The Clinic

"The Clinic" turned out to be exactly what I expected, a movie with an original plot that utilised common horror aspects to create a passable film.

The movie itself is fairly simplistic, therefore I wont go into great detail. In terms of what is good about this movie, the fact that the plot is fairly original is a huge positive in relation to the movie's genre; in addition to this, despite the often uncomfortable nature of the story, it is one that is shocking enough to keep your interest until the credits appear. Finally, the acting was, for the majority of the movie, solid, therefore the characters and their predicaments were easy to relate to.

However, despite a passable movie made watchable by some fresh and engaging ideas, the horror constructs that piece the plot together are common and have been done before within the genre and done so to a far higher standard; there is little new here if only individual events are looked at. Furthermore, I felt somewhat sickened by some of the ideas proposed in this movie; they are beyond being chilling, to the point where the situation on-screen becomes just wrong and unentertaining as a result (my dislike of children being used in horror could contribute to this view). Finally, the ending to this movie was quite unsatisfying (not that I was expecting anything spectacular to conclude the cinematic mediocrity I had already witnessed).

Overall, horror fans may appreciate the fact that the plot to this movie is original, however the underlying horror elements have been witnessed many times before. Furthermore, this film is painfully average throughout, therefore I would only recommend it if you are very intrigued by the plot or genre.

Not only is the movie full of plot holes, it leaves loose ends all over the place. And what the hell are herds of live cows doing in a factory that is supposed to be abandoned?

The characters just seem to wander around aimlessly and get killed off one by one (wow, that is sure a new plot line..). They cannot seem to protect themselves in any way, even though an abundance of possible weapons are lying around all over. Overall, I get the feeling that a lot of the wrong parts were edited out of the movie.

In short, this movie is only worth watching at 2 am when your only other choice is watching vacuum cleaner infomercials.

When I picked this one up I was not looking forward to seeing it at all. I had just seen "Sutures" and I thought this was going to be along the same lines as that film. But I was Pleasantly surprised.

This film was pretty suspenseful. The story sucked me in pretty fast, I was interested to find out what was gunna happen to the main characters and how everything would be explained. However, as the film got closer to the end it slowly started to fall apart, and it all let up to a terrible ending.

The movie is worth watching for the simple fact that you will be very entertained up until the last 15 minutes or so, and there's a pretty good amount of gore so that should keep the gore hounds interested. Worth watching, just don't expect a great pay off.

The movie started out well. A pregnant woman, Beth (Bethell) and her fiancé Cameron (Whitfield) are on their way to spend Christmas with their parents. They decided to spend the night in a motel since it's late. Cameron decided to buy them both takeaway food but realized the shop is closed. When he went back to the motel, he find that Beth is missing. On another part of the story, Beth wakes up in a bath tub full of ice naked and realized that her baby is taken from her. The story of survival to find her missing baby begins.

Everything to the nudity, violence, gore and profanity is perfect. The suspense was good enough for me to continue watching. The acting and the atmosphere to it was also good. This was the first time that I watch a movie with Tabrett Bethell and she was amazing. Everything was good until the ending. I kinda felt unsatisfied when I finished watching the movie. I expected something more from it, a lot more. And not that simple. Since everything before the ending is good, I gave the movie a 6. Overall it's a good movie for all the horror fans out there if you have an extra time on your hands.

This film manages to be quite entertaining, the cast is decent at acting, the main couple is really good looking, the drama scenes are good.. but it could have been more innovative. You know, you see bunch of things you've already seen in lots of other movies. It seems like they're repeating the same old story over and over.

I'm being generous by giving it a 7; for an indie non-US movie, "The Clinic" is satisfying and worth a watch, even thought the ending could have been a thousand times better.

And I have never heard about James Rabbitts, but his directing here is fine and much similar to a Hollywood one.