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I wanted to but couldn't!

Best movie ever!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I consider myself a horror fan, and to be honest, the most horrific thing about this film are the ratings and reviews given by some other very enthusiastic viewers here. To me, it was dreadfully long, and dreadfully incoherent.Consider this example scenario, which gives you an idea of the yawn-inducing pace this film has:Girl in car in dark woods at night, with the body of a murdered psychologist in the backseat, herself cuddled up in the driver's seat, can't get out, crazy murderer's been doing stuff around the car to freak her out.Suddenly, a car horn is heard (other people are making out in another car nearby):*Honk*Girl's thoughts as communicated through facial expressions, "What's that?"*Honk, honk*"Was that a horn?"*Honk, honk, honk*"Better get up!"*Honk, honk*"No wait, I think I heard something!"*Hooonk*"Was that a horn?"*Honk, honk*"Oh my God, a car?!?"*Honk, honk, honk*"I think I better get up"*Honk, honk*Gets up, "Maybe there's someone else in the forest?"*Hoooonk*"What WAS that?"*Honk, honk*"Is that a car?"*Honk, honk*"What's that?"*Hoooonk*"Oh my God, I'm so scared!"*Honk, honk, honk*"Is that a car?"*Honk, honk*"What was THAT?!"Every scene in this empty, empty movie goes on and on like this with inane and mind-numbing repetitiveness. The main character, Penny, is constantly crying or sobbing and completely incapable of doing anything on her own. The character build-up is only exactly enough to support the extremely simple storyline, providing absolutely no insight to the inner workings of any of the characters, except perhaps that by the end of the movie we know that the murderer likes meat on a stick and Penny likes apples. To be honest, if it weren't for the name of the movie, I'd have no clue what the name of the main character was. There's only just about enough story material in this movie to sustain the music video for your typical, two-and-a-half minute Beatles track.To illustrate the incoherence and sloppiness in script writing, consider this stupendously dumb scene, in which a guy actually stumbles upon Penny inside the car stuck between two trees. He flashes a light inside the car, on Penny and the dead psychologist, now in the backseat, and Penny begs for his help in getting her out and escape the attacker that killed "Orianna", the psychologist in the backseat.The easily-could-be savior walks around in front of the car, flashing his light here and there, scratching his head, before returning to the side window stating that he can't help, the car's stuck, he'll need to get some help.Now, as admirable and important as being a law-abiding citizen may be, I think we would all agree that no judge would send a guy to jail for picking up a stone from the ground and bashing in a window on an old BMW to save a girl from a psychopath killer who's already done away with a lady in the backseat. But maybe the "savior" is simply retarded or deaf.In either case, when Penny responds to his surprising statement with, "No, please don't, he's gonna kill me!", the dumbfounded guy startled gasps, "What!? Who?". Well, my dear friend, perhaps the same guy that she told you about just 20 seconds ago, the guy who left the corpse that you examined with your flashlight — the lady in the back, remember? You know, she said, "Please, please, he's out there somewhere, you have to help me", and then you said, "Wh-who? Who's out here?", then she said, "The attacker, he killed Orianna", and then you turned around, startled, making sure he was not behind you. Remember that? Maybe that's the guy she's talking about now, 20 seconds later.The wonderful charisma of Mimi Rogers and the impressive acting of an ever- sobbing Rachel Miner, considering the terrible wreck of a script, are the only positive things about this marvelously crappy 1-and-a-half hour time stealer.

Caught this one for the new 99-cent rentals that Blockbuster is hosting. Well worth that, if that means anything."Penny Dreadful" follows a girl named Penny (go figure) that, along with her therapist Orianna (Mimi Rogers) has gone on a trek to cure Penny's fears about being in a car and driving. The duo has agreed to drive across unspecified area until Penny is cured. Things are going well until Orianna accidentally hits an eery hitchhiker. He's fine, so to compensate Orianna offers to drop him off at a nearby campsite. She does so, only to find it abandoned. They drop off the hitchhiker only to eventually find that he has skewered one of their tires...and so the claustrophobia for Penny begins.It started out great, with a cameo by Michael Berryman and Mimi Rogers and Rachel Miner (Penny) putting in great performances. As time passes and Penny is forced to face her fears, having to stay in the car for safety, the usual clichés are used startlingly well and I realized I was in for a good indie horror flick. The cinematography of the wooded campsite was fun, the acting and effects were interesting, and until the end I loved it. Spoilers next so go on if you wish, keeping in mind that "Penny Dreadful" was fantastic until the end.My God, the end...I hated it. A great piece of indie horror didn't deserve the (SPOILERS) "escaped mental patient" effect. The whole time I kept thinking "What an ending it would be if Penny was actually doing the whole thing to herself to combat her fears!" But no. I was severely disappointed, and as a result we go from a perfect ten to a six. Sorry Penny, drive safe.

Just so you know, I hate (1) movies where the white girl being chased falls down while running, (2) movies where the heroine/victim is a whiny, skittish, needy twerp, (3) movies where people do things you know they would NEVER DO, like two women picking up a male hitchhiker at night on a dark road. Just not gonna happen, bro.This movie was a waste of the talents and looks of Mimi Rogers. I liked the fact that some of my favorite B-movie faces (Mickey Jones, Michael Berryman)because at least they got a paycheck out of this waste of time. Other than that, it was a complete and irritating bore, spent mostly listening to Rachel Miner's character whine about something else. Or trying to break a car windshield with an umbrella (!). Jeez! I truly had a few moments when I hoped the protagonist would knock off Penny just to STOP HER WHINING., but then there wouldn't have been much of a movie. Wait, that's wrong: there wasn't much a movie anyway. Give Penny credit for one thing, though: she was stoned most of the movie on prescription pharmaceuticals. Maybe I should have tried that....

This is a good horror movie with good acting but the premise of the whole movie is absurd. Who in their right mind would pick up a stranger in the middle of the woods when it's dark. Even if I hit someone in the woods at night, I would not offer him / her a ride, especially since I can't their face and they don't talk. If this wasn't part of the storyline, I'd give this movie a higher rating...note sure why they wrote that into the script...writers must've scored some bad weed that night.From the way they ended the movie, it seems there may be a part two. Unless they get some good weed and write something good, I hope they don't.