Kinderfanger

I thought it was a decent B-Movie with an interesting take on an old fairytale. The female lead, and the boy have an emotional story to them, and you really root for them. Which is nice to do in a horror.

Although the emotional pain of the female lead is quite intense, and might be triggering for some as the subject is child abuse. I think it's an important story to tell, and it makes her very real. I actually really loved the ending as well even though I saw it coming a little.

It wasn't really tense, or scary though, but I did like the creature design. The special effects weren't the best, but I found it easy to look through that with the story. The male lead was meh, and just felt like a tag on though. I felt he could have been developed more.

I thought overall it was worth a watch.

It was a difficult watch I must say, and I am certain that not for me alone. Whoever dares to give this a try will have the same faith, standing still in front of the TV, waiting, praying for something to happen. Kinderfanger has 2 stories, the main one, that gets too little time, and surprisingly a second one, that is sort of better developed. Problem is the first one is the real story and the second one is simply to fill the time, which is only 90 minutes!

Now, I'm not going to say that it was infuriating, but at times it really was, because this little film gives close to nothing to the viewer. Perhaps on paper it looked good, I honestly can't say, but it offers as little as possible: no real effects, no cool deaths, no real villain, no heroine and no surprises.

Thus, there is absolutely no reason to recommend it, simply look elsewhere and find anything else, probably it will be better. For a low budget horror, it failed as bad as possible.

Cheers!

At the beginning of the film, it is already said what kind of movie it is. The director of this film does not understand how the script and staging work; how the methods of camerawork work and for what purpose; how and why motivated conflicts arise and how they affect the plot. Therefore, all this creative enthusiasm is perceived as a school theater production, which, moreover, is completely uninteresting, a banal, cliched attempt to pass off primitive fantasies as a film form, without content, without at least some dramaturgy.

Talented creators can do without special education, based on their inner world and unique intuition, but here it's the opposite.

I was pleasantly surprised, granted the acting could be better but you get what you get with B-movies.

Doesn't rely on jumpscares and I really like the idea behind it. Granted the special effects are not like a high-budget movie, but it was better than expected. It's not the greatest movie out there, but for once I actually cared about the characters.

If you can look past the acting and the effects, it's a decent watch. Not another horror with the same plot, it added more thriller moments as well. The female lead is great in her role, loved the idea behind it. Could the execution be better? Yes, but that can be said about any movie.

OMG! This movie will put you to sleep. It is so slowly and incompetently directed that it will have you running for the hils.

It's not so much that the acting is bad, it's the writing and directing. I swear, I watched 25 boring minutes and still had no idea what was going on.

The movie is all over the place and not in a good way. At the 25 minute mark I started nodding off. It's THAT boring.

And none of it makes sense. If some weirdo keeps surprising you by showing up unanounced in your house would you keep entertaining him?

I wouldnt.

It's a dismal movie that is not worth your time or effort.