Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Rainey Dawn I got this film in the 50-pack Drive-in Collection. I had forgotten all about this movie.. I popped it in and about 1/3 of the way into the film I remembered seeing this one a few years ago. WOW what a pleasant blast from the past. So glad they included this forgotten gem in the collection! Yes this film is good - it's my kind of a mystery-thriller. Although the film is not a horror film, it does get creepy - very creepy. Fans of classic horror movies should enjoy this film along with fans of mystery thrillers. Just an excellent film! The film does start slow... but it is worth it in the end. There is a reason for this seemingly slow start - it will make sense in the end.Great late night flick. One that you will not want to miss anything so have your drink and food ready! 9.5/10

Arlis Fuson After a drifter moves in the woods at an all male catholic school, things take a turn for the worse. Benjie is a teachers pet, but this drifter starts to make him realize that life has more to offer than rules and regulations. Another kid Arthur is keeping Benjies secrets about the fact hes always running away and hanging out with this drifter. After being told that in confession nothing said to the priest can be repeated Benjie starts taking advantage of that. He lies about sexual encounters with the drifter and later lies about killing the drifter playing a huge joke on the head priest. Soon the priest sees the true evil in this young man and the fact his sworn secrecy of the clothe is preventing him from acting on it is driving him insane. The more we learn, the more the twists unfold to find the sins of the father are stronger than his prayers.This was my second time watching this and I think it is truly a great movie. It was intense and shows how even the sweetest acting kiss up teachers pet can be evil and mean and it shows how an innocent nerd can sometimes be malicious as well. It has so many great characters in it and is just fun to watch.The direction was great and I love the music. This story was great and it had some great scenes some were extremely bloody and gory and worthy of any horror fan. The acting was great. Richard Burton played his part so well and the kids Dominic Guard as Benjie and Dai Bradley as Dyson were superb. I think Billy Connely and his funny Scotish charm stole the show though, this was his film debut too.great drama/ suspense with some great gore in a scene. I recommend it highly 6/10 stars

sol1218 (There are Spoilers) Very disturbing film about a Catholic boarding school that may very well offend some viewers in its depiction of the schools Latin teacher Father Goddard, Richard Burton. It's not what Father Goddard does but how he's manipulated and later drove to the brink of madness and suicide that's so disturbing. All this while Father Goddard is trying to help one of his students Benji Stanfield, Dominic Guard, who had gone astray from the schools teachings to the point of murder.Being looked upon as his best pupil Father Goddard has Benji set up, to all the students in his Latin class, as an example of what a good and intelligent young man should be. This has the nerdy and crippled Arthur Dyson, David Bradley, always try to hang out with Benji in order that some of his popularity with both the administrators and students in the school would rub off on himself. Benji tolerates the odd-ball Dyson up to a point but gets a bit turned off by his always, through no fault of his own, screwing things up for him in his fumbling and butterfingered ways.It's when Benji doing his morning run, which the lame legged Dyson couldn't participate in, runs into this easy rider type hippie Blakey, Billy Connolly, that he starts to change for the worst. Blakey putting ideas into Benji's head about drugs and sex, together with his hippie girlfriend Louella(Sharon Duce), that has Father Goodard put his foot down and forbid Benji never to see Blakey again. Benji trying to mend fences with Father Goodard asks him to receives his confession which the Father reluctantly does and gets all the steamy and unholy details of his relationships with both Blakey and Louella.Father Goddard not being able to really do anything since the things that Benji confessed to him are between him and Benji, and God, tries in a round about sort of way to get the young man back on the right track. Benji who was getting fed up with the restrictions of his Catholic faith, in how it keeps him from doing the things that he really wants to do, starts to play games with the concerned Father Goddard. Benji goes out and committing a number of horrendous acts that included the murder of his good friend Blakey, who was about to leave him. Confessing those acts, or crimes, to Father Goddard Benji knows full well that he couldn't tell the police or even have him expelled from the school.Playing Father Goddard for a fool Benji starts to enjoy his driving the very serious and strict man almost insane. Running to where Benji told him that he buried the murdered Blakely Father Goddard only finds out that the whole story about murdering him was a joke. Later Benji again confesses that this time around he really did in fact murder Balkey and when the now almost hysterical Father Goddard goes to the place where Benji told him that Blakey was buried he indeed finds the man dead and buried! The movie then takes a sudden U-turn when it comes out, with yet another confession on Benji's part, that the lame and dejected Dyson was also a victim of Benji's insanity. These revelations drives Father Goddard over the top which is exactly what Benji was planning to do to him right from the start. Bringing Father Goddard to the brink of condemning himself, in the Catholic tradition, to eternal damnation or, in the eyes of the law, a life behind bars in either a prison or mental institution.The movie has a very out of left field surprise ending where we see what was really behind all this manipulating of poor Father Goddards mind. This act of revenge and jealousy that went as far as driving the man to not only lose his faith and sanity but his life as well. Father Goddard demise came about by him innocently going along with those who were using him and his good will, in helping them, for their own sick selfish and ungodly purposes.

Billy Spears Not only is Absolution a hard movie to find, but it also very slow moving. The acting is great and the story is great, but the director could have tried something to liven it up. All script writing books will tell you to put the first action and get the ball rolling about ten to fifteen minutes into the film, whereas in the case of Absoution, you go about halfway through the movie and realize the plot started half an hour before.Absolution focuses on two students in a catholic school, one named Benji (Dominic Guard) and one Dyson (David Bradley). Benji is the golden boy of the school who is good at everything from sports to class, Dyson on the other hand is crippled and not too good at anything. When Father Goddard (Richard Burton) hears Benji's confession that he killed a homeless drifter named Blakey (Billy Connoly) then investigates only to find a buried scarecrow he doesn't take the next report of Blakey's murder very seriously, but this time discovers Blakey's corpse. When Goddard receives another confession that Benji has killed Dyson, he drives himself mad looking for the body until finally killing Benji, only to discover that Dyson, jealous of Benji's abilities and the favoritism shown to Dyson by Goddard, had been impersonating Benji in the confessions.also I believe that Richard Burton's performance was great but you can't overlook Billy Connoly who is a great comedian and great actor of any genre.