Reverb (2007)

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Admirable film.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Take a dead musician that wandered far into the occult, a cheap music studio, a camera and some crummy actors and you have garbage.Everything repeats in this movie, if you are too stupid to get the plot laid out before you once, they will spend the rest of the movie pounding it into your thick skull. By the time you watch the whole thing you swear you saw it three times - for those of us that do have a brain and are up and fully functional.You know it's bad when everybody dies, including the audience. Instead of moaning 'please help me' you will be screaming 'please kill me too'. The ending was one of those ultra-crappy ones, where they just have to jab you in the ribs one last time, so you have to run right out and vomit this thing out of you mind. If you have talent you might be able to forget what you saw in under 24 hours.I really can't imagine any section of movie goers actually liking this trash, so I would say that no one of any age will like this film. Not only should you not see this but you also shouldn't mention or remember that you ever heard of it.

The movie is just awful, the entire movie runs on the same scenes, from beginning to end, I dozed off many times when I woke up it seemed that I was exactly on the same scene. No too mention the darkness of the movie seems impossible to understand what is going on. I know I need 10 lines to send this subject but the movie is too bad to have 10 lines of review. All I can do is adding bad and more bad review. The story seemed to be done by someone who was drunk or high. I am not a movie reviewer but anyone who watch this thing can't not give anything less than 1 Therefore, lighten up Mr. Director. Invest your money in something more useful

I saw the first screening of Reverb at Bafta a few months back and you could really feel its effect on the audience as the tension mounted. These days most horror films rely on gore to try and make the audience feel something, and while this film does have its fair share of the red stuff it expertly uses old fashioned suspense to make you squirm. It also manages to make you care about the characters which really adds to the suspense. Visually the film is very different to most British horrors I've seen (and American ones come to that) and manages to go beyond its Far Eastern influences to create a hybrid I haven't seen before. The central idea behind the film is really strong and never once makes you question the reality of what is happening on screen. The performances are strong too, especially Eva Birthistle (who we last saw in State of Play) and Leo Gregory of Stoned fame. Go and see this when you get the chance, you won't be disappointed.

Okay, so I love a good horror movie. And I don't mind a few clichés. But what I hate more than death or taxes is goofiness. American horror too often goes for the goofy or the gross-out, and a lot of whatever genuine creepy you might get out of the concept is dissipated by the Beavis & Butthead-level jokes.Reverb has none of that in it. What it does have is a somewhat standard horror trope--think _Cigarette_Burns_, if you've seen it--played absolutely straight for all the chills it can muster. There's a good performance by the female lead, who I hope to see more of. There's also some fine camera work (the lighting of the studio is a natural) and a nuanced bunch of cheap audio jump-thrills.Now there are some plot holes. For instance, who might have been holding the camera in a pivotal bit of video (nobody mentioned could). There's also an awful lot of yelling at the screen, 'Just get out! No, dude. Just get out!' But I'll forgive a lot for a genuine chill or two, and I got them.I don't know what movie the last reviewer saw, but this one's a pretty effective and moderately original bit of Brit-horror. 8/10, because frankly, low-budget horror has a pretty low bar.