Ladyworld

I cannot understand why this movie has such a poor rating. It's definitely for the art house crowd, there's no denying that. However, when taking on a whole, the movie has much more than it seems to show on the surface. The other reviewers comparing it to Lord of the Flies are correct, with a similar vibe, just in a "disaster strikes at a birthday slumber party" way. I'm not saying this movie is great, because it's not. What it is, is an interesting representation of what happens to people left to their own devices in a crisis situation. Watch it for the acting, which is very good, and don't read too much into it, and you might actually enjoy this movie.

What drew me to this movie, first and foremost, was the cast. I've been a huge fan of actress Annalise Basso, who played Piper, for several years now. I'm also a fan of Ariela Barber, who played Olivia, who I had seen in a movie that she had done when she was much younger. It was nice to see her in something as a young adult with more mature material to work with. As much as I liked the premise of a close-quarters character study set in a very limited setting, how the movie actually played out (at least to me) was equal parts underwhelming and confusing. Scenes of tension and/or peril would start only to cut to more slow and mundane scenes out of the blue, sometimes right in the middle of the previous scene. It probably would've also been better of they had fleshed out the start and the aftermath of the earthquake a little better. One positive that I will give to this movie is that it looked to me like a mixture of The Shining and Suspiria, what with its deliberately haunting music and frazzled tempo.

I created an IMDB account just to review this movie:

This movie is a total waste of your time. Everything feels cheap about it, its annoying, and it does not have any sense of story. And it doesn't make sense. Please just watch something else, if you are intrigued by my review, just skip through the movie and you will understand what I mean.

Hate to say it, garbage.

An effing waste of time on a try hard Arthouse piece of trash. What was the point of the movie? Bad acting and direction.

I spend lots of time watching all sorts of films from low budget art to sci-fi blockbusters and i can honestly say this is the worst thing my eyes have ever seen i can understand the attempt at showing human nature in its true form but this is pure drivel and unbelievable.