America Latina

What a pity Shuddder resent their audience so much that they can't even be bothered adding a Google translation and English subtitles which might shed a drop of explanation to the otherwise confusing ending of this film. They do no one any justice after we've sat through what is a beautifully photographed, expertly acted, perfectly cast and beautfully set film in every other manner other than, because of this one failure on their part, its ability to adequately resolve one of two major plot points. ****WARNING-SPOILER*** These are whether or not Massimo's family or the girl in the basement were ever real. It occurred to me quite early on that the logiclal thing to do, even if one were suffering some type of amnesiac schizoid blackout, would be to immediately call the cops upon discovering a hostage tied up in your own basement. The simple fact that he chose not to was indicative of his immediate guilt or a suspected belief in the potential of his own guilt. After that, it was either her existence that was in question or his own sanity overall, as potentially responsible for fabricating whatever elements of reality we'd see revealed to us at the end. Thereby the most crowd upsetting elemental obscenity stands only as Shudder's wanton neglect by leaving the status of the girl's existence unexplained (especially when the makers of the film saw fit to add an explanatory voice over), Shudder couldn't be troubled with offering a translation of this, thus inspiring in many an undeserved sense of contempt for this film. Lazy Shudder, lazy.

It was good for the most part but it kept me guessing as to if it is one of those movies where if it's all just in the persons head or not. It was very slow and dry but for some reason I just wanted to see what was going to happen and it kept me interested. More like psychological horror but it could help to show us who exactly was responsible for the downstairs situation. Maybe I missed that but I still really found this one to be good.

the entire film is a dumb disaster that should not exist.

Incredibly boring and thinks it is a lot more artistic than it actually is. Nothing much happens. I don't mean it's slow-paced, I genuinely mean nothing really happens. Also, towards the end there is a very important voice-over speech that the subtitles just don't appear for, so if you were hoping for any kind of answers you're out of luck if you don't speak fluent Italian. I used a translator to figure out what was being said and it answered one question I'd been wondering about, but other questions are still left unanswered. A whole lot of nothing.

Absolute garbage. Turned it off not even half way.