Silent Retreat Movie Download

7 / 10

Fun if slightly flawed creature feature
Sent to a retreat in the woods, a troubled woman is sent to a retreat
in the middle of the woods where she finds the owners are secretly
brainwashing women into being obedient wives and feeding the rejects to
a deranged creature nearby and tries to get away alive.

This one was quite an intriguing if really flawed creature feature.
Among the better qualities here is the way this one builds up the
really intriguing premise of the retreat out in the middle of the woods
run by the sinister family that enforces a strict series of rules on
them for their beneficial behavior. It’s rather interesting how it
manages to build this in the first half as there’s the rules in play
that simply make no sense yet creates an atmosphere here where it’s all
about ensuring the supposedly-perfect spawning ground for their secret
agenda which is one of the more dark and sinister motives here for
covering up their tracks, yet still manages to create the kind of fun
here wallowing in this chilling atmosphere with the silence, refusal to
acknowledge anyone and the general state of forced serenity created
makes this a quite chilling set-up. Once it gets to the later half and
there’s the fun of the creature thrown into the mix that not only makes
for a solid storyline addition as well as helping to aid in his mission
this one does become a lot more fun with the additional body-count
added to the creepiness displayed by the set-up as the first encounter
out in the woods rescuing her friend leads to the action-packed
massacre of the girls in the cabin as well as the aftermath of cleaning
up after it which makes for some even better fun throughout here. As
well, that leaves the ending confrontation quite thrilling as well with
plenty of fine encounters that are rather bloody and really kick this
one up somewhat. These here are what hold this one up over it’s few
minor flaws present. The main feature holding this one back is the
utterly bland and boring beginning half which is quite low on action as
it just tends to focus on the setup of the secret cult or her trying to
adapt to the rules of the place which are just utterly bland and really
keep the film pretty slow-going in this part of the film and keep the
creature off-screen during this time. While that occurs, it’s also
quite a relief since the creature here is a complete joke with many
really bad flaws about it, namely the awful look of the thing which is
clearly hampered by it’s low-budget nature but also the just weak
design as well since it looks really lame and has a weak prosthetic
look that doesn’t help it much even if that wasn’t the case. These here
really hold this one back.

Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language.Read More