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I had no idea this was an anthology and was disappointed when I found out. The reason for that is that the opening Asian-American storyline is pretty decent, but then it suddenly finishes unfinished and we move onto increasingly less elaborate and engaging tales. Most dwell on predictable violence and shock scares, and the wraparound story goes nowhere either.

This dumpster fire of a film is currently on. I love my children, but I believe they picked this movie out as a first step towards cashing in my life insurance policy.

I don't know who this film might appeal to.

It's shares DNA with Creepshow and shows no real improvement on that film, despite decades separating them. Some of the cinematography is ok (particularly in the first section) but that is no reason to watch it,

Acting is poor to bad, script is generally poor, stories are poorly developed and don't connect. There is no phobia in any of the stories (in case that's what you wanted). It's rare for me to have nothing good to say about a film.

I write this review for those who, like me, are struggling to find something to watch in 2021 and feel this might be worth a try. It's not. Best avoided.

A shockingly bad waste of an hour and a quarter. This movie is literally about nothing. There is no plot, almost no acting, very limited lighting (bad movies are better when you can't see them, so I guess this is a plus). Seriously, I wrote more coherent stories in pre-K with crayons.

I was pretty excited when I heard this movie was coming out. I loved Alexis Knapp and Hanna Lee in the Pitch Perfect movies. And Leonardo Nam wasn't bad in the Sisterhood of traveling pants movies. I even sought it out when I saw it was released. However, I have to say they wasted these actors on what feels like an unfinished script. If you have seen the MASH episode Dreams, this basically a movie version of that episode as 5 different characters have their worst fears realized in their dreams. The only real difference is in this film is we find out that the government is making the characters have their bad dreams. And while this has potential, the movie never really engaged me. I won't spoil anything, but I was very underwhelmed by it all. The acting wasn't great, and I have a hard time finding most of the dreams believable. For instance, who is scared of middle school kids?

Additionally, Alexis Knapp is barely in the movie! They did her dirty by making her part so small :(. Also, the writing is terrible, and the ending is so sloppy you would think a middle school kid came up with it. Now I don't want to be too harsh because there is a chance this movie's filming got cut short due to Covid-19 because it was really short, and another 30 minutes would've really helped it tell a complete story. But with that said, I feel like they really needed to do some rewrites before publishing this movie because it feels like only half a movie.

Incoherent screenplay leaving anyone with a modicum of intelligence wondering how one portion of the movie relates to another. Hampersnow-28905 was kind in his/her review. This is rubbish that would make a purposeful hallucinatory experience unpleasant.

What a terrible disappointment and utter fiasco. This is one of those movies that you can tell had competent people involved (cinematography, music, editing, and some of the cast) but who somehow were infected by a deranged lunacy that led them to believe they were doing something worthwhile. This nothing of the sort. This is a completely incoherent mess without a shred of a plot, much less a script. Macy Gray is one of these people. I will avoid her in the future.

Very Terrible meaningfulness no good start no good end no good story just Terrible

I learned some new phobias today.

An anthology movie on Hulu. Five patients who suffered from different phobias were put into the test from a crazed doctor.

So that's the given synopsis of the movie. That's basically a spoiler of the overall arc of movie. What the heck?

Apparently the synopsis said these people suffered from phobias. Um not all of them did. Each time the patients were tested, we were taken back to their past. The first three were pretty mediocre, and the first one had a fire effect that was so horrible and fake. The last two was more sinister and interesting, especially the last one.

The movie maintained suspense mostly by having nonstop and a variety of background suspenseful sounds. Even though they often worked, sometimes they felt excessive and overused.

The overarching story was pretty laughable. It was stupid because it could have ended much earlier. There should be more effort into making the main story more competent.

Overall, not the best or the worst anthology, but it was pretty decent and entertaining. 6/10.

This is the worst horror anthology I have ever seen. None of the stories in this film are good

It is not so much about 5 dangerous patients escaping as it's about 5 people experiencing dangerous situations. Once I got pass the misleading plot summary, it wasn't a bad movie. Some of the anthologies could have used better conclusions but I was interested in what happened. Filming was good, actors were good. I think it deserves more than a 3.6. Normal I wouldn't have given it a chance with that low of a rating but I started watching it before I looked it up.

After watching part of it, I checked out the reviews and should have listened. I wasted so much time on this movie.

Really wanted to love this movie; so a great idea wasted.

It was all over the place. At times I thought I was watching 3 to 4 different movies.

Suppose the director is to blame for that.

Believe the reviews and don't waste a second on this movie.

The individual stories would be served better if the main story that connected all of them was removed. It would allow more time for each individual phobia story to be flushed out more. Separated, they each had something compelling to say, but were cut short to make room for the interweaving "main" plot. They also could have a bit more focus on the phobia itself that they were portraying. The actors did a pretty solid job but the storylines were a bit short to allow them to dive into their characters, motivations and set the environmental moods for each segment. Love Macy Gray though!

The film was original, entertaining and scary. I highly recommend the film. 10/10

This movie is simple, but I wouldn't really call it bad. Not sure about all these negative reviews. I came in with no expectation and I actually got something out of it. I liked how it just consisted of few shorter stories put together.

It doesn't really go deep into details and doesn't bother to explain much, and I actually liked this. Because, you know, if it was Netflix, they would've made five movies out of this one. One per each story, and they would've filled them all 80% with soap opera and some excess drama. That would be terrible.

It hasn't felt like it had any unnecessary drama or meaningless dialogues. Here it was all just enough to put together the stories and not waste my time. That I appreciate.

It's obviously a niche movie and a low budget one, but I didn't expect much else, when I came into this, so I'm satisfied with what I've got. I believe it is actually quite atmospheric, these disorders and events feel real, some of this could totally happen in real life.

I also have felt some 'Black Mirror' vibes throughout it, which is nice.

Split into five sections, with a central narrative tying them together, this film feels a tad disjointed. Each section has a separate director... and each is named after a specific phobia. "Robophobia" & "Hoplophobia" are the two best sections. The others leave room for improvement. Camilla Belle, makes her directorial debut with the latter of those two... and she shows assured cinematic control and storytelling. Other than that, this is really worth skipping.

Whoever cast this film wasn't looking for talent, they were keeping a spreadsheet. Whoever wrote this mess either has no talent to begin with, or made a conscious decision to be unoriginal, uninspired, and unrealistic to a fault. Whoever green-lighted this project was either leaping onto a bandwagon, or made the choice to pander to weak-minded muppets. In no way is this film worthy of the resources put into it, and it pains me that filmmaking in this country has fallen so deeply into this pit of placating and virtue signaling schlock.

It's clear Phobias won't win an Oscar or any other significant prize but it wasn't as bad as the ratings it gets, nor does it deserve extremely negative reviews. I don't think it was all that bad. To me it was good enough to watch once. I didn't know Macy Gray did anything else than singing. Her acting was'nt that bad at all. And the rest of the cast were also convincing in their roles, nothing cringing to watch in my humble opinion. The story sounded interesting, but it could have been better exploited. But do I need to watch it again in the future? No, that's certainly not going to happen.