To Become One

I saw the trailer for this and was not expecting it to be anything more than a slasher film. Boy was i wrong. It begins as a normal slasher movie and then about 40 minutes in, it changes. That's when it gets really creepy. I really enjoyed the character moments in the first half. The second half just gave me nightmares. I would like to say i will watch this film again but I do not think I can do this. It freaked me way too much. It shows a lot of depth and is different from the director's first movie, Demons in My Head. I see he shot this one himself and the results are much better than his first outing. the film has a real visual mood. The picture quality on the DVD could have been better, but at least it was letter boxed. I hope you enjoy this film as much as I did. I wish i had the courage to watch it again. The British doctor in the film is great, and very sexy for an older man.

I didn't watch To Become One determined to hate it. I never take that approach to watching a movie. It seemed interesting enough, and regardless of its low budget I was intrigued to see what it would do with it. After watching, I did think the premise was good and the main lead actress was not bad at all. But... I didn't like the rest of the movie at all. It is very amateurish, with the lighting far too dark in places and the constant switching from colour to black and white and vice versa was distracting, if this was an attempt to be innovative it was a very clumsy one. The camera shots did nothing to enhance the mood- rather obvious too often actually- and are so choppy and darkly lit that some of what is happening in the movie is incomprehensible from a visual standpoint. The writing is muddled and just doesn't have any kind of natural flow. Never once is there anything convincing or memorable. The story is even more of a mess. Much of the first half had me bored, and the film itself seems to have no idea whatsoever what it wants to be as well as being very heavy handed, which also manages to be handled clumsily. The first half is like slasher horror, this didn't work as there is a complete lack of suspense, so much predictability in the storytelling, the gore is very artificial-looking and choppily shot. At no time was I biting my nails or particularly drawn in to what was happening. The second half switches to a more psychological approach, and this may have worked if there were any characters to care about and had any compelling storytelling. The characters instead are annoying, constantly infuriating the audience with their ridiculous actions, and everything just seems so contrived. Apart from the lead girl, the acting can do nothing with their characters or dialogue, which is a real waste. In conclusion, far from one of the worst movies I've seen but one that I didn't like at all. 2/10 Bethany Cox

To Become One is a Tomb of Terrors film from down under! It's an interesting idea sloppily executed. It starts out as a slasher than turns into a hospital/cult horror drama with a sort of reverse Basket Case scenario only without the deformed twin. The ending in a cave gets stabby. Overlong and poorly made though with an interesting idea. There's worse on the Tomb of Terrors box set.

This film highlights the dangers of camcorders. Whereas even the likes of awful low budget grade-Z directors like Ed Wood.Jr (Plan 9 from Outer Space, etc) had to be able to afford big, heavy equipment like cameras, lighting, etc, now anyone with a cheapish camcorder and some friends can make a lousy film!

This should be made compulsory viewing as an example at how not to make a movie. It starts off as a slasher genre like 'Friday the 13th', etc and then moves into 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest', or 'Snakepit' psycho babble terroriser and even Jim Jones suicide death cult! A complete inept mess. Don't confuse a jumble of bad ideas for original concepts.

The acting is terrible, gurning rules here, all Jim Carrey facial distortions, the directing is all over the shop and the script seems to be from about half a dozen different ones.

It only ran for nearly 90 minutes but it seemed so much longer....

I expected this to be a standard slasher film with teenagers, but was very surprised. About half way through the film, it takes a left turn into the really bizarre territory of mind control. My friends and I watched this, trying to predict who the murderer was, but found this was a film we could not predict. The concept is very original and creepy. I cannot say more as it will give too much of the plot away. Watch it in the dark and expect something new. i read about the making of this film in American Fangoria mag. Apparently the budget was only $2000, but it looks like it cost a million or so. Well directed and well acted all around. I would recommend this to someone who likes horror with a twist.