Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

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

Cathex You've got two choices,1. Watch, The Shining, a classic horror with great acting, directing and inspired cinematography. Or, 2. You can watch, Altar, which is literally a rip-off of that movie which also manages to misunderstand everything that made that movie brilliant and combines that ignorance with bad acting, bad directing and a poor script.I would leave it there but unfortunately these reviews have to be ten lines minimum, so although I'm tempted to just write...'Ripping off a superior directors work makes Altar a dull movie' ...over and over again, I'll just add this;Some still shots of the Gothic English landscape in this movie are quite nice to look at, but nothing about this film, not even that, is original, and there was no point I can think of that would have justified spending the money to make this motion picture. The money would have been better spent on...well...anything else! So to conclude, before watching Altar, I highly recommend you 'Alter' your mind...eh?...see what I did there?

quincytheodore There's an inkling feeling when watching Altar that it's nearly identical with other horror movies. The isolated moor seems like the one in The Woman in Black, its haunting resembles The Shining or even Poltergeist at some point with the CG. It presents a few dreadful scenes only to lose its effectiveness as audience realizes the shoddy effect and unimaginative scare.A woman is hired to do restoration on an ancient site. She brought her family along and needless to say, the site has a troubled past. Between the eerie occurrence before and increasingly haunting presence, The plot follows a strict formulaic premise and it brings too many elements, it becomes burdensome at times. The most dubious bit is how this entity is presented.Altar wants to give many subplots of the horror came to be, but it's done in sloppy fashion. There are too many strange developments, especially with the possession gimmick. Acting and script can barely handle the weighty sporadic subjects, and it's just fumbling from one horror attempt to another.Its location is pretty nice, gloomy and practically screaming horror. It's already a good vista, but the movie spends too much on bantering. Not to mention it also takes some flaws from other horror movies like the clueless characters or overly cryptic sacrificial ritual. The worse is its use of CGI, what could have been a decent terror is decreased to silly overlapping images like scenes from old TV show.Altar scrounges many aspects from other movies of the genre, it's eventually overwhelmed by the cumbersome direction and doesn't even produce the same thrill it's inspired from.

Eliot Harper There is no movie like Altar some might say, but I don't entirely agree with them. First of all let me start with the best stuff that the movie has to offer. There is a good plot that ties everything together, thematic soundtracks, and a good cast. However I was slightly disappointed that at the start of the story things didn't really kick off like they should have. I just thought that the beginning of the story could have been a little more interesting, but other than that it was good. Maybe sometimes it's better to develop the story first and some of the characters or their environment for that matter before actually getting into the action of it all. The actions scenes were the very best so I have no complaints about this. There are only a couple more problems that I have with the film Altar that prevented me and other viewers from enjoying it as much as I could have I admit. The first one is the fact that a little too much is revealed about the house too soon in my opinion. On the other side of the coin I like how the filmmaker's foreshadow the story by using one of the main characters Meg Hamilton, who restores historic houses does this by saying, "I have a feeling this house is full of surprises."

Steven Hudson Altar is a symbol of sacrifice oftentimes for all the wrong reasons. And as viewers we all know just how wrong those things can go in a horror movie like Altar. Unfortunately as much as I loved the movie I actually have some bad things to say about it. First of it's just not scary enough in parts. It makes up for this though by being more frightful in other scenes in the movie. The movie startled me though with its clever music that sent shivers up my spine. I also liked the close-ups they used showing the ghost running nearer and nearer. What I love more than anything though is the mood that was created of an isolated mansion that destroys people's lives. There was an efficient amount of blood used which is great because I don't like very bloody movies myself. Even in a horror movie too much of anything is never good which is the reason why Altar succeeded. They were always balanced especially in cinematic violence.