Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

iampedromoreno I absolutely loved this movie. The visuals are stunning, director and actors are good, audio work is flawless, and the story is really interesting.In my opinion, what makes this a great horror piece is the incredible sense of loneliness the main characters manage to express so well, and the idea of how creepy and sad decadence can be for an isolated family.I've found the water scenes particularly haunting. People with deep water fear could have trouble watching.Only reason I don't give this a 10 is the plot failed to properly justify including the townsfolk in the story. There's also a pointless dream scene, but it's short.

rjones611 Just want to clear this out of the air. This film is not a masterpiece. I've read so many reviews saying it was. The acting in this film is unbearable. The storyline was "ok". Did it stay true to it's genre? I think so? I mean it wasn't scary whatsoever. The only thing I liked about this film was the tone. That wasn't even that great either.

eveland13 This film was interesting to say the least. The acting is good, Had a few creepy moments. I was really hoping for more of a story line, it left much to be desired in the end. All in all not great, but not bad either. Just a solid meh

Páiric O'Corráin The Lodgers: Gothic Irish Horror set in a decaying mansion in 1920. Twins Rachel (Charlotte Vega) and Edward (Bill Milner) live alone in this crumbling manor, their parents having committed suicide four years before. Strange entities also dwell in the house and force the twins to follow three rules: they have to be in bed by midnight, no stranger may be admitted to the house, if one of them flees then the life of the other is forfeit. Now they are eighteen and Rachel falls for Seán (Eugene Simon) who has just returned to the local village having lost a leg in WW1.Seán and Rachel are tormented by local yokels who resent his service in the British Army and her ascendency background. But Rachel and Edward are very much in reduced circumstances having to get food on credit from a local shop. A creepy solicitor (David Bradley) arrives and tells them that the house must be sold.The film is perhaps an allegory for the fall of British Rule in Ireland, the manor crumbling like the old institutions, the Anglo-Irish being lodgers but the locals also being lodgers in their own land which they still don't rule. The director (Brian O'Malley and screenwriter (David Turpin, a real life Goth) confirmed this in a Q&A session after the film screening. But in spite of any allegories it is very much a horror film. The twins parents drowned themselves in a lake as did their grandparents and generations before them to atone for some original sin. The question now is whether or not Rachel and Edward will escape the fate which seems to be predestined for them. Ghostly naked figures appear in the mansion, water seeps upwards through a trapdoor to the basement where the entities dwell.Some great scenes of terror as waterbound creatures drag people down and existential terror is expressed through shadows and filtered light in a forest. 8 /10.