Highly Overrated But Still Good

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

I just checked this film out on Netflix,I rated it a 1 only because 0 is not an option.the plot line awful,trying to re-captured days gone by awful..it is overall a shoddy job. I do understand that 90% of South/Latin America are years behind when it comes to race issues so maybe that would explain the insensitivity of the entire film, very disturbing to watch.....Eurrghhhhhhh.

what some of the reviewers seem not to understand, this isn't a horror movie where someone is going to run after you with a chainsaw or zombies will hobble/run behind you. The horror is in what the enslaved people went through and the curse that carries on. the horror is in the implications. The son's wife asks about the slaves and the son doesn't know. He assumes the slaves were sold. In a dinner conversation the father says there is a need to be ruthless. Later in a flashback scene we see the father get a gun while cursing the salves for the bad weather.... he heads for the door with the gun in his hand. We don't know exactly what he did, there is only the horror of the implication.... He went and shot the slaves because he assumed they were causing the bad weather. When in fact the curse on the land was because of the white family's actions...

The Innocents follows a slave master as he sends his son to the city to receive treatment for his disability. When his son returns, new developments have occurred on the manor that may threaten both the characters and the fate of the property. The story itself is reasonably interesting and well-presented. There are aspects that I thought were really cool, and while I wasn't at all surprised by most of them, they were interesting at least. The characters are mostly well-written and developed, and they stay pretty consistent too. The acting is good enough to allow the characters to feel mostly realistic, with the exception of maybe some actors being a little below average. Where this movie fails is in it's horror. It advertises itself as a horror simply because there are ghosts in it, which really didn't need to exist at any point save for the ending really. And even then, the ending wasn't a big enough deal to really change anyone's overall opinion of the film. While some horror elements proved to be somewhat unsettling, most were generic or just plain unscary. Overall The Innocents is a decent movie. The story is good, the characters are good, but the horror aspect could have used some serious work. In the end I'd probably still recommend this movie.

I was not expecting much but wanted to see something from Argentina. Very quickly I became immersed in this world of isolated evil, control, abuse and powerlessness. It chills your bones. The characters are excellently portrayed, the evil ones with their own personal shade of evil and level of participation. The good are merely prey, without a way out. Lito Cruz who plays the patriarch is extraordinary. He adds such detail and stink to every interaction, truly a genius, you feel the other characters wanting desperately to escape his presence. It is one of the most efficient movies in showing what it's like to be in an evil set-up with rich detail and convincing scenes.