I can see where if your in the "right mood".......... like your a guy that just got dumped and screwed over by some woman so badly that he now has a permanent psychotic hatred for the fairer sex.....but you'd also have to be drunk on some cheap awful garbage and be holding a loaded gun .....not knowing if you want to use it on yourself or walk into a crowded movie theatre.
In that sort of mood for that sort of person, this film might even be a tonic. It is grotesque and overacted.....but it made me curious enough to look up the case it's based on, which apparently, according to a living victim.....was even uglier and crazier of the movie.
There are a zillion "True Story" cases put to film, And a near infinity of "horror" fictions.........The great book that produced the grand-daddy of true crime films (and books).....that in fact (except for the jarring sound track) is "In Cold Blood"....the remakes are wretched but the original is a classic I think and epitomizes how good a true crime movie can be.
There are plenty of more modern examples but I don't feel like second guessing other people's taste. And there many movies that are horrible...bad writing, lousy acting, crazy editing etc....that I really just like.........I just feel pretty strongly that there are lot of better ways to waste your time then this one
Review of The Afflicted
The Afflicted
(2011)
It took discipline to watch about half of this
30 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers