Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Woodyanders Ace American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer (a solid and credible performance by Jason Behr) unwittingly unleashes an enraged and powerful spirit after he borrows an old tattoo instrument while delving into the ancient exotic world of Samoan tattoos. Sawyer must find a way to stop the spirit before it eventually kills his new girlfriend Sina (well played by the fetching Mia Blake).Director Peter Burger relates the absorbing story at a gradual pace, makes nice use of the flavorful New Zealand locations, grounds the fantastic premise in a plausible everyday reality, and puts a welcome and admirable emphasis on tension and spooky atmosphere over cheap scares and excessive graphic gore. The fresh and interesting script by Matthew Granger and Jonathan King not only offers a fascinating and illuminating exploration of Samoan culture and religious beliefs, but also provides an extra affecting element of pathos with the whole theme of shame. The capable acting by a sturdy cast holds this picture together: Robbie Magasiva as the leery and apprehensive Alipati, David Fone as the jolly, yet suspicious Mr. Va'a, Caroline Cheong as the spunky Victoria, Nathaniel Lees as the angry Mr. Perenese, Michael Hurst as the hearty Crash, and John Bach as the doomed Lazlo McFadden. Both Leon Narbey's glossy cinematography and the spare shuddery score by Peter Seholes are up to par. A refreshing and different fright film.

atinder The movie opens up with father helling at son (Jake) for getting a tattoo and then father then cut the tattoo of his Arm with a Knife.Then the movie fast forward to 20 or more years and we Jake who now has tattoos all over his body and has become A Tatooist.Then he find a other place that all do tattoos in different way as steals the stick and it cut himself with stick., then he start get have strange dreams and start seeing thing, they something killing the people he gave the tattoos too.This was a really interesting horror movie, When i first heard about this movie i thinking it something like The Denstist. I thinking The Tattooist was going to be killer. but it was total different.Which is a really good thing, there was really good acting in this movie from everyone in the movie., some of the deaths were really good , that one really creepy scenes which i can not not mention(I not going to much) The scenes hospital was really creepy and nasty as the same times, was great made scene.A really good horror movie, I give this movie 7 out of 10

Claudio Carvalho The American tattooist Jake Sawyer (Jason Behr) travels around the world researching tattoos and tattooing clients. While in Singapore, he steals a tool that belongs to the Samoan family of his acquaintance Sina (Mia Blake); however he has a problem with a client that expected that his tattoo could heal his sick son and Jake accidentally cuts his palm with the tool. Jake returns to New Zealand where he meets Sina again and has a cold reception from her family that knows that he has stolen their tool. They visit a Samoan family that has been living in shame since their missing son did not finish a traditional ritual with the tattoos. Sooner Jake finds that his recent clients are chased by a fiend that is somehow connected to the Samoan tool, and he discloses a dark secret in the Samoan community."The Tattooist" is a weird horror movie for those like me that are not used to the Samoan rituals and traditions, more specifically to the Traditional Samoan tattooing of the pe'a, body tattoo. I have found many articles about this subject in Google (for example, http://www.samoa.co.uk/tattoos.html) that helped me to understand the plot. Therefore, in my opinion, this movie fails for not providing a better clarification of the Samoan tattoo history. If the viewer clearly understands this matter, the horror makes sense and "The Tattooist" is an original movie of this genre. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "O Tatuador" ("The Tattoist")

bjt55 If you are like me, you use this site to Gage what to rent. I am shocked this movie got such a low rating (5.1 stars when I checked), in fact I almost didn't rent it because of that, I only picked this up because fangoria gave it a great review. My best advice is to watch the preview, and if you think it looks good then watch it. The preview is not misleading at all, and the movie has much more to offer. I was happily impressed with this movie. The Acting was great, the scenes were visually enticing, and even brought you into a different culture. The idea was truly refreshing and also pulled off very well. I have seen plenty of movies with great ideas, but it was too hard to pull off, which ruiend the movie. This however, was not one of them.Now with this review you are probably wondering why I didn't give more than 10 stars. That is because the first 45 minutes were slow, and at the time almost seemed irrelevant. Turns out (of course) they are not all irrelevant. There were just some funny things I noticed, like a guy comes into his shop and he just starts tattooing the guy without asking what he wanted. Overall this movie was great and I strongly recommend it to any true horror fan (that means if you like movies such as "The Titanic" and dislike horror films, don't rent this to give it a bad rating.) This movie will not have you at the edge of your seat, or give you nightmares, or make you jump, but it will make you realize that they still make great creative horror movies that are truly a treat to watch