Armynel (2012) Reviews

• Really?!?!

  candidavenport2015-09-19

  I started watching this for free, (thank god!) on YouTube. It was slow and very disjointed. Awful, uninteresting, boring. Originally, when I looked this up, it was at a 6.1. Someone from the movie must have paid the people for those reviews. AWFUL! Acting was poor, not much of anything I can say good about this movie. Uncomfortable, pauses in the acting. Maybe it got higher ratings because of lesbian love scenes. Pretty yawning IMO. Not really my thing either. Only $250,000 to make the movie, truly is poorly made. The only thing good I can come up with is some of the scenery in the beginning was very pretty. Hopefully, more honest reviews will come in.

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• Armynel: Not so thrilling thriller

  Platypuschow2017-10-07

  This was advertised as a horror, I was lied to *Sadface* Instead I was presented with this psychological indie thriller about a woman with a shady past and her declining mental state. But there is a killer about wearing a Victorian medical mask, but is it her? Poorly acted and simply not very interesting this has been done before and considerably better. It's hard to empathise with the lead and therefore impossible to care about what happens. The film leads to a manageable twist but by this point I'd all but zoned out. Somehow, someway this mess is reported to have cost quarter of a million dollars to make. Looking at the quality of the cast, the cinematography and the soundtrack I can only assume they had really really really really good catering. The Good: Twist isn't awful The Bad: Heavily misandric Insanely dull

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• Time-Filler Thriller!

  juliegormly2015-09-27

  This low-budget American film by a first-time director has the feel and pace of a European thriller or horror story; a slow burn to a depressing end. Aside from a couple of the actors, most of the cast had a fairly short history of work before this film, and the quality of the acting varies from fairly ordinary, to understated, with a few of the characters being a bit cardboard-cutout. The storyline was nothing out of the ordinary, being a pastiche of things we've seen before. Having said that, I've seen way worse movies than this. The editing and direction were quite good, considering the budget. The Egdar Allen Poe references were interesting but not over-emphasized. The scarier aspects were not overdone or played too much for cheap frights and the creepier scenes were reminiscent of The Ring.

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• The little indie that (almost) could...

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  I love horror and thriller movies. I will watch almost anything that calls itself horror and I will stick with it until the end of the line. Sometimes I end up with two hours of my life gone that I'll never get back, and sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised. Armynel starts out fairly slowly and does its best to build suspense. The ending is quite unexpected and almost out of left field--I got a little lost with all the twists and turns an actually ha to rewatch the ending to actually "get" it. But then, I watch a lot of Japanese horror and this sort of thing is nothing new to me. The performances are less than stellar for the most part, but in a small independent film with inexperienced actors that's more or less to be expected. The same-sex relationship between the heroine an her partner is amazingly well-handled, neither in your face nor exploitative, and that's a refreshing change. I have seen complaints elsewhere about the portrayal of the gay male friend being too flamboyant or over the top, but I can state here that I have had a lot of gay friends who acted exactly like that. Not all, but it's hardly unheard of. I think it's simply that the main lesbian couple is so subtly portrayed that the outre of the gay friend is a bit jarring. The cinematography is amazingly good for such a low-budget production. The dialog is far superior to the delivery by most of the actors. The story is choppy but holds together well. With a better budget, a bit of polish and some more experienced actors it would be a much better movie. This film is more of an unpolished gem (VERY unpolished), but it's worth a watch especially on free streaming.

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• Dull indie drama

  Leofwine_draca2017-07-26

  ARMYNEL is a very boring indie drama mismarketed as a horror film by Amazon. The only thing of interest about it is the appearance of indie star Bill Oberst, Jr. in a minor role. The rest of the narrative follows a young blonde woman around as she suffers from nightmares and hallucinations and undergoes hypnosis only to discover a dark secret. This yarn-worthy effort is all talk and no real incident, and as such a mighty bore, even if it is fairly well shot.

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