Smashbomb

"There are three movies the witnessings of which have been the most traumatic in my moviegoing times. Viridiana was one, seen in a London cinema, maybe up between Hampstead and Highgate Tubes, in 1990 or so. Another was Straw Dogs (also available as a Criterion release). The third was The Elephant Man, one of the few movies to which I remember my mother taking me. A commonality in all three (the commonality from which I recoiled) is the cruelty of the mob, which remains one of my biggest fears. I put these two movies in this list because I can’t help but value what they did to me, what they allowed me to comprehend about my relationship to the crowd."

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Old (2021) in Movies

Jul 24, 2021

Old (2021)

2021 | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

6.1

(12 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Another slab of high-concept tosh from M Night Shyamalan. Tourists on a remote beach find themselves subject to accelerated ageing. Senescence is one of the universal fears so you'd think there'd be fruitful material here for a horror film, but Shyamalan struggles to find a way to make dying of old age visually interesting or exciting, resulting in a schlocky film without much structure to it. Not the first film by this director to resemble an extended Twilight Zone episode, and he tries hard to make the revelation as to what's really going on credible, but in the end this is a film which doesn't make a great deal of sense, isn't especially frightening, and doesn't feel like it has much point to it.