This is about a group of girls trapped in a house, after a catastrophic event, slowly going mad as food and water runs out. You immediately think Lord of the Flies but nothing happens. The characters are just unlikeable. You end up not caring at all about them. It's supposed to be arty but just ends up like a really bad school play.
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The only thing uncomfortable is the fact it lasts more than 5 minutes.
SJLiam28 August 2019
I'm a fan of all sorts of film and I especially love those little "undiscovered" films that stand out. The problem is, when you seek out films of that nature, you run into far more like this. It wants to be deep. It tries real damned hard to be Art. But to this viewer, it was neither. I'd use the word Tedious.
Aside from the, and I use this term as lightly as humanly possible, music (which was little more than repeated noises and Girl Moans..), the thing that bothered me the most was the camera filter. At several points in the film it looks like pantyhose with a hole cut in them are stretched over the lens, the edges of the screen are dark and the center almost looks like you are watching the film by flashlight. It's not artsy or claustrophobic, it's sophomoric lighting and cinematography. Actually, if this was a student film... no.. wait. Nevermind, it would still be boring.
The actresses are all capable of handling better material. If I were them, I'd fire my agent. As a moviegoer, you'd do better watching pretty much anything else up to and including paint drying.
Please don't let this writer or director free again.
michegg27 August 2019
I spend lots of time watching all sorts of films from low budget art to sci-fi blockbusters and i can honestly say this is the worst thing my eyes have ever seen i can understand the attempt at showing human nature in its true form but this is pure drivel and unbelievable.
COME ON MICHAEL
thisonetime-593021 September 2019
Those windows open inward ladies!!!! Just pull them open and crawl out!!! Unless the moral of the story is that teenage girls are all mindless idiots, this was really disappointing. You're trapped in a house for days without food and you don't even try to break a window... Don't waste our time with this garbage.
Seriously, you can see the hinges on the windows that suggests they would just swing open. Massive oversight
Seriously, you can see the hinges on the windows that suggests they would just swing open. Massive oversight
An unfortunate realistic discomfort
Elijah_T29 April 2019
Somewhere between four and six people left the room by time we made it to the second half.
This is a rather disturbing film that gets into the ugliness of humanity. When the lights go out and food runs short, our suppressed inner selves start to come out. With an eerie score (that's too loud at times), a few mysteries to keep you wondering, and a cast of characters who are unlikable in their own way, Ladyworld will make you uncomfortable through the very end.
This is a rather disturbing film that gets into the ugliness of humanity. When the lights go out and food runs short, our suppressed inner selves start to come out. With an eerie score (that's too loud at times), a few mysteries to keep you wondering, and a cast of characters who are unlikable in their own way, Ladyworld will make you uncomfortable through the very end.
Just a Waste of Time
fathermaxie28 August 2019
I created an IMDB account just to review this movie:
This movie is a total waste of your time. Everything feels cheap about it, its annoying, and it does not have any sense of story. And it doesn't make sense. Please just watch something else, if you are intrigued by my review, just skip through the movie and you will understand what I mean.
Hate to say it, garbage.
This movie is a total waste of your time. Everything feels cheap about it, its annoying, and it does not have any sense of story. And it doesn't make sense. Please just watch something else, if you are intrigued by my review, just skip through the movie and you will understand what I mean.
Hate to say it, garbage.
Pretty missunderstood but still not great
midwesternhooligans25 September 2019
This film is getting a lot of unnecessary politically charged criticism that has really nothing to do with what makes this film "broken" for a lack of a better word. The acting is so-so. I at least believe them often enough that I forgive a bad reading here or there. There are plenty of loose metaphors scattered about and really this is the main issue. This film wanders in a setting that's to small to really get going.
And there is the major "elephant in the room"... regrading the windows.... ugh. I get it "wUt iF wE GEt cOMfoRtableeeeeee."
If you watch a lot of movies already give this a shot maybe you'll get something out of it. If you're a more casual viewer skip it
Its 'Lord of the flies' meets 'The Hole'
And there is the major "elephant in the room"... regrading the windows.... ugh. I get it "wUt iF wE GEt cOMfoRtableeeeeee."
If you watch a lot of movies already give this a shot maybe you'll get something out of it. If you're a more casual viewer skip it
Its 'Lord of the flies' meets 'The Hole'
Wtf did I just watched ???
borgof-676382 January 2020
Greatly misunderstood
RickestRick15 November 2022
I cannot understand why this movie has such a poor rating. It's definitely for the art house crowd, there's no denying that. However, when taking on a whole, the movie has much more than it seems to show on the surface. The other reviewers comparing it to Lord of the Flies are correct, with a similar vibe, just in a "disaster strikes at a birthday slumber party" way. I'm not saying this movie is great, because it's not. What it is, is an interesting representation of what happens to people left to their own devices in a crisis situation. Watch it for the acting, which is very good, and don't read too much into it, and you might actually enjoy this movie.
great cast, great acting, but what was this movie?
tdh_fbi28 September 2020
What drew me to this movie, first and foremost, was the cast. I've been a huge fan of actress Annalise Basso, who played Piper, for several years now. I'm also a fan of Ariela Barber, who played Olivia, who I had seen in a movie that she had done when she was much younger. It was nice to see her in something as a young adult with more mature material to work with. As much as I liked the premise of a close-quarters character study set in a very limited setting, how the movie actually played out (at least to me) was equal parts underwhelming and confusing. Scenes of tension and/or peril would start only to cut to more slow and mundane scenes out of the blue, sometimes right in the middle of the previous scene. It probably would've also been better of they had fleshed out the start and the aftermath of the earthquake a little better. One positive that I will give to this movie is that it looked to me like a mixture of The Shining and Suspiria, what with its deliberately haunting music and frazzled tempo.
Absolute garbage
vds_bram5 February 2022
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