The Surreal Project

I have watched this several times. It is not a great horror movie but the dialogue is charming. It has its flaws but it is a very cool concept. Yes it is a B-movie but it is a awesome B-movie.

Im a horror fan, that being said, im used to awful movies however this movie deserves a special place in hell. It was one of those Prime suggestions, so i expected bad but got so much worse. A Hungarian guy inherits a painting from his dead grandfather that looks like a grey alien head that someone painted in art class. Not long after, he claims atrange things begin to happen at his house. I say claim because the entire thing is filmed pov found footage style for his non existent paranormal show but the "happenings" mostly consist of off screen noises. To be honest, i dont know what was worse, the script or the acting... "i am concerned for you because you are looking very pale..." the script was obviously written by a non native English speaker and acted out by what i can only assume are hungarian film students. Bottom line, i found nothing about this film enjoyable and actually disliked it so much that i felt compelled to write this review in hopes the creator might see it and swear to never ever make another film.

Good luck with this one. They had an idea, it's an idea which has been done but still they tried. The painting of the whispering man isn't bad. There's a nice song. That's about it.

The acting is woefully bad. You'll think it's bad then they introduce another character and it gets worse. There's a smugness about the two main guys, like they're 15 year olds who have just smoked their first doobie.

It's pretty dull. Terrible acting. Don't bother.

Worst acting I've ever seen. I died laughing when the main character said "..I'm not an actor."

A story about a demonically possessed painting offers at least some possibilities for generating horror; how astoundingly far this can be taken in skillful hands was demonstrated with the conceptually similar idea of a demonically possessed mirror in OCULUS (2013), a minor horror (non-found footage) masterpiece.

THE WHISPERING MAN, a story centered on a possessed painting and set in Hungary, has at least the seed of an idea that could have turned into an effective horror film, but unfortunately nothing is done with it here.

Virtually everything is bad: the dialogue, the delivery, the direction, the plot, and on and on. On top of that, every single character in the small cast behaves like an idiot at some point. Seldom have I seen a film which suffered from such a bad case of stupid character syndrome.

This is bottom of the barrel stuff. Not recommended.