Diagonaldi Very well executed

Ploydsge just watch it!

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Michael Ledo The film starts out with an incident at a mental hospital and then changes. The hospital has been converted into a retreat where a company is holding a getaway to brainstorm increased production. The cast of politically incorrect characters and comments made the film interesting. Teddy (Eli Bildner) and Lira (Devon Ogden) are polar opposites who annoy everyone. Rita (Trista Robinson) has a high squeaky voice and loves Jesus.The connection of the past to the present was not as clever as the writers thought and the climax ruined a great cast of characters. I give credit to the director and cast, but the plot wasn't exciting.Guide: F-bomb, sex, distant nudity ( Devon Ogden?)

TheLittleSongbird Saw 'Silent Retreat' being fond of horror/thriller regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre), and the cover was cool. Was less taken by the concept though, which sounded ridiculous. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to watching and reviewing.Unfortunately, do have to agree with the low rating and the poor reviews. 'Silent Retreat' is one of those films that never took off, starting off not very interestingly and never recovered and progressively got worse, particularly in the near-unwatchable later stages. Never judge a film without seeing the whole thing and wanted to not make 'Silent Retreat' an exception, so gave it a fair chance. The location is also suitably spooky. However, so much brings 'Silent Retreat' down. All the acting is either over-histrionic or disinterested, both in a few cases, and the direction is so phoned in and pedestrian, one gets the sense that the director showed no interest in the film at all. Too much of the soundtrack is intrusive and annoying, made worse by the excessive and obvious sound effects that just cheapens the mood. The film looks drab generally and like it was made in haste, the photography especially betrays that with its amateurishness.Where 'Silent Retreat' most underwhelms is the writing and story. The writing is incredibly lazy, it's awkward in dialogue, is gratuitously crude, confused because of not tying things up or going into full detail and doesn't feel complete. The story suffers from a very limp pace, apparent early on and gets slower and slower until an interminably dragged out and ridiculous second half. It further suffers from feeling too much like a short film stretched out with a lot of useless padding. The stereotypical characters are as unlikeable as they come, the inconsistent and illogical motivations bring them down further. For a film billed as a horror, there is very little interesting and nothing remotely scary which makes a waste of such a spooky-looking location. The scares and thrills are too few, barely any even, and are far too predictable, anaemic and weakly timed to make impact, with the dull pacing and obvious sound editing cheapening them significantly. 'Silent Retreat' doesn't engage let alone thrill, the more it progressed the duller, predictable and more nonsensical it became for a premise that was already ridiculous. The ending leaves very little impact, very contrived and not much of one at all.In summary, very poor on the whole. 1/10 Bethany Cox

fearlesshs Watched this movie but was never sure how they want to pursue horror... I mean seriously? Movie builds some confidence while showing plot connections with mental hospital and the business trip people in the first few minutes but then I was just eagerly waiting for a horror pop-up when in between they just wanted to make it sensually interesting! Woah? Dude falling off the stairs dies without blood or bruises? OK then they tried covering up for that by surprise human hunt for what I'm still wondering... Not even good use of camera tricks for horrifying but then confusingly clarifying the fuss made up till the end... No boy, competition for horror is far ahead than what you thinking! Stars can be for acting, least to be said

Lugodoc Just watched this. Holy Cow.It tries really hard but neither the writer, director nor actors have ever seen how humans behave. It might have been written by a top secret corporate A.I. as part of a Turing test but it sure wasn't written by a human who had seen how other humans talk and act. That might explain the writing but the acting and direction still lack explanation.The actual plot mechanics are pretty good and the story does actually make sense, for what it is. The lighting and photography are excellent. Other than that it's a bit like watching that Dennis Potter play where adult actors read lines written for eight-year-old children, except that here the mental age looks like nearer to eleven.I have this theory that every film, no matter how bad it is, will always have at least one moment that is startling, that makes you raise your eyebrows, something that you haven't seen before and that you suddenly respect because it is new in an industry ripe with plagiarism and repetition. This film has one such moment. Can you guess which it is?