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I'm unsure why this film got such bad reviews; it certainly wasn't as terrible as some of the reviews lead me to believe it would be! It's definitely a long winded movie, but I watched it with my horror loving family and we all enjoyed it in the way that one enjoys a mindless slasher movie. Old People wasn't anything incredibly groundbreaking, or a cinematic masterpiece. It was on the gory side, but I didn't find it egregious like Terrifier - though I wouldn't watch Old People with kids or very sensitive folks. For how long the movie is, there was a lot that's left unexplained and the "plot" was loose and got lost in unnecessary B-plots. Despite its faults, it's a solid zombie/contagion-esque film that. The movie reminds me of 80s slasher films and has some very good scares and horror moments. Overall, there's potential for this to have been a fantastic movie that flopped a bit, but I would say it's worth checking out.

Surprisingly this was a pretty good horror slash thriller film. I think it deserves a little higher of a rating then it has been given here. It was an enjoyable movie when it comes down to it. Sure its really quite violent and gory but you do expect that from a horror type film. It was also pretty darn sad when you think of it and what drove these old people to murder was because basically they have lost all hope in life of someone taking care of them. The acting was ok in this and i felt especailly the daughter held her own and was very brave. The direction worked well but i will say the script could be improved in areas. Apart from that though not a bad nextflix horror film.

It is obvious that this movie is not the common horror flick where old people replace zombies. Hell no, it is horror only on form, but certainly not on the meaning. It is a prophecy scheme, a warning message towards young and middle aged generations about the elders; there are more and more, not living, but surviving and waiting for the ultimate deliverance. In the past we had some horror films where it was question of killer kids, for instance a Spanish movie from the late seventies; Spanish cinema and its obsession for kids in horror films. I am sure we will see more features like this one in the future. But this topic could have been written in a different way, not necessarily in a more or less Hollywood style.

I'm not sure what I'm watching here. I thought at first it was about weak and helpless old people who by some supernatural power became evil and wreak havoc, until I saw one of them pass out after some physical altercation like a normal human being, powerless as he was tied to an oven.

So if they're strong enough to attack and terrorize everyone, why stay in the senior home like they have no choice to begin with? Leave the town and have fun living your senior lives elsewhere instead of killing people off because you're supposedly abandoned, lol.

It's overall bad, the plot, the concept, the depressing color tone, the acting. Sometimes when a horror movie is bad it can at least be fun. This one is both bad and meh. I kept waiting and waiting for something good to happen and it never did.

I regret the time spent watching this as I was looking for some Halloween fun, this was anything but.

I'm surprised to see this one being uprated because I thought it was diabolically bad. It's the latest digital horror to hit Netflix, this time German, but if you're thinking of something approaching the quality of recent TV show DARK then think again: this is bargain basement from beginning to end. The story is about a virus that transforms old people into slavering monsters, as evinced in the first scene in which a carer finds an unwelcome surprise in the home of one of her clients. But what follows is cheap, grey, too dark, entirely generic, with the oldsters pretty much depicted as zombies. Some violence, plenty of goo and gross-out moments, but zero suspense or viewer involvement.

Netflix has done it again. What a stupid and boring german movie. The plot is stupid, the acting sucks and the whole movie just dont make any sense. A bunch of old german people running around and killing everyone in sight. Its not new or a fresh take on a zombie apocalypse, Its just plane out lame. In one scene, a nurse gets attacked by the old people, and instead of running or hiding, she makes a phone call in front of a group of murdering old people? Makes no sense. Again, the whole movie makes no sense. And in between the old people, a lot of boring and meaningless germans have boring dialogue. Avoid or waste your time you will never get back.

I've seen a lot of articles about people complaining this movie was to brutal. I honestly don't understand. There were So many movies just as, if not more brutal that have passed through. The Hostel franchise, Green Inferno. I'm certain I'm missing quite a few. It might be the fact that it centers on the elderly that it offends, I can't say. All in all, I personally thought it was a solid watch. The acting was good but not over the top.. The family dynamic and characters were believable. Sadly in today's world life is like this for many of our elderly. I most definitely would recommend it to any horror fan!

Old People:A dark German film, while it is thematically similar to Mom and Dad, it;s darkness is not leavened by the black humour of that film. It does involve social commentary though of a realistic rather than satirical form. Old people are left on their own in flats with limited home help, dumped in inadequately staffed nursing homes. The film begins in an urban area with an old man rising from his wheelchair and battering his carer to death with an oxygen bottle, even the innocent will suffer, In the distance we see fires raging in a city, signs of the elders revolt. Most of the action takes place in a rural area and while there some soapish strands to the story it is an engaging narrative. Mostly the elderly target anyone younger, there are some exceptions where familial ties stay their hands. Mostly they resemble Zombies the the way they gather together, surrounding and attacking houses. Some savage scenes of horror as younger people are torn apart, axed, battered to death, The film might have worked better with 10 minutes shaved off it's 101 minute running time but it's certainly worth watching even if it's message is delivered with a heavy hand. Directed & written by Andy Fetscher. On Netflix. 7/10.

Yes, of course it could have been better and i rly wish there had been some other choices.

BUT at least this has a decent plot and the premise is relevant.

I am german and seldom watch media content made from "home", i just dont relate to the way actors tend to speak in movies and shows... so if find myself NOT beeing turned off by that, then it has to be sth. About it thst grabs me.

Surprisingly this did.

And i enjoyed this a lot more than 90%of the horror ive seen this year (and i watched over 120flicks). Eg i watched hellraiser22 right before this and though it has much cooler shots and overall set... the budget was huge and that made for great visuals... but that was all i liked about it.

At least this movie has something u may think about at the end.... if u choose to think, that is....

Well no pun intended and I won't say the word, because you probably know anyway which one it is. It starts off with a quite gruesome scene - and then gets brutal. Yes you can say this was another pun. Old people in our society have it quite bad to say the least. Generally speaking that is - the director somehow made some observation of that, while being out in town. I guess he saw how alone they are - or he felt they looked that way.

There are some real worries and problems he integrated in the movie. I know that many at the festival I watched this had issues with the performances. I actually liked most of it. Yes you do have cliche scenes ... like the one about love and being eternal or not. Of course this also plays into the aging theme ... but could have been handled better.

This points at an issue our society has - one that will not end up the way it is portrayed here.

Old age is a scary thing: losing your mind to dementia, your body to decay, your home and your property as you settle into a residence for the elderly, and your social life, as your friends die and your children abandon you.

Andy Fetscher seems to be aware of this, as throughout the film his characters pay lip service to at least the abandonment of the institutionalized elderly by their families. Yet he does not find artistic potential in the existential horror of the situation, opting instead for a bizarrely German approach to the subject: a script that is 70% mainstream German family film of the era, very much in the vein of Til Schweiger, and 30% cookie-cutter zombie flick wherein the elderly stand in as walking corpses.

For lack of consistent tone, creative kills, competent gore or clear rules to the old people's uprising this does not work as a horror movie. Zombie movie cliches are employed to a satirical degree and the sound designer seems to be aware, as the ghostly howls and monstrous gargles with which the elderly are overdubbed seem to intentionally cross the border into comedy.

As a heartwarming family film this does not work for lack of conflict, comedy and any-dimensional characters. The protagonist family of four is ridiculously underwritten. A long-winded setup that centers on a sepia-drenched family wedding fails to equip any of them with goals or flaws, much less arcs - the film's greatest weakness, as its focus remains on familial interactions throughout.

A ridiculous finale wherein the powers of love and music save the day had the cinema in laughing fits and was by far the movie's most enjoyable moment. On another positive note, the film is well shot and well lit, set and costume design is competent and the synth-heavy musical score although heavy-handed wouldn't be out of place in a better zombie film. Old People's complete and utter failure as any kind of film comes down to its writing.

Writer and director Andy Fetscher recounted to us how he conceived of the film as he watched an old woman walk with a rollator, her stunted movements akin to those of the undead. A distasteful thought that should have been forgotten.

The plot is basic. Nothing special. The back sound doesn't fit well with the scenes. The acting is exaggerated, especially for the ex-wife. And looking at older people acting as zombies is weirdly laughable. I hope they are well paid because the acting is dead-ass horrible. The cinematography is also basic. It can't help either, how miserable the movie is. If you get easily disturbed, you should pick other movies because Old People is in the gore movie genre, not purely supernatural horror like Netflix mentioned in the film bio.

Well, the point is, I wasted one hour and forty minutes of my life watching this rubbish from Netflix. This one is a flop. Don't waste your time.

This German horror-thriller starts promising enough and I think it aims for some kind of social commentary on how inhumane we many times treat our elderly (putting them into homes and forgetting about them).

However, this movie totally misses the mark. For one thing, the elderly kill people indiscriminately, good or bad, hence making them rather a unsympathetic lot.

And the home for the elderly is made too depressing, it almost feels like an open concentration camp, hence exaggerating the premise of the movie into almost a caricature, lessening the impact of any kind of message they want to put forth.

And the direction is extremely anonymous. It's very easy to see that the director has worked a lot in television because the whole movie has the look of a tv-movie with added gore.

There are some interesting bits here and there and also a few neat ideas, but basically this is an "old people-zombies movie" with a lot of borrowings from much better movies (primarily the zombie -movies by George A Romero) that feels a lot longer than it is.

I have to say I'm surprised by the hate. Sure the ending was a bit flimsy and the movie pretty much came across as a zombie film but it was tense, gruesome and had a nice brooding tone. Some of the scenes were a little dark and a couple of "wholesome" scenes were a little cringey. I'm not sure why the start was shot with all these floaties in the air to give that fairytale look, came across a little cheesy. Horror film.-wise I was surprised who lived and died, it was not who I expected. All in all, not a bad film and if you like slashers and zombies, this one will be right up your alley. Also I always have a soft spot for German language films that aren't war movies!

Now I'm afraid to go visit my grandmother. I noticed she looked rather menacing last time. I bet she's, right this moment, making a macaroni & cheese with glass shards.

Ok, so this movie was sort of pointless and not scary at all. Luckily it's on Netflix, where the subscription cost is high, but the channel does put out some good stuff every now and then. This movie's not one of those.

I won't give away anything, because what you've read in the synopsis is all you need to know. Just go in with no expectations and you won't be disappointed. I'd give it an A+ on saving money on the lighting bill, and that's about it.

Think of this as The Night of the Geriatric Living.

It is very moody and unusal and clearly, based upon some fo the other reviews, not for all tastes.

I really liked it. It's diffferent and kept my interest to see what was going to happen.

The basic plot is whomever breaks up the family is cursed. And then there are the old people who are discarded to old age homes. Hence the title Old People.

I will say that one of the things that distracts from the movie, and may make others think the acting is bad, is that it's dubbed in English from German. I'd bet anything that it plays way better with subtitles in the original language.

Be open minded and give it a chance.

I don't get the dislike for this one. When compared to Hollywood horror these days Netflix has this and it's not actually that bad. I'm reminded of a movie called Alone in the Dark from 1983. On that movie, crazy people break out of the nut ward during a blackout. Jack palance was the head crazy guy and Dwight Schultz was the doctor trying keep him and his family alive.

No spoilers but let's just say to those who remember Alone in the Dark, this one also has a head crazy guy too. Except this guy is leading seniors who go on a killing spree during a thunderstorm. Surprisingly gruesome for a movie about killer old people it's clear their motives are revenge for neglect. Sorta a like a statement on how our society's lack of empathy is the reason for the madness.

There's a mom and her kids caught up in the thunderstorm who fight for their lives as the seniors run amok. The movie is full of action, suspense, violence, and lots gory brutality. Our most vulnerable are fed up and they're rising up with vicious results.

I'm not sure what so many were looking at here but I found it to be satisfying even with an ambiguous ending. The darkness comes from our most vulnerable people in society. Our most vulnerable aren't going to take it anymore.

It's horrifically bad .... Beyond awful ... don't waste your time.

I can't believe anyone thought this would be a good movie .... I laughed and cringed my way through it ....

The voice overs are awful & don't fit the characters , the whole movie plot is a joke & very cheaply made.

Why anyone would put money into making this rubbish is beyond me....

They don't make good horror / thrillers anymore everything's just a very poor copy of previous work.

The ending , much like the rest of the film was absolutely laughable , none of it makes any sense ... they must of been high or drunk when they made this ....

Horrible RUSHED plot. No character development... the overacting was super cringy. I was laughing so hard at how bad this movie was. I have a tear in my eye as I write this because of my laughter. Wooooo... that's time out my life that I'll never get back. This was only gory... but the gore wasn't overwhelming, which I guess was it's only redeeming quality. This might have been pretty decent had the plot not been so rushed and at most, chaotic and unhinged. I found myself asking "wait, what?" And not in a "surprising twist" sort of way, but in a befuddled, "this doesn't make any sense sort of way. This could've been so much more had the proper time and care been put in.