Reminiscence (2014)

This must be one of the worst films I've seen in quite some time.Unfortunately the director seems to have done every job himself and I think that includes marketing as it looks (painfully obvious) that he's written most of the 'good' reviews on here! With lines like: 'I am happy that Reminiscence is not a kind of horror film that we usually watch. It is also very interesting that Reminiscence is first movie of Akçay Karaazmak and he made all by himself. Which actually is unbelievable. He wrote, directed, made the visual effects, did the editing, composed the music, even most of the shots are filmed by him.'It's a shame when you have to create fake accounts to write fake reviews about your own film. Reminiscence's got bad sound, terrible photography, acting, music, editing and script. Stay clear of this one as you will be wasting your time. Absolutely awful film.

Okay, so I watched this film based on the IMDb rating, (at this point, roughly 1300 votes giving a 7.2 rating). After watching maybe 30 seconds, I pressed pause in confusion. You know how when you watch a film, and it's immediately apparent that it's not as good as you thought it was going to be? This was definitely one of those occasions. So, I returned to IMDb to read the reviews. Having done that, one might conclude that it's one of those classic 'love it/hate it' scenarios - but then I noticed something that seemed a little odd to me. All of the positive reviews appeared to contain the same, or similar, English grammar/syntax errors. Of course, one would never convict on suspicion alone, my suspicion is however, that they're all written by the same person. Because of that, after years of using IMDb, I wanted to write a review. But wait, I thought, I should at least give the film a chance before coming on here to condemn it. So I started watching again.I'm proud to say I managed to watch a whole hour - even though I wanted to turn it off after the first five minute opening scene, and nothing that happened in the subsequent 55 min's did anything other than reinforce that urge. It's bad. It's really, really bad.The acting is awful. Though to be fair, a large part of this may be due to the actors maybe not having English as a first language? I'm just guessing. The storyline just.... well... there isn't one really; far as I can tell. Apparently there's some sort of planetary alignment, or such, that will affect the Earth's magnetic field and cause weird stuff to happen. Whoever made this film took that as licence to make the entire film, (well, the first hour at least) as unintelligible and disjointed as possible. The whole thing consists mostly of long, drawn out photographic type shots or sequences, culminating in something abstract, unexplained or just plain stupid - then jump to the next long, drawn out photographic type shot... etc... etc...And the music? As has already been suggested by other reviewers - it's incessant. Every single scene, or even sometimes just a change of shot, has its own piece of music. All of which is usually set too loud over the dialogue. And whilst sometimes, the music score and photography may complement each other, the fact it never lets up just serves to spoil the whole thing.All in all, I'm giving it 2/10. The only reason, despite the phony reviews, it doesn't get a one, is because every once in a while, there's some really nice photography. Also, whenever one of the 'monsters' appears, the makeup/special effects aren't too bad, and just for a split second you think it might be about to get interesting. Unfortunately not the case. If you're into 'artsy' type films, or you study photography, you may get something out of this - otherwise I'd say it's a fail and give it a miss.

Reminiscence ... poor name but a great movie. I will admit, though, I saw better horrors (not much) but never saw a movie like this which has drama,horror and sci-fi all together in it. Its a low-budget movie, not super acting but really, I loved this movie. I would highly recommend it to anyone that likes horror movies. The other cool thing about the movie its not taking place just in house or in a forest ... It has many different environments. From seasides to old towns, house, forest, fields. This is really cool, movie always keep the tension up and its full of surprises. It's not just typical horror movie, you should use your mind to solve things and understand whats going on. Script: 10/10 Visual Fx: 8/10 - very realistic and scary Acting: 7/10 Recording: 5 / 10 - I think the camera & hardware equipments are not so good. But it doesn't effect the movie quality at all.

How a low-budget movie can be so cool and unique. It has many great ideas, so scary scenes and forces you to think. OK the shooting quality is not so good but those ideas and how they used in the movie are just genius. And the soundtrack is amazing! Sound design could be better but its also very well matched with the actions. Movie didn't scared so many times but it made me surprised many many times. Sure there are also very scary scenes and especially the sick ones!! " ". Its a must for horror and sci-fi fans even there is not much scifi scenes but the story and how the things happens are quite sci-fi. Black holes, time-bends, etc.. I don't understand how some people wrote negative comments. Maybe Reminiscence is too much for their levels :) " "