The Surreal Project

I fell asleep 3 times while watching this, and didn't miss a beat. This was painfully slow, painfully acted, and just plain painful to watch. These kids should be ashamed of themselves for participating in this project. And all the "action" is off screen.

The premise was cool, the cover looked goofy but whatever, then I watched the acting. It's so hard to get through this movie but watch it if you want something hilariously badly acted.

If you like Hungarians sitting on couches and talking to the camera, you're going to love this movie. It never shows us anything, opting instead to let Hungarians on sofas describe it. Why bother with action sequences and flashbacks when you can let a Hungarian on a sofa talk to you instead?

A story about a demonically possessed painting offers at least some possibilities for generating horror; how astoundingly far this can be taken in skillful hands was demonstrated with the conceptually similar idea of a demonically possessed mirror in OCULUS (2013), a minor horror (non-found footage) masterpiece.

THE WHISPERING MAN, a story centered on a possessed painting and set in Hungary, has at least the seed of an idea that could have turned into an effective horror film, but unfortunately nothing is done with it here.

Virtually everything is bad: the dialogue, the delivery, the direction, the plot, and on and on. On top of that, every single character in the small cast behaves like an idiot at some point. Seldom have I seen a film which suffered from such a bad case of stupid character syndrome.

This is bottom of the barrel stuff. Not recommended.

Good luck with this one. They had an idea, it's an idea which has been done but still they tried. The painting of the whispering man isn't bad. There's a nice song. That's about it.

The acting is woefully bad. You'll think it's bad then they introduce another character and it gets worse. There's a smugness about the two main guys, like they're 15 year olds who have just smoked their first doobie.

It's pretty dull. Terrible acting. Don't bother.