urban myth at least makes an attempt to explain the origins of that myth or more about it. This didn't even really try.
Don't bother with this one.
Seriously...any of you fake reviewers out there reading this should be ashamed.
IMDb is an awesome resource and you are destroying it and making it unreliable >:(
I watched this as it had a fairly good rating, but it was terrible.
The acting was bad, the story was boring. The 'hoodman' urban myth just wasn't interesting.
It was a serious struggle to even get through it.
It did not even really make sense.
Spoilers-
A woman and her baby have a car accident. She wakes up in hospital to find out that the baby is dead. She doesn't believe this, and believes that her son was taken by an urban legend called 'The Hoodman'. Other people's children have gone missing over the years too...but the police officer showed her photos of her dead son. He wasn't missing. He died!
Perhaps if the baby had gone missing and the police suspected that she had done something with him, it would have made more sense for her to pursue this 'hoodman' who actually abducted him. But that wasn't the case, so the whole storyline about a woman looking for her missing son is kind of ridiculous. There's a huge difference between a missing child and a dead one whose body has been recovered.
I thought at the end this might be explained, and it turned out she was just crazy all along or maybe she did kill the baby and made up the 'hoodman' as a way of dealing with what she had done, but that didn't happen.
Also, every movie I've seen that features an urban myth at least makes an attempt to explain the origins of that myth or more about it. This didn't even really try.
Don't bother with this one.
Worth It
MRP-Ent7 May 2021
The title might imply this is going to be a bloodfest or old school slasher movie, but it's a well done indie horror-thriller that has some strong dramatic scenes and some solid mystery elements. But don't be fooled by the "indie film" description - this is a very well done low budget movie and the performances are very good throughout.
Don't waste your time
critikalnetworks16 May 2022
Horrible acting and horrible plot that doesn't make any sense. So formulaic and utterly predictable.
I couldn't stand the bad acting of majority of the characters and uses really cheap jump scares in very predictable occasions.
I couldn't stand the bad acting of majority of the characters and uses really cheap jump scares in very predictable occasions.
Don't judge a "book" by its cover!
NickRizzini17 May 2021
Very nice psychological thriller, for being a indie small budget movie is nicely produced and put together. The movie poster and title might give the idea of a more simplistic or generic slasher horror, but do not get fooled, this is a good one folks!
80's horror-thriller? Kinda... but more of its own.
rankthelion15 June 2021
While the title and poster give off an 80s horror-thriller, Hoodman does very well job bringing modernism to its story with its low budget and great performances. It kept me well evoked and also gave the chance for some real scares. It just have. Problem with how it ramps up jumps scares though. Most of the time it seems that it was trying to start and then it would let the sound take over then it lost always ends up being someone she knew. Other than that I loved the characters and the woodman lore. A great Indie horror thriller flick.
Horrible in every ways
stevenluk21 April 2022
Great! Has a bit of everything
donthemovieguy10 May 2021
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