Silent Retreat

I recently watched Silent Retreat (2016) for free on Amazon Prime. The story follows a manager who organizes a cabin retreat in the woods to build rapport among his quirky team. The caretaker is strange, the employees are even stranger, and the manager is hokey and naive (of course). When one employee goes missing during a jog, the group grows suspicious and begins investigating the campground. They uncover that a doctor once conducted bizarre experiments on a boy in that very cabin. Could this be connected to the disappearances?

Directed by Ace Jordan in his debut, the film stars Donny Boaz (The Young and the Restless), Danilo Di Julio (Echoes of Fear), Eli Bildner (The Morning Show), and Devon Ogden (Hollywood Dirt).

The acting and script are unintentionally hilarious-so bad it's entertaining in a "so-bad-it's-not good" way. This feels like a low-budget, made-for-TV horror movie, and not in a good way. I'd rate it 3.5/10 and only recommend it if you're truly out of options.

OMG,

Horrible writing by an angry, selfish, anti-everybody (especially those of faith) little child who thinks he has something to contribute to something....so sad it hurts. I hope whomever wrote or supported this film is getting some help, or perhaps someday will pick up a book. A car crash that nobody bothers to even look at....yep, that bad...

Watched this movie but was never sure how they want to pursue horror... I mean seriously? Movie builds some confidence while showing plot connections with mental hospital and the business trip people in the first few minutes but then I was just eagerly waiting for a horror pop-up when in between they just wanted to make it sensually interesting! Woah? Dude falling off the stairs dies without blood or bruises? OK then they tried covering up for that by surprise human hunt for what I'm still wondering... Not even good use of camera tricks for horrifying but then confusingly clarifying the fuss made up till the end... No boy, competition for horror is far ahead than what you thinking! Stars can be for acting, least to be said

This movie looks like and feels like a crappy porn movie. The acting is stilted and borderline offensive in it's inadequacy (the girl with the fake English accent is horrendous), the director did not seem to know what the hell he was doing, the script comes off as bad fan fiction, and the movie itself is predictable, clichéd and asinine. I mean, what were these people thinking? Did the actors really read this script and tell themselves, "I will be proud to add this to my resume?". If they did, it's no wonder I have never seen anyone act in anything else. Your poor judgment will be detrimental to your careers if you keep taking these skid-marked roles. Learn to say no when a script is garbage. Ask questions and offer insight as to how you can enhance the writer's vision. But, above all else, never work on another project ever again. I have seen porn films with better acting than this movie, and the FEW instances of blood and gore are so few and far between as to make this a XXX feature without any sex, class or creative vision. Just a freaking mess from beginning to end. I offer nothing but vomit for this travesty. May it be forgotten like the cesspool of talent it is.

SILENT RETREAT is your latest no-budget horror flick with no redeeming values and a lot of bad stuff indeed. It's a poorly-shot, poorly-acted mess, with a predictable storyline that goes nowhere and a general lack of motivation that makes it difficult to sit through. This is amateurish stuff indeed, with a bunch of hateful characters vacationing in a remote cabin for the weekend and finding themselves menaced by a foe. There's no sex or gore to speak of so nothing for the horror or exploitation fan, and indeed 99% of the running time consists of characters just wandering around aimlessly.

What we do get is a whole lot of arguing and insults between the unpleasant cast members. It feels as if the scriptwriters went out of their way to make the characters as unlikeable as possible, and it works; you'll be itching for them to die violently after about five minutes, although sadly it doesn't work out that way. I also have to laugh at the way these cheap US films always seem to have one Brit in the cast whose accent sounds completely unrealistic to this British viewer.