Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl

This atmospheric gem is comparable to the same-year film The Caretaker. Both are great bookends for scary-old-lady films made famous at first by Bette Davis. Creepy, artsy, with some sexual scenes but no nudity. No ghosts either.

For style as for the movie thank you for Wasting My Time like time is free I came for entertainment I got bored

This is an extremely slowwww movie with no pay off. I have no idea why this is on Shudder in their "A good scare" section. This is not a horror movie, or even a thriller, just a boring drama.

Lonely Adele moves in with her agoraphobic aunt to take care of her and get some money for her family and meets a free-spirited peer who leads her down a dark path.

Those uninterested in slow paced character studies would be wise to swipe Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl off their watch list immediately. Even those who enjoy such films might find parts of the journey interesting even when the destination isn't much to write home about. Performances are mostly decent to fairly good and the film is beautifully shot, evoking a 70's/early 80's mood right from the start. There are moments when the film could sit comfortably alongside the likes of Let's Scare Jessica To Death, The Nesting, or even the more recent House of the Devil. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to know how to end in a satisfying fashion and all that great mood and build up feels like it was all for naught.

I know this is a period piece, set in the 1980's. I realize it is well shot. The vibe is retro and eerie. However, the plot makes no sense. Character motives are devoid of logic. The ending makes no sense. It is as if there are fifteen minutes of important exposition missing from the cut I saw. Bad film!

We are never given answers. The ending seems both forced and hackneyed. There is absolutely nothing explained nor even hinted at. If you are going to tell me there are clues and there are answers hidden, and I would see them if I watched the film again, you will have missed the entire point of my review.