Clock

I adore horror movies that are still finding ways to be different this day and age. Alexis writes and directs a love poem metaphor to women everywhere who don't want to have children in a society where they are made to feel like outsiders.

The lead actress's performance is absolutely stellar, the writing is great, and the body horror is apt (albeit of a narrow stripe, that will likely go over the head of those who don't enjoy cerebral horrors).

If you like your horror movies to be intellectual, Feminist, well-acted, off the beaten path, and just plain interesting as compared to the usual fare, Clock will work for you. I very much look forward to seeing more of Alexis' work in future.

...from the caviar, salmon roe, and chicken eggs to the fish climbing out of the sea. The metaphor here is beyond Dr. Seuss style, you can't miss it.

As a sci-fi concept, this would have been amazing. If it were my movie , I would have cut the first scene completely (playground, it added almost nothing, the little it did is a spoiler), and then got more into the "clinic." But it's not and so it went from horror to horrible slow and steady.

One thing I'll give, the suspense sucks you in. It's so completely offensive and shocking you want to see where it's going. It's definitely a train wreck you can't look away from.

Would not recommend it if you are looking for a good old horror movie. The movie had a decent setup, a few scary scenes, and the potential to be a great horror movie. However, halfway through, it seemed like the filmmakers decided to abandon the ghost/horror stuff and instead opted for a Disney fairy tale-like storyline with the usual message about how everyone is perfect, and there's nothing to fix. . Most people, including myself, expect a horror movie to be scary. Instead, this movie goes for social and political commentary that may be important, but not whats expected of a horror movie. If anything It was more cringeworthy than horror.

Clock is a film that could have been good. It has a solid premise and set-up, although some of the dialogue is a bit heavy handed. The acting is solid - Agron is a great lead. However, the plot is completely scattershot and by the end the film has lost sight of whatever point it was trying to make. It constantly shifts gears, and in the second half piles on plot developments that really amount to nothing. Which is a shame because I think if it picked a lane and fleshed that out it could've been a really tight and engaging film. It's also devoid of any scares - though one scene at a birthday produced some solid tension.

A talented interior designer struggling with her biological clock(and her family, friends and society insisting that she get a kid) agrees to a clinical trial to fix it, and things take a turn for the worse.

This is a highly effective piece of elevated horror. There's some incredibly visceral gore. It's only 85 and a half minutes long if you don't count the end credits, and I understand why some say that it should have been an episode of an anthology series like Twilight Zone instead. If it were even 10 minutes longer I would be saying it should be trimmed. Diana Agron delivers an amazing performance as Ella, the protagonist. Honestly, it's worth watching at least once just to experience that. The visual metaphors are very obvious and a little of the thematic material is repeated maybe one or two times too many - "my name is Dr Elizabeth Simmons" especially.

It is very much the product of the Jewish 30-something female writer-director Alexis Jacknow, exploring the anxiety felt especially by her and people in the same situation. Part of this is seen in how it incorporates the Holocaust, fears that it might be repeated, and Jewish guilt. Some have felt that it mishandled Shoah, I disagree. I found it to be appropriate, in good taste, and I think when something so awful happens to a people they should have a lot of freedom in examining what it does to them.

I recommend this to anyone who wants something that honestly looks at the pressures to reproduce and all of the concerns that come with. 7/10.