WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
BakuryuuTyranno The monster costume interested me in the film, but said movie's content was dull. The 13th Child is another one of those movies about characters investigate a mystery the audience already knows the outcome of.It takes place in the small community near Pine Barrens which doesn't feel like a community at all. At one point we see inside a hospital, but essentially the movie could be taking place in the middle of nowhere. Occasionally, citizens who have little relevance to the plot appear and only rarely will these scenes have any payoff.Essentially, we're following three cops who investigate a murder and some creepy man living in a huge mansion. This keeps getting interrupted by "present day" scenes of an older cop detained in a mental facility. Again,since we already know the result of the mystery, this holds no suspense.
somenameaus I went to this picture's 'limited release' with few expectations that it would be close to the legend (despite how it was promoted), and I still walked away disappointed. If you've ever read about the Jersey Devil, the odds are good that you've heard the tale of how the thirteenth child of Mrs. Leeds was such a difficult birth that she cursed it, saying 'devil take that child!' This is not about that.Do not ever see this movie with others unless they don't mind you talking during it, because you'll need a distraction to escape the blindingly insipid script, catastrophic scene cuts, and embarrassingly horrible acting by most of the main characters. The addition of competent actors only makes the contrast between them and the rest of the cast all the more apparent, and the devil itself resembles a castoff from the Aliens movie with teeth made of plexiglass.All in all, the true horror of the movie comes at the end, when they promise that this is merely book one in a series.Don't pay to see this movie, unless you are a movie reviewer for a website that specifically thrives on reviewing the most horrible movies possible. From horrible editing to horrible acting to horrible scripting to horrible lighting, this movie fails in almost every way.
brentmonahan The trouble with small budget movies is that they must often sacrifice too much to get made. I wrote DeathBite with Mr. Maryk. That did very well as a book, but the film company that bought the rights went bankrupt, and the bankers decided to make the film (among other things, hiring a comedy director whose idea of horror was to skip the tension and build-up and go right for the gore)! 'Nuf said? I don't know the specifics of what destroyed 13th Child (producers? director? stars who should say lines and never write them?), but I can attest to the fact that Michael Maryk's original screenplay was nothing like what went onto celluloid. It was tight, coherent, and well paced. It conformed smartly with the essence of the Jersey Devil legend. I'm sorry that you won't get to see that version.
rbrb This movie gives the impression it was made by a child it is so bad. The story is nonsense, the acting amateur, the direction pathetic, the script atrocious, and quite frankly it merits a 1 out of 10 and that is being generous. Someone from the Attorney-Generals Office is sent to investigate a murder in woods where a devil is meant to reside blah blah blah..... We have sub plot upon ludicrous sub-plot with a failed effort to make the film look like something out of Blair Witch with bits of Alien, plus trashy gobbledegook thrown in..... total rubbish.
