SoftInloveRox
Horrible, fascist and poorly acted
Tacticalin
An absolute waste of money
Celia
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Lunaroseice
The idea was an good one. The execution was horrible. The women were totally unbelievable. The blonds equated teaching ESL as saving the world. This might have worked if they were playing ditsy blonds but they seemed to be playing slutty blonds. And it wasn't even the clothing giving this impression. It was the attitude and body language. The dialogue was poorly written and the acting was terrible. The brunette, the 'smart' one, seemed to be the ditsy one. Their interactions with the locals were painful to watch because they were so patronizing. Then they hit the bars and the acting and dialogue get even worse. I actually stopped watching before the movie got gory. It was just so bad that I couldn't continue watching.
Seth_Rogue_One
Now this movie although a 'scary movie' is not very scary at all (at least for me, I've seen over 700 horror movies so I suppose I don't scare easily anymore but I don't think anyone is really gonna clench to their seats with this one).But it still kept my attention somewhat throughout the running-time which is a bit of an accomplishment at least, granted the pretty faces helped a lot with that and it's also visually fairly competently done... The scenery is nice and scenes of gore and blood are good fun, even though the jump-scares are less successful.The acting is... so so at best but yeah seen a lot worse when it comes to that as well.The music is a little overbearing at times, over-dramatic and loud.The script is, again I've seen movies with worse lol, but yeah nothing to spend your last money on and probably a movie that only holds up for a one time watch.And yeah I wouldn't call it "good" but it kept my attention somewhat so it's not all bad either, in the end I can only give it about 4 or possibly 4.5/10 though.
nmn34
There is a long scene in Thai without subtitles. Most of the scares are ripped almost entirely from the trailers of better horror movies. They failed to edit out the three seconds in which they accidentally played the wrong audio track. The fake blood runs off skin like water off a peach. This is pretty much the extent of special effects in this movie. The characters are obnoxious stereotypes of the American tourist. The twist is so poorly concealed, Stevie Wonder saw it coming and decided to read a book instead. The story has all the twists and turns as a taco bell burrito to your toilet. The characters are so poorly written that any enjoyment anyone can get is turning the movie off, a pleasure that for some reason I denied myself.This movie isn't good enough for Asylum.
Leofwine_draca
PERNICIOUS is a US/Thai horror film with a ridiculous storyline and even more ridiculous execution. It feels a little like the equally sleazy and explicit SICK NURSES, another Thai horror flick that emphasised outlandish gore over the niceties of plot and originality.This film's narrative concerns a trio of American bimbos who travel to rural Thailand to start teaching careers (when you see the characters of these women, you'll know how ridiculous and unbelievable that is). Before long they uncover a spooky golden statue in their rented home, are menaced by grisly dreams, and haunted by the spirit of a ghostly little girl.About the only thing this film has going for it is a fairly novel basis for the spooky goings-on: the use of child corpses in Thai black magic, something that fills real-life newspapers every now and then. It's a chilling premise, but this film soon turns into a silly rip-off of THE GRUDGE, except with really awful CGI effects instead of anything halfway decent. Bizarrely, there are also some extremely unpleasant gore sequences thrown into the mix, including one 'torture porn' dream sequence which is among the most explicit I've ever seen. It smacks of desperation in a film that otherwise struggles with poor acting, scripting, and a totally unmemorable playout.
