No One Lives (2013)

18% of critics liked it
(17 reviews)
55% of users liked it
(694 ratings)

A ruthless criminal gang takes a young couple hostage and goes to ground in an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere. When the captive girl is killed, the tables are unexpectedly turned. The gang finds themselves outsmarted by an urbane and seasoned killer determined to ensure that no one lives.… More A ruthless criminal gang takes a young couple hostage and goes to ground in an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere. When the captive girl is killed, the tables are unexpectedly turned. The gang finds themselves outsmarted by an urbane and seasoned killer determined to ensure that no one lives. (c) Anchor Bay

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Directed By: Ryuhei Kitamura
Written By: David Cohen
Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Horror

In Theaters: May 10, 2013 Limited
Studio: Anchor Bay Films

Critic Reviews

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
There is no flair, no suspense, not one frame composed with more in mind than getting a Beavis-type to chortle, "Cool."
Tom Long, Detroit News
As bloodbaths go, this one has some interesting angles. Not THAT interesting, but ...
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
The expectations raised by the first 20 minutes ... make it all the more disappointing when incoherent slaughter replaces soul-chilling dread.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
"No One Lives" is a cheap horror prank that's ultimately not clever or accomplished enough to sustain its eccentricities, and they are very bloody eccentricities indeed.
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
There's so much darkness here, it's hard to see anything - literally. Forget the horror and mayhem. Someone needed to turn on the lights.
Chuck Wilson, Village Voice
Director Ryûhei Kitamura (The Midnight Meat Train) is too talented for material this retro-junky, but he and screenwriter David Cohen keep the action coming hard and fast ...
Kevin Jagernauth, The Playlist
Almost coming off like an academic blueprint of what a serial killer movie should look like, rather than anything with a distinct voice or authorial hand, No One Lives shocks by virtue of being completely uninteresting.
David Guzman, Film Journal International
Blood may be thicker than water, but it flows just as freely in this artistically bankrupt thriller.
Bill Gibron, PopMatters
(T)he filmmaker fashions an experience where nothing is what it seems, where the first 25 minutes or so see more twists and turns than in a dozen derivative fright flicks...
Drew Hunt, Slant Magazine
Ryuhei Kitamura's latest genre bloodbath is par for the course, in spite of the occasionally flourish of interesting subtext.
Brian Tallerico, HollywoodChicago.com
Starts off with enough grit and style that a good horror fan is likely to get their hopes up at the potential fun to come. And so the crash is even greater when that same horror fan realizes that "No One Lives" is going absolutely nowhere interesting.
Anton Bitel, Grolsch Film Works
a Stockholm syndrome romance whose bizarre erotic progress plays out in the idioms of bloody bondage and extreme interdependence.... but we never get a coherent account of who these characters are or why they behave as they do.
A.A. Dowd, AV Club
Most fatally, No One Lives neglects to provide a rooting interest. Great horror movies engender sympathy for the lambs being led to the slaughter.
Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
A novel twist, given away early. Otherwise, a generic bloodbath, decently acted but not frightening.
David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
No One Lives is never quite able to recapture the gloriousness of its opening half hour...
Brad Miska, Bloody Disgusting
'No One Lives' is generic "shock" cinema that was a result of 'Hostel,' which is why it feels like it sets horror back 10 years.

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Emily A

This one is special. As horror movies go, this one's got it all: great gore effects, a real curveball of a story and a wonderfully evil villain. He is the Man Death; he brings violence, butchery and pain to everything he touches, everywhere he goes and all those he meets. But I… More
This one is special. As horror movies go, this one's got it all: great gore effects, a real curveball of a story and a wonderfully evil villain. He is the Man Death; he brings violence, butchery and pain to everything he touches, everywhere he goes and all those he meets. But I defy you to spot him at the beginning of the film. The less I tell you about this film, the better. It starts with a couple in a car, having a series of rather frosty exchanges. The longer you watch, the clearer it becomes that the nature of thier relationship is more complex than meets the eye. Meanwhile, a small-time gang of murdering, burgling lowlives is coming off a botched job. And then they cross paths. And then a female survivor of a college-co-ed-massacre turns up again, and she knows, before anyone else does, who the greater evil is; who to really be afraid of. The Man Death is like a slightly warmer version of Anton Chighur from No Country; a truly fascinating character, but to tell you why would ruin some of the pleasure of this movie. See it. Even if not no other reason than to see Ryuhei Kitamura's ingenious, novel and jaw-dropping gore gags. See it before anyone ruins the big blockbuster effect. My only gripe about this movie is that the dialogue is a little uneven: it's kind of clunky in places, and delightfully apt in others. "You just killed the one person who had a soul."

No One Lives (2013)

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