Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

GL84 Emotionally crippled from a traumatic experience, a woman and her friends attempt to cure the incident leads them to inadvertently resurrect a vicious supernatural killer who begins killing them off one-by-one and must find the connection to them to stop his spree.Frankly this was a lot better than expected overall. One of the film's best strengths is the fact that this one really plays quite nicely in detailing the very real and somewhat plausible fear here that really could be possible and occur in the real world. Taking on the fear of water as it occurs here comes off as a very logical and realistic phobia that's well-played here with some far better scares than it really deserves as this one really plays with a common everyday occurrence only turning it into a more horrifying experience. That in turn gives this one some rather chilling scenes and encounters here with the initial accident forcing her fear upon her being a more than appropriate start to her fears, the encounter in the bathtub where they try to intervene on her behalf only to release the killer after them makes for quite a creepy and thrilling scene and the different encounters with her friends getting attacked and picked off one-by- one around her that this one gets plenty to like here with the abduction by the water faucet and the elevator ambush being particular highlights. As well, they give this one the setup needed to bring about the high-energy finale which is rather enjoyable as the different discoveries around his basement lair finding their floating corpses and the brawling needed to finally end him once and for all gives this one a rousing, chilling sequence that takes full advantage of not only the chilling setting but also featuring the nice action overall to give this a lot to like. Combined with the creepy look of the main killer who really looks quite chilling with the wetness of his body really combining well with the dreadlocks and the green, decomposing skin, there's quite a lot to really like here though it does have a couple of flaws present here. The film's biggest problem here is the fact that the killer might look creepy, but otherwise he's completely not threatening at all which is mainly due to him not really appearing here all that often. Though the film doesn't really have a slow pace at all, there's not all that many encounters with the killer to really get an idea of what he can do or what his powers are and they appear mainly to be simply just dragging people away through puddles of water. That alone is weak enough, but it also manages to be completely clueless about him or what he's after them for which manages to really make the mystery about him all the more obvious here with the utterly lame killing motivation once it's finally revealed to be the case which really makes for a really troubling killer. The other big flaw to this that really does tie into how lame the killer really is comes from the actual killing method, which consists of simply drowning people which is used throughout here and doesn't really deliver a shocking enough impression on the killer, and that all ties together into making him quite a lame villain. It's really the only thing that holds it back.Rated R: Graphic Language and Violence.

James Wright This film has a great concept; Freddy Krueger, but with water instead of dreams. It lends itself to a multitude of precarious situations and deaths, some of which are explored here. There is also a lot of potential to create a franchise similar to Final Destination since the Drownsman is always coming and you can never escape water.The problem this film has is that it possesses very little character. None of the cheesy 80s, to mid 90s, charm that Nightmare on Elm Street had, or the edgy style of the late 90s to early 2000s like in the first Final Destination. Instead we have a cast of five who are all supposed to be friends of some sort but we never see any chemistry or even really any dialogue that really explores this. Plus there is no attempt at humour, or shock or 'wow, that's awesome' moments so as to stick in your mind and draw you in deeper.Instead you get a film that takes itself far too seriously and ends up coming off as very dry because of it. With the potential to be franchised there is some life left in the character of the Drownsman, but in its current form it will never truly make waves.Overall this movie is a solid modern horror, but could have been so much more if it had some personality put into it.

MrGKB for some wet-behind-the-ears actors and production crew, if you ask me, and that's about it. With higher caliber talent and some serious script-doctoring, this might--and I can only emphasize, might--have transcended its straight-to-video-purgatory nature, but alas! Blub, blub, blub! We're sailing the high seas of Sturgeon's Revelation here. A watery grave is all this leaky vessel riddled with plot holes can ever hope to achieve. Mercifully, the DVD has nary a featurette, promo or otherwise, and that's likely a very good thing; I'd really hate to watch these kids drown in self-effacing explanations for taking a paying gig. At least, I hope they got paid. They did, right? Right?

Flow Let me start by saying: how on Earth can this movie be only 4.3 on IMDb?!? Seriously, it's a lot better and I do mean, a lot!We have movies like Ouija, like The Unborn and so on, that are in my opinion, weak productions, yet they manage to get so much attention, even develop a small fan club. Then we get the better ones, that go completely unnoticed, and I fear, The Drownsman might not be on so many lips as the previous ones I just mentioned. So here I stand, trying to make this little horror more popular, cause it does deserve a wider audience. The cover did trick me into believing that I'm up for another low budget film, but as it started, with the occasional clichés here and there, The Drownsman is quite the nice surprise, far better than say, We Are Still Here. I think around 15 minutes it's all it takes for it to get your attention, after that, you'll enjoy the ride.Therefore, give this one a try and maybe even recommend it to a friend who is into horror. Let's face it, you can do a lot worse than this one!Cheers!