fedor8 Horror fans are familiar with Carpenter's split personality: the great film-maker and the lousy/lazy film-maker. So who better to do a movie about schizophrenia? The snag is that the lousy Carpenter was in charge when this was made. Perhaps electro-shocks might have helped? Great film-makers can use huge plot-twists without lying to the viewer, whereas lousy film-makers can't.Meryl Streep's daughter is pretty much the least appealing, worst actress I've seen in ages. When Carpenter screws up, he screws up real proper, and casting his movies with nepotists and bland wallpaper is an integral part of the inept Carpenter. The film looks plastic and uninspired, with a dumb plot-twist reminiscent of "Identity". All the insane-asylum cliches are covered too. Carpenter doesn't even have the decency to show us any of the women's breasts in the shower scene, that's how far gone he is in his laziness and cluelessness. (I don't include Meryl's demonic offspring, she can stay covered as far as I'm concerned.)

jonathanstewart-44281 Of course coming back from a ten-year hiatus would leave anyone a little rusty, and this movie is far from perfect, but John Carpenter truly did a masterful job of depicting Kristen's (Alice's) internal fight against Dissociative Identity Disorder. Each of the girls: Sarah, Iris, Emily, Zoey, and ultimately Kristen represent a figment of Alice's Dissociative Identity Disorder that resulted from a childhood trauma. While there are some plot holes and things that wouldn't make sense by the end, the movie chronicles Alice's mental fight to gain control of her own mind and cope with the trauma she experienced as a child. As Kristen (the newest personality)'s fight to gain control over Alice results in the killing-off of Sarah, Iris, Emily, and Zoey, the movie ends with Alice "killing" Kristen and regaining control over her mind and the ability to move back home with her parents. To me, this movie makes a creative, and albeit entertaining (it has to be, it is a movie after all), glimpse into the mind of a character whose psyche fractured in response to a childhood trauma.

hellholehorror It looked stunning and had great suspense and tension. They found new and interesting ways of creating jump scares which I loved. The characters were pretty dull and couldn't carry the moments between the fear. I really did't like the ending and generally found it unoriginal but worth watching for the scares.

elizrug I could only make it through a bit of the film. The actresses aren't real in any sense. They were not chosen for their acting abilities, that's for sure.It would be more convincing if they all didn't have the trite Hollywood look. Using actresses who look like real people instead of Barbie dolls would be a good start, especially for a movie meant to take place in the 60s. No one looked like that in the 60s, before plastic surgery.unfortunately, if my mind is focused on how UNREAL the actresses are, the movie holds no scares for me. A good story needs to have no distractions for the viewer so he/she can be completely immersed in the film.The actor who plays the doctor seems to have been cast well. He seems perfect for the role.