Compulsion

This is not a great movie, yet if you are into the occult and horror in general, you may find something here that will spark something in you. There's nudity and blood in this and of course twists (the last one may be a bit redundant, but I've seen worse).

Characters may seem a bit out of touch with reality, but there's always a reason for things happening. If they act according to the world presented in the movie that is of course. Some may compare it to Eyes Wide Shut, yet that would not be fair, it's a different beast (masked orgy being one of the few things these movies have in common). Check it out, if you have a heart for low budget horror

Erotic novelist Sadie Glass (Analeigh Tipton) has a complicated relationship with boyfriend Thierry. At a book reading, she meets Alex who invites her to his palatial estate. She brings along new acquaintance Francesca.

At first, I assumed this to be an arthouse 50 Shades movie. Then there is the turn into an arthouse Euro horror. In the end, it's an Eyes Wide Shut situation with a bit of blood. Its biggest problem is the lack of depth with Sadie. She's a cold fish and there is no way to engage with her character. None of the characters have much depth. The Euro horror could have worked but like the vastness of its palace setting, there is an emptiness to the movie. It has no tension and makes no connection with the audience. This might work if Sadie starts off as a mousy character and the erotic horror starts opening her up. As it stands, there is no character progression either. It has the semblance of style with limited substance.

This was a weird movie. Lots of strange characters and scenes, lots of dream sequences, lots of sex, lots of empty dialogue. A few cheesy scares here and there, and some peculiar but nice visual imagery. I'll give that to the movie, the sets look beautiful, the castle is gorgeous and the visuals in some scenes are odd yet mesmerizing. The movie is a bit too experimental for its own good however, it is hard to take the story seriously when all the movie seems to want to be doing is look artistic and surreal. It also seems to take a few hints from Fifty Shade of Grey, but in a gothic-horror setting. Analeigh Tipton is an interesting actress but deserves better than this weak story-telling. Overall, a very bizarre film that just isn't very good. Added a point for the fine visuals.

This movie surely lacks a more detailed story. Was this a story at all???

But it has some nice pictures.

I have to say that I only bought it for 1 euro, cause I liked to see Lio wearing no clothes. She surely is a very beautiful woman, who can also act. But the script of this movie simply is very poor.

There are some explicit scenes, but nothing scandalous.

The thin story only allows 4 stars, but beautiful Lio allowed me to give 5 stars...

Simply When I started to see this film I started to give few minutes to try to understand the story, but I did not need more than 10 minutes to notice it did not have any substantial story, acting was terrible and the change of scenes so abruptly really overwhelmed my capacity to understand what this director wanted to show.. Lust? Cult? Gee according my perspective it this movie was all over the place and I did not buy the story!!

Somebody here gave it 9 stars saying this: . "Hopefully people can open their minds and remove the stigma attached to erotica thrillers with horror elements, it's a great genre" And yes I am agree is great genre but buddy, it needs to have a good story and believe acting! Is not about stigma, is about what can you learn from the story or simply make a story that is believable !