Uncle David

There are moments when this film seems to have a story and destination, but Ashley Ryder, porn performer, was obviously cast for his physical appeal, not acting ability.

The story and film are lurid and puerile. Down-and-dirty film-making can be seriously brilliant (Tangerine) or shockingly poor and self-indulgent, as is this film.

This is not a comedy, not a horror and not a thriller, let's get that out of the way.

It's a dark love story of astonishing honesty and beauty and one of the finest films I've seen in recent years.

It's uncompromisingly honest in a truly refreshing way with incredibly nuanced and powerful performances by David Hoyle and Ashley Stryder.

The settings and cinematography are excellent, as is the original score and songs.

This is a film that doesn't tell you how to think or feel about it... it creates a web of emotions and possible interpretations that are perhaps more beautiful left unresolved.

Despite the story arc, my strongest impression was of the joy of simple pleasures.

I absolutely loved it.

It's my pet hate on IMDb when I see the film makers reviewing their own title, and badly too. There is not one soul on the planet earth who would call this film biblical or dare to suggest that Hitchcock himself would be a fan. Only a desperate director anxiously trying to fool people into renting or buying his film would write such garbage.

I sat through the majority of this title so I could fairly comment on it. I have to say that my eyes are heavy, I feel drained and many many precious minutes of my life have disappeared without anything in return. It's an awful plot that Hitchcock would have gasped at. I think he would feel let down by the fact that modern technology has opened the steel gates into the highly respected filmmaking world and been flooded by fools looking for a quick buck.

Keep IMDb for real films and real filmmakers. Fair enough if this is your first film, but at least wait until your skills have improved before you fool people into wasting their limited time trying to understand dribble.

Good luck on new projects. Come back when it really is biblical.

After viewing this I felt compelled to write a review of the WTF I just watched. Uncle David is a movie that's only crutch is it's disturbing factor because besides that this movie is unbelievably bad! And even the idea of disturbing is kinda of joke here. The story is supposed to about an uncle and nephew who are both of consenting age to have their bizarro relationship. All that really goes down in most of this is guy blabbing about his philosophies of life to someone so bored out of their mind that they wanna be murdered by this guy.

Most of what happens here is nothing. The only thing I even remember slightly happening was some bad dance sequence to a song that sounded like a poor man's cover of Muse "Uprising" . Speaking about the music this movie over all feels like it's some weird ass musical. And a bad one at that.

Mind you some of this is pretty effective and dark but most of the film seems so bizarrely inept and badly acted and poorly mic'd that it looses the little bit of good has going for it.

If you are aware of the work of David Hoyle then you'll understand that a David Hoyle movie is probably going to be unlike most other movies. And it is.

It's not an exhilarating experience, but it's meditative, extremely funny, apocalyptic (in a personal sense) and occasionally disturbing. It's a small, intimate film, there are only two people on the screen for the majority of the running time, other people in this story hardly matter and are figures in the background. But the ideas are vast.

I loved it, but then I'm a fan of Mr.Hoyle's work and wasn't expecting a conventional film. And I didn't get one, but that's fine by me.