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A Horrible Way to Die

2010
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 27m
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Avg Percentile 33.31% from 110 total ratings

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Rated 02 Dec 2016
20
22nd
Cam shakes, focuses in and out, pans to window to salt shaker back to character, zooms quickly, shakes some more. Watching this movie was a horrible way to die. Writing review from Hell on my iPhone, please excuse errors.
Rated 01 May 2018
30
18th
Uneven pacing and unduly jumbled story makes it nearly impossible to enjoy. Too much time was spent on pointless minutia. Most of the killings are nonsensical or an excuse to show something shocking. The wildly shaking camera was idiotic. The music gets quite annoying. There were many opportunity to make something good of this material, but the final result is considerably less than the sum of it's gory parts.
Rated 15 Nov 2011
58
26th
Liked the "nothing's-really-happening-but-in-a-really-authentic-way" kinda vibe of the movie. Then came the ending and really sucked, but still...
Rated 11 Apr 2012
63
46th
You know, I've been hoping someone would take up the mantle of Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer for a long time now. A Horrible Way To Die isn't quite that, in fact not nearly that, but it does share a certain intimate bleakness. It overreaches a bit in the end, trying to go for some sort of satire that hasn't been properly set up, but for the most part it's an effective, slow-paced psychothriller; intimately shot, cold light, worn-out sets and characters.
Rated 22 May 2012
58
48th
If you're coming into this from expensive and pretentious horror franchises like the Saw, it won't impress you. This is one of Mumblecore's forays into genre cinema, and it's a timid naturalistic indie film at heart. It's a decent film if you have the patience for low-key drama and can stomach a grisly image or two. Its most questionable feature is that it imagines even its murderous antagonists as the shy, introverted little white kids typical to Mumblecore. Ex-cons should be more hardened.
Rated 21 Oct 2011
15
21st
"As a horror movie that feels more like a mumblecore drama that a serial killer passes through, it's deaf to its own shifting tones." - Kalvin Henely
Rated 30 Oct 2011
73
65th
Grim, bleak and melancholic, "A Horrible Way to Die" is a well acted, well paced and suspenseful thriller that suffers from questionable cinematography and an irritating shooting style but to focus on anything but the well structured, believable characters would be to miss the point entirely. Did not see the twist coming at all.
Rated 29 Aug 2013
55
8th
Decent twist, nice acting and characterization, but the filmmakers do everything possible to alienate the audience before reaching that point. Not since Michel Gondry has anyone so actively tried to sink a film with camera "technique". I only watched this because of the positive word on the director's latest film "You're Next", but this one is best forgotten.
Rated 15 Oct 2015
10
1st
Terribly shot and terribly written. Though the twist at the end is creative, it fails to satisfy after the dull 75 minutes of boredom. I basically hate everything about this movie. I can't imagine how Adam Wingard and Simon Barret did so much wrong in one movie. Their future movies are much much better. I would recommend you watch "You're Next" instead of this. It is a horror masterpiece.
Rated 02 Aug 2013
75
53rd
I don't think that I've ever liked a serial killer this much. I enjoyed the end, which didn't really come out of the blue but was still pretty interesting. The cinematography can be irritating, but it's nice to see a bit of a break from typical slasher/horror movie formula.

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