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Purely Joyful Movie!

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is a pretty harsh movie to watch. It's about a totally deranged mother who abuses and batters all of her children in some religious mental haze, up to killing some of them. It's apparently based on true events and it's painful to see how many by-standers (a low-life preacher and a school-teacher) fail to see what is really happening and let the situation deteriorate right under their noses. It's also heart-breaking to see how the children cannot stand-up to their mother, all the time you think: come-on, give her a smack, push her away, but that's just how children are intimidated and are locked-up in this child-parent trap where going against your parent is a non-issue. They even stoop to being part in the abuse on each other, forced by their mother, just to win a little shred of her appreciation. The acting is fine, especially Leslie Easterbrook as the mother is doing a great job but the young girls are equally convincing. My only reservation concerns the "message" or the moral if you will, of this movie. It's pitch-dark and there is no happy ending, it leaves you totally depressed. As an account of a true story that's probably due to the raw facts, but you so much would have liked to see that it had ended differently.

THE AFFLICTED is an example of the 'misery lit' genre writ on film. It's an indie drama that follows a quartet of siblings as they're subjected to abuse by their religious, crazed mother. Aside from the presence of Jason star Kane Hodder in the cast, this has no horror content and is merely depressing. If you just like seeing people getting abused for the entire running time then you might just enjoy it; otherwise, if you're looking for proper plotting, character development, etc. then I'd recommend checking elsewhere.

Probley could have been made with a $100.00 and your phone camera. I seriously would not waste your time and money. Another "follow me around,shaky video tape me". (I can not call this a movie). film. The only half way decent part of this was the picture to advertise it. Really. So don't waste your time or money. It truly was not worth my gas to get there. Probley could have been made with a $100.00 and your phone camera. I seriously would not waste your time and money. Another "follow me around and shaky video tape me". (I can not call this a movie). film. The only half way decent part of this was the picture to advertise it. Really. So don't waste your time or money. It truly was not worth my gas to get there.

THE AFFLICTED, A Mother's Love Has It's Limits.Starring : Leslie Easterbrook and Kane Hodder.Pretty amazing film about a dysfunctional family to an extreme of violent proportions.The mother,Leslie Easterbrook, Is cruelly perfect in this role : Shades of 'Mommy Dearest & Jason's mom from Friday The 13th'.Kane Hodder has a wild role as the HELPLESS ? father/husband who is catalyst to plot.This film has such intense scary moments, It could be Brain Damage biggest release to date.This critic felt that the child characters could have changed their demise and yet When the brother did what he did,Oh We get it now….