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This movie has an interesting premise. Beginning of the movie was good, but later on it lost its charm. Simply because there were never introduced the rules of what was happening. Filmmakers probably wanted it to be ambiguous, but it came across as not thought through. There is quite good buildup for the mystery of "dying tomorrow", but it has no payoff. The ideas that filmmakers are presenting to viewers aren't original or too much of thought provoking material. Overall, I was disappointed. Premise, cast, good reviews from critics - it was all for nothing in the end.

I really appreciate the ideas this movie portrays. I believe this movie is commentary on nihilism. How nihilism can be very contagious, and can be easily spread like a disease. It was an interesting, and very important topic that not a lot of films explore. However I was just so bothered how needlessly repetitive and annoying the presentation was. there were so many scenes that attempted an experimental artistic style that came across as cringe-worthy. there was Nothing that was emotionally deserved in this movie, and I wished Amy Seimetz would've just develop the ideas and story more. Instead this movie just feels so static and lifeless, and when it was finished I wasn't at all satisfied.

There were definitely decent ideas and concepts going into this movie, like I said the subject matter and the topic was really interesting. Although I was just disappointed at this attempted artistic expression that in the end came across as pretentious.

5/10

She Dies Tomorrow (2020), Directed by Amy Seimetz.

She Dies Tomorrow is the sophmore film from Amy Seimetz that's stylised visuals result in it feeling often times weightless and lacking density.

Seimetz's use of visual story telling here is impeccable, from the neon colours representing the central cursed idea, to the poignant lighting sparsley used, conveying terror when it is - the cinematography and visuals are by far the standout here; along with the sharp editing that keeps the pace on this albeit short film as it is, at a fluid pace throughout.

However, as much as I enjoyed this - mostly for its intriguing premise - unfortuantely, the execution just isn't fully there. Sitting at just one hour and 25 minutes, She Dies Tomorrow just didn't feel like there was enough meat on the bones; we get introduced to such an array of characters, yet spend such little time with any them to really understand who they are. As the film progresses, characters keep getting introduced but our interest in them fades more and more with every new addition. Because of this, the film begins to feel weightless.

The themes of mental health and the literal fear of death are poignant and relevant here, giving us something to relate to but because of our absence of any real main character, Seimetz almost throws the themes out there and hopes something will stick with audiences - and like most 'deep' films, its up to interpretation. This ambiguity some will like, adding to repeat viewings but not me, this comes across as unintentional and a cop-out for actually crafting an organised and cohesive film.

The acting throughout is stellar across the board, I just wish the cast had more to play with in their characters.

This feels like a common case of style over substance.

Cause this film really felt like I'm being trolled. But I am going to approach this film seriously because in some way I can relate.

The film had a promising start, and I was interested in what this film is going to be about. Was it going to be about a destructive depression? Maybe about how this state affects the main lead or her closest ones? Well, no.

The film is just a mess of half-baked philosophical ideas that go nowhere and a bunch of "you know what would've looked cool" scenes with good music. I wouldn't call it artsy since they seemed to have a basic understanding of what they wanted to show and I understand that (it's easy to understand some of the basic allegories). Although some scenes are intentionally stretched out to get the film to full feature-length. And don't get baited on the reviews that say that this film is deep, I have seen internet videos and conversations on the themes of the film that were much more deep and compelling.

The film had no ending, it seems that for some reason (maybe writing themselves into a corner) the film had a different ending than whatever was planned since there were lots of weird cuts and the ending felt very disconnected. So, I am assuming they had no idea how to finish this or the ending was re-shot.

The idea of contagious suicidal thoughts did not impress me at all since I've seen a small film called Pontypool (2008) and it was great.

The tones of mortality and the meaningless efforts of trying to fill your life with anything you deem (or convince yourself) important are very mishandled. I mean, you can achieve a better story with the core idea of "anesthesia of life" that people administer onto themselves, like career, children, hobbies, anything on that matter. The writing was just too unrefined and raw, the dialogue and the delivery were so bizarre and out of place that I seriously thought I am being trolled. The script could've used more work. As nonsensical as it sounds, the film had real potential.

I know my depression, I had thoughts of me dying tomorrow many times, this is just not it, this is not how this works. This is not smart writing. Futility and mortality are handled so much better if you project those through a well-written character, the best example I can think of is Rust Cohle from True Detective (Season 1).

The film was short, not intentionally, but because they didn't know how to write the ideas into the story.

I rated this film 3 stars for some visuals and ideas, but it ultimately disappointed me because I saw the potential in it. They should've spent more time and effort on this.

I cannot recommend this to general audiences or horror fans, because this is not a good psychological thriller or horror, and this is not a good film altogether. I'm sorry.

What if a sense of impending doom was transmittable? There. I just saved you 85 minutes.

There are no characters you care about, there aren't any deep interesting conversations, there aren't any events that take place. The promise of an atmosphere glimmers occasionally but nothing comes of it.

I think the cinematography was trying to be artsy but it came of as lazy. The main music choice that plays on repeat countless times is frankly absurd for a serious horror movie in 2020. However, that in addition to the editing, which had a downright comedic timing, make me think this is supposed to be a dark comedy. Either way it fails.

A short movie stretched to its absolute limits to get to feature length.

It's almost funny, because this movie is clearly clumsily trying to say something about how people waste their lives living in fear and how they should really stop with all their boring vapid hipster nonsense and go out and really live.

and yet...here is this boring vapid hipster excuse for a movie trying to waste part of my life with its cheap stoned high school kid philosophy, when I could be doing something more fulfilling.

Well, congratulations movie, you win. I'm turning this off to do something else. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?

Someone will die tomorrow and it could be you! Would you be prepared? What if every day or most days or some days that thought crossed your mind, and your mind could change in the blink of an eye, as your brain chemistry distorts and malfunctions. Unsettling, in many ways, and not just because of its original and unique presentation but the great way it catches those with misogynistic tendencies.

Oh dear, oh dear... What did I just watch?

I sat down to watch the 2020 movie "She Dies Tomorrow", as I was initially lured in by the movie's title. Sure, I had no prior knowledge about the movie, nor did I know what it was about. But I liked the title and the movie's cover/poster, plus the fact that it was a new movie that I hadn't already seen also helped to convince me to sit down and watch writer and director Amy Seimetz's "She Dies Tomorrow".

Well, I didn't even make it halfway through, then I simply gave up on the movie out of immense boredom. This movie was abysmal to sit through. The storyline was just a random heap of... Well, you get my meaning here. And it was a massive swing and a miss in terms of managing to entertain me.

I am sure that the actors and actresses in the movie were doing adequate jobs, but I cared so little about the characters, given the fact that the storyline and plot was utter rubbish, so I didn't invest any interest in the pointless characters.

"She Dies Tomorrow" was boring and odd, but not in a good way or enjoyable odd. The movie was just downright strange.

My rating of the 2020 movie from writer and director Amy Seimetz lands on a mere one out of ten stars. This was seriously one of the most pointless and boring movies I have had the misfortune of stumbling upon in a long, long time. And I can honestly say that there is a snowball's chance in Hell of me returning to watch the rest of the movie.

Everyone has that moment in life when their own death stops being an abstract idea and instead becomes something much more immediate and tangible. You go from thinking "I'm going to die some day" to "Holy crap, I'm actually going to die some day!" My dad's death made me think a lot about it. I saw the actual process of death and I started picturing myself in the same bed, going through the same process.

But most people are able to get on with their lives despite knowing that those lives are going to someday end. You might think about it occasionally but you're then able to put the thought away and think about other things. But what about those who can't put the thought away? What about those who can't get past it? What about those who can't figure out how to possibly go about enjoying the time they have because they're so worried about it coming to an end? That's the feeling "She Dies Tomorrow" captures, and it captures it quite well.

And anyone who's ever struggled with some degree of anxiety knows that it could be anything. In this movie it happens to be death. But some other person might be obsessed with throwing up in public, or overwhelmed with repairs needed for their house, or any number of other things that seem silly and mundane and crazy to anyone who isn't obsessed with those things. But those things don't seem silly to the person experiencing the anxiety. Or rather, the person may know on some level that their worries are silly and disproportionate to the things they're worried about, but knowing that doesn't make the worry go away.

A year of global pandemic has I think made us all think about mortality a bit more than we normally would, and "She Dies Tomorrow" feels like a logical product of such a supremely anxious time. It requires some patience; it has that slow, droning quality that's really popular in the pseudo-horror genre these days, and which has made me despise some other recent examples of it ("Relic," "Possessor," "Mandy," "Color Out of Space"). But this is much better than any of those movies and rewards its audience much more for the patience they invest in it.

As someone who does have an anxious nature and tends to worry about stupid stuff, much of which is completely out of my control anyway, I found this movie to be weirdly comforting, because writer/director Amy Seimetz must have some experience with the same thing if she wanted to make this movie in the first place, and must have thought it was worth making because she believed there was a large enough audience of others who would understand and want to see it too.

Grade: A-

While much of the criticism towards this film is fair; the pacing is often sluggish with very little in the way of a gut punch payoff to justify it, but at the same time, that's kinda the point. It's very intention is to be an art house flick that floats through a dream like haze of dread and despair without carving out an overly intricate plot. Not to say that there isn't a coherent linear narrative, but the film's strength is it's oddball sensibility and the nihilistic undercurrent of it's themes, backed up by tasteful music and visual effects. I still do have some points of contention though. For a film that favours allegory over conventional storytelling, there doesn't seem to be that much depth to it's message outside of "life is short, death is inevitable". I'm also choosing to believe that the frequently stiff/robotic dialogue and performances were the product of a creative choice to make things feel more off kilter and surreal, but I'm not sure this was the best call. Plus, even when accepting the artsy aesthetic, it's hard not to be a bit frustrated by the lack of resolution to the film.

Not just the characters, but everyone who wasted their time and film making this steamy pile. At first I thought it was going to be a "slow burn" kind of movie, so I gave it some extra time. But this movie just has nothing to it, no meat at all. There are some times where I think it's an accidental comedy, one of those pretentious movies that takes itself so seriously but really has nothing to give.

But I can't even give it that much credit.

There really is just nothing to this movie. It's vapid, meaningless, and pointless. I'd rather watch The Happening with Mark Wahlberg than watch this again.

I say this with all seriousness, I'd rather watch a home video of the writer/director calling her friends on the phone and telling them of the 'inspired' (more like insipid) idea she has for a feature-length film and them telling her how brilliant it an idea it is. The premise is more doomed than the characters. I wouldn't normally be so mean, but the film is so pretentious, the snark is well-deserved.

I like visually interesting art house-ish type of stuff, but this was just boring with no pay off. It's just poor story telling. Save your time and skip this one.

It's like mixing the taste of a modern film student with the "can't write an ending" constipation of Stephen King. Only in this case there wasn't even an attempt at an ending.

15 minutes into it and I am totally bored and falling asleep. I should have read these reviews first.

Honestly speaking, this film is not for everyone. It's dream-like and it doesn't exactly have a vivid plot. Having said that, I think it still has strong points that suits my preference particularly. It's illusive with creative colors and imagery. It also deals with a lot of things that's happening nowadays: contagion, anxiety, how our behaviour and actions affect other people around us, which made me uneasy at times (as a horror fan, it's a good thing for me). And for that, this movie is still worth a watch.

I paid for this and want my money back.

No beginning, no end, no plot. It wasn't even an artistic piece. It was just boring.

What did I watch?

I never write reviews for movies but was so disappointed in this one I had to.

I loved this film. It isnt for people who just watch movies its for the people who love movies and can appreciate the work put into it. I hate scrolling through these reviews to see multiple people complaining about it being hard to follow, ITS COSMIC HORROR! No specific answers should be expected, but I can understand how not understanding the genre while enduring the film can cause complications. This film reminded me a lot of The Endless, another one of my favorite cosmic horror films. The amount of convoluted approaches it takes to put cosmic horror onto screen, you see so many lousy cosmic horror originals or adaptations, it feels so genuinely great to see a cosmic horror film I can sit back and appreciate, because these dont come around often.

This film seems like an insider project. You know where someone in the industry or a friend of a friend gets to make their dream project. It's the only reason I can think of to have Michelle Rodriguez in this movie, a favour for a friend. I could be completely wrong but that's how it feels.

The movie...utter crap. I was actually excited to see this from watching the trailer, but its such a disappointment.

Clearly they thought they were on to a clever idea...they were wrong.

A better film would have been of they all died in the first 5 minutes!!!!

Brexit, climate change, inflation, impending nuclear war, capitalism, systemic injustice. Everyone in 2022 feels the way they do in this movie, right?

It needed a second act...if it had a second act this might be a cult classic!

First have of the movie has almost no dialogue. I think the director was trying to build emotional power but for me it came across as pretentious and boring. But the time it gets anywhere interesting I think we are all asleep