Eerie (2018) User Reviews

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[pausebreak · 5/10 · 28 July 2019]

The good: Effective lead actress. Watchable 3rd act.

The bad: The 3rd act paid for all the sins of the 1st and 2nd, and that's the most one can say. Movie's a snooze fest, which isn't necessarily bad because slow burn horrors are usually the better ones; but a snooze fest of cliches? You'd lose count of all the movies this one is trying so hard to be. Quite a handful of nightmare scenes, Freddy Krueger would be offended. Japanese horror? We've got you covered. James Wan? Sure thing. A very important school staff meeting to discuss a student's death? Sure, do it in a chapel lit only with candles; because, you know, a school office of some sort is just too unhorror-ish. What else can we put in it? Oh, yeah, make it 1995. There...Eerie. ;)

Prepare a drinking game for this movie

[greatbigdumb · 4/10 · 5 August 2019]

Because it's filled with every horror cliché there is. The first scare is even the good old mirror trick, and it's poorly done.

There are some promising scenes where the main protagonist talks to the ghosts, but they all end up as jumpscares. Be prepared that this movie is filled with these nonsensical jumpscares. They are everywhere, it's as if every ghost wants to jumpscare the main protagonist into understanding what's going on, all the time.

Was there hype for this movie? I dont get it.

Repetitive and pretty lame

[borgolarici · 4/10 · 28 April 2020]

This movie has a huge problem: it's extremely repetitive. There are many scenes almost identical to each other, the central part of the movie is basically a never ending loop of predictable jump scares. The plot itself is very basic and the pacing is terrible.

Overrated and Boring Movie

[mailagonzales · 3/10 · 11 May 2019]

The movie was extremely disappointing. I had high hopes because of the reviews on social media which turn out to be faked or paid reviews. Bea Alonzo and Charo Santos did their best in delivering their lines. However, the storyline is boring and predictable and even the evil ghost Erika is not scary at all. It looks like a film made to scare kids on the cinema. I have wasted my time and money on this overly hyped movie.

HAS THE POTENTIAL

[Honest_Reviewer32 · 13 August 2019]

This film had some really spine-tingling scenes and jump-scare techniques wisely used that made this a good horror film. I love how it was very original in using a traditional Filipino Catholic School horror story and turned it into a masterpiece.

So boring

[Zorya_Beryl · 1/10 · 5 August 2019]

This movie is overrated, unoriginal and really boring. You need to fast-forward through this borefest, no point in watching it. 1/10

Cliches everywhere

[heterotopic · 3/10 · 4 August 2019]

This movie thought it was redefining a whole genre of typical horror movies involving your Catholuc school, dorms, and our favorite comfort rooms, but it just smacked right into the cliches. Boring, predictable, eerie (where did the title come from? The supposedly suspenseful music that was also cliche?) music that should make you scared, the thunderstorm, the close-ups of saints' statues, the quick shots of ugly monster-like faces. All tricks to make you jump, because actually there's no story behind this. Oh, and adding the journalist? Come on.

Sister Act

[Screen_O_Genic · 7/10 · 30 March 2019]

Odd cliche-ridden horror flick on a strange Guidance Counsellor who dabbles in the supernatural to help teen girls who are dying one by one in a convent. Starts out slow but picks up in the end. A fine representation of the genre from Southeast Asia.

Uberly Lame

[gervacioasus · 2/10 · 26 July 2019]

So many comfort room scenes, crying girls and bunch of redundancy. Eerie looks like Blanka from street fighter.

Very decent scary movie

[lzapatagt · 7/10 · 17 August 2019]

It is not a complex or very elaborated movie, it is simple, classic and conventional, but, it has good shots, nice cinematography, interesting plot and a good ending.

Typical pinoy mayhem

[mostjaypee · 1/10 · 28 July 2019]

We are doomed! The philippines is doomed! From politicians to its people and its movie makers, we are doomed. A premiere catholic school in the philippines with only 15 students? non linear storytelling that doesn't make any sense at all. The director tries so hard to be Nolan but ends up being shyamalan. Philippines is destined to be doomed!

I don't understand the hate

[pauladriano-23221 · 8/10 · 13 October 2019]

It was a pretty solid film. Don't watch this film expecting scary looking monsters or gore and violence. It's full of clichés, yes, but they're all effective. The best aspect of this film is the atmosphere. I can understand why people thought it was boring but for me it was extremely tense. Overall, the film's not the best but it's definitely not as bad as what the other reviews are trying to say it is.

Atmosphere

[elehiguera · 7/10 · 30 July 2019]

Almost since The Conjouring I havent felt that any movie building a nice horror atmosphere, instead of relying in easy jumps and scary sounds effects.

The aesthetic works perfectly, and brings you inside the story from the very beggining.

Screenplay still bases its developing in a few cliches of genre, and might be weak at certain points but SPOILER ALERT*F few movies are able to show you the ghost from the very beggining and still succed in scaring you.

Definetely worth watching, definetely worth following what the director cooks next

Should have slept

[nocescamille · 3/10 · 17 August 2019]

It was in my watchlist and now I got the time to watch it, i felt like i've wasted it. An hour and so of disappointment. I heard about a lot of good reviews in social media and said to myself, why not. Should've checked IMDB first. -_-

A Breakthrough in Philippine Cinema

[plsletitrain · 1 August 2019]

Notice I used breakthrough in Philippine Cinema. The formula used by Mikhail Red (who is very young and promising at 28/29 btw), is something we've seen before in some other movies. But he delivered.

The first scenes were a huge turn-off. Because of course, one girl has to go to the comfort room ALONE. Then for some reason (probably had a black out OF ALL DAYS), its dark. Because it has to. And the windows HAVE to be opened so the curtains will fly and make room for a windy atmosphere. Uh-huh. Why oh why can't horror take place in a well-illuminated place???? With a lot of people. At daytime. Haha! At some point, dark atmosphere works against the essence of the film because I can't see the ghost anymore hehe.

Another huge turn off. The overused scene of one picking up a pen that has fallen on the floor then seeing feet on the other side of the table.

A lot of decent jumpscares here. Decent sound effects too. Again, I applaud Mikhail for setting the bar high.

We've seen this all before. The story. The style used by the director. BUT what I find in this movie being a breakthrough is it does create an eerie atmosphere, showing that Philippine horror has evolved. Of course, gone were the days of long-haired pale-skinned ghosts crawling out of the TV. Its time to open the floodgates for themes that may well come under sacrilege, in a country of Catholics. Though, to be fair, there's no sacrilege here as the only religious element involved is the fact that the school is ran by nuns and one of the main (mysterious) characters is a nun. One thing why this movie also did well in the box office and in the critics is for the longest time since Seklusyon (I think), a horror film, that could actually be called a decent horror film, was offered to the masses. Because you know what sells so much like hotcakes here? Infidelity stories! Yeah man, who wants to solve the mystery of the crying lady in the CR anyway when its so much fun seeing the wife pull the mistress by the hair??

Pat (Bea Alonzo) is a guidance counselor in Sta. Lucia Academy, an all-girls school ran by nuns. The atmosphere becomes weird when a student, Erika, commits suicide. Pat encounters visions of Erika and talks to her. Soon, another girl gets killed. Or was she? Pat tries to solve the mystery behind the killings in the school (and the role that the school's head, Sister Alice (Charo Santos has to play), including that of another girl who tries to commit suicide. Everything is not new to the eyes. The ending part was well-made, no mind-bending twists here. The movie was consistent from start to finish.

Now what is truly remarkable about this is the promise of potential from the director, Mikhail Red. Note that he is only 28 or 29...And seeing Eerie, I would've thought this was made by an old-timer. The young man knows what he's doing.

100% TRASH

[saltarismenos · 1/10 · 22 August 2019]

I wanted to smash my head upon the monitor. . . . . . .

Not worth thew Viewing

[malcolm-cooke · 1/10 · 29 August 2019]

OK so I read a few reviews on this movie about people unable to sleep and can watch it with he light's off and I said sounds good let give it a try. In one word terrible, This series relies on music to make you jump and quick shots of something running. The story is poor the scare factor even more so. I would not bother watching this.

Too much unnecessary parts to delay or lengthen film

[janalbrincerveza · 3/10 · 21 April 2020]

Why the hell a Guidance Councillor stay at the school till pass midnight.

Not your usual Pinoy horror

[jeshelle · 7/10 · 26 July 2019]

Different and fresh. This movie is not like your typical Pinoy horror. I rarely watch Filipino films because of the usual tropes and clichés. But this one definitely changed my mind. Mikhail Red's vision is a little bit sacriligious but not far from the truth. It doesn't rely too much on the jumpscares but will instead give you an "eerie" feeling. Great storytelling and cinematography. The musical score needs to be mentioned too. They definitely gave justice to the title!

Visually it's very pleasing

[ansirahka · 3/10 · 12 October 2019]

And the title "eerie" is on point with the tone set throughout the movie, but that's pretty much it of what's good. The jump-scares are just dumb, the story is boring and uninteresting, nothing about them are worthy enough to spent your hours on.

The beginning was lit however - that's about it

[manilene · 6/10 · 16 August 2019]

My boyfriend fell asleep watching this movie. Though the story is just average - acting was really above the average. Eerie yet I was expecting an unpredictable story. But indeed, one of the scariest horror movie of the Filipino movie industry!

Eerie restroom

[akg1249 · 4/10 · 24 August 2019]

A rather poorly written film with neither a proper story nor a ponderable theme. Film is peppered with a number of filler scenes designed solely to jump-scare viewers. 15-20 min of film's length could be shortened if these meaningless scenes are removed. Decision-making of characters is led, not by any thought process, but director's/writer's immature ambition to maximize opportunities to startle viewers. Cinematography and background score, however, made a good impression on me. The film owes much to these two departments in creating its suspenseful environment which is quite decent. I also can't fathom film's fascination with restrooms. All the critical events in the story take place in a students' restroom. Crimes are committed in the restroom. Students bully each other in the restroom. Someone commits suicide in the same restroom. Someone wanting to hide goes into that same restroom. Unimaginative and childish. Finally, film's end makes no sense at all and is as meaningless as the rest of it. Fitting.

AVOID.

(Watched on Netflix in HD/5.1 surround sound)

Good cinematography in this chiller

[el7 · 8/10 · 14 August 2019]

Eerie is the latest in what seems to be a growing trend on how to market a streaming horror movie: quick, somebody get on twitter and claim you couldn't go to sleep after watching the movie! I wouldn't go so far as to say it's on par with the scariest movies I've ever seen, but it is highly watchable. It's a ghost story that uses a fairly common combination of urban legends: the story about the haunted bathroom combined with the story about the room in a girl's dormitory where a student hung herself. The title is a play on the main ghost's name, which I don't think is really a spoiler since you find that out in the opening third of the film. The tropes are mostly things you've seen before, with all the candles and the lightning and thunder, the urban legends previously mentioned, and religious iconography. What's most unusual for this type of story is how well shot this thing is. The director makes great use of de-saturated colors, mirrored surfaces, eye imagery and light and shadow. It's just beautiful to behold and amps up the tension. Sound design is also good, especially in use of news programs playing in the background and the tape recorder which the main character uses. This brings me to another unusual element in this picture which is a legitimate spoiler: the main character is a school counselor who, we discover early on, has taken it upon herself to try to counsel the ghost. I don't think I have ever seen this approach before on how to motivate a living character to get involved with a ghost story, and I like the way this setup was developed. It turns out she has a personal reason for wanting to help, and it's a believable reason too. The plot involves a fake-out within a fake-out within a fake-out, but it's paced well enough to make the viewer feel rewarded rather than annoyed, even with the bittersweet ending.

Cliche driven movie with very easily guessed plot twists

[dreid234 · 6/10 · 1 May 2019]

Let me first start off by saying the movie was filmed and directed very well. All of the actors did a fine job and the effects were fine. Now the bad, the writing was just not up to snuff and the movie suffered for it. The 3 main plot twists you could see a mile away and the ending was not merely hinted at but pretty much spoiled halfway through the movie. No spoilers so just trust me you wont be shocked or surprised. The scares were very limited as well and depended almost entirely on the dark setting of the school for chills. If not for the fine performances by just about the entire case, save for the late addition of the detective who looked like he should be in a boy band, the movie would not be worth even a rental. Can not recommend a movie ticket but might be worth a stream on a cold dark night.

ZzzZzz

[freestyle-28825 · 1/10 · 17 August 2019]

Am I missing something? I got bored and after30 mins, I decided to read the reviews ( which I normally I don't do it since I don't like to spoil my interest ). The reviews was positive . So I thought I should watch it a bit more. Wrong. I should have just stop. It's not just boring. But very boring. Torture.