Zombi Child

The scenes and storyline from Haiti are truly beautiful. It seemed like the French schoolgirl plotline was warming up to something but did nothing with the characters it took the trouble to develop. The ending feels unfinished. I wouldn't reccomend it to anyone.

Until the end, Bonello mostly suppresses traditional horror elements while favoring a more intriguing slow burn approach. This does make the finale a bit jarring but that does not undermine the film's interrogations of history.

Strange movie. It wasn't without a creative spark or some intrigue though. I felt bored for much of it before it got interesting. I appreciated the human emotional dynamic that felt real. It felt as though it was for a long time two different stories that didn't comprehensibly weave together until the end. It was barely worth the once over. I'm glad I only paid 1.99 to see it, but even that felt about 2x as much as it was worth to see.

It may not catch your attention right away, but it clearly has plenty to look out for.

Until the end, Bonello mostly suppresses traditional horror elements while favoring a more intriguing slow burn approach. This does make the finale a bit jarring but that does not undermine the film's interrogations of history.

Visually beautiful. The story lost the main character, but I enjoyed watching a lot.

Hard to understand voodoo!

Neither here nor there - didn’t really explore Haitian voodoo in full nor was it a true horror film.

Boring and pretentious mixture of Peter Weir's Dead poets society and Picnic at Hanging Rock + Wes Craven's Serpent and the Rainbow.

Saw this at NYFF57. A muddled mess of a film that doesn't know what it wants to be. As if Bonello just took two movies he wanted to make, couldn't decide, and smashed them together like child's play-dough, trying to make the two disparate parts into one franken-film whole. The worst and most utterly ridiculous parts occur during the teen-girl horror half of the film. If this were a film school project, he get's a grade of "D", C- at best, if only for the effort of trying.