shoy_Miss_Murder The English language does not contain enough words to describe what a dreadful piece of garbage this film was. It was badly directed, produced, shot, acted... huh, one guy did it all (except act). What Richard Boddington did was take roughly 25 minutes of footage, chopped it up, put it back together in random sequences, and managed to steal 80 minutes of life I will never get back. And the four people who mainly made up this dreadful film need to go back to whatever acting school they graduated from and demand a full refund. My jaw just about dislocated itself from yawning, trying to just get through to the awful ending - which made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Pretty impressive though, that a film can make me wish for a nauseating, hand held found footage movie to watch instead. Bravo, Mr. Boddington.

Stradale I realise that all involved in the film industry have to start somewhere but that doesn't excuse really low quality films clogging the non-pay-for-view channels.It was fairly easy for the plot of this particular pile of doo-doo to look unusual and creative in summary. In practice it's amateurish, incoherent and very, very cheap. I'd like to be more critical of the plot but in all honesty I really don't have a clue what's going on. The gap between scripted lines is audible and the actors (who look like student buddies) express emotion in such a hammy telegraphed fashion you feel like applauding.If you are reading this then you are a fellow film buff and please believe me when I say I'm not a particularly demanding viewer. I always 'IMDB' my films and 5 minutes into this particular mound I was alarmed at the 'Indy Praise'. This is not, by any stretch of credulity, a 5+ star production.If your broadcaster schedules this film it's worth a complaint.

ScienceGuy2010 Over all I thought this was a solid and smart film. I think however it could have been a lot better with a bigger budget because the ideas and concept where all sound. I give it credit for not looking like a home video the way so many indie films do these days. As a viewer you will either enjoy the non-linear story editing technique or you will hate it. I personally thought it was very clever the way the actors told their own narrative, and small bits of the back story where revealed as the film progressed. Lastly on the positive side, the final twist is one of the best twists I've seen in any movie. You can watch this film a hundred times and never figure out the final reveal on your own, I liked that. Oh and the Raquel Lake character is smoking HOT!!On the down side....a few of the characters where laughably bad, namely the executioner guy, he should of landed on the cutting room floor.

childs_roger I caught this movie on the big screen in Toronto. I have to say that this was a very original movie, I've never seen a movie quite like this one before. So I give the filmmaker credit for creating some thing very unique.I think people will be tempted to rip on Dark Reprieve because of the unusual techniques that are employed here, but the production values are so good for a low budget movie it basically negates much of the negative criticism that will be thrown at this film.There is so much bloody awful low budget horror crap out there, and this movie isn't in that category at all. It is very well made.I had several theories running as I watched this, none of them close to the ending, so "they" got me. The final shot is really great, not the kind of shot you see in a low budget film.Some of the shots are very creative and an excellent example of technique over Hollywood mega fluff. There is one shot where Kate reaches for the medicine cabinet and the camera is shooting straight up from the ground, truly original.On the downside the scene where they talk about God abandoning them or some thing just killed me, why was it there? A few times the budget shows through like when they go into the kitchen. The actors at times lapse into a "lame" mode. But over all the actors came through on this, considering the tiny cast.I predict this movie will gain a following on DVD and possibly be some what of a cult hit among people that like this sort of movie.