Zombi Child
audience Reviews
, 54% Audience Score- Rating: 3.5 out of 5 starsUntil the end, Bonello mostly suppresses traditional horror elements while favoring a more intriguing slow burn approach. This does make the finale a bit jarring but that does not undermine the film's interrogations of history.
- Rating: 2.5 out of 5 starsStrange movie. It wasn't without a creative spark or some intrigue though. I felt bored for much of it before it got interesting. I appreciated the human emotional dynamic that felt real. It felt as though it was for a long time two different stories that didn't comprehensibly weave together until the end. It was barely worth the once over. I'm glad I only paid 1.99 to see it, but even that felt about 2x as much as it was worth to see.
- Rating: 3.5 out of 5 starsIt may not catch your attention right away, but it clearly has plenty to look out for.
- Rating: 3.5 out of 5 starsUntil the end, Bonello mostly suppresses traditional horror elements while favoring a more intriguing slow burn approach. This does make the finale a bit jarring but that does not undermine the film's interrogations of history.
- Rating: 3.5 out of 5 starsVisually beautiful. The story lost the main character, but I enjoyed watching a lot.
- Rating: 1.5 out of 5 starsHard to understand voodoo!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 starsNeither here nor there - didn’t really explore Haitian voodoo in full nor was it a true horror film.
- Rating: 1.5 out of 5 starsBoring and pretentious mixture of Peter Weir's Dead poets society and Picnic at Hanging Rock + Wes Craven's Serpent and the Rainbow.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 starsSaw this at NYFF57. A muddled mess of a film that doesn't know what it wants to be. As if Bonello just took two movies he wanted to make, couldn't decide, and smashed them together like child's play-dough, trying to make the two disparate parts into one franken-film whole. The worst and most utterly ridiculous parts occur during the teen-girl horror half of the film. If this were a film school project, he get's a grade of "D", C- at best, if only for the effort of trying.