Vicious

A sly, sinister film about self-loathing, sacrifice, and the things people will do to survive—with a great tormented performance from Dakota Fanning at its center.

Bertino and Fanning make some wholly horrific magic together, and their diabolical efforts culminate in a wonderfully sinister parable that is nearly impossible to forget.

Bertino and Fanning are deeply committed to going to dark places, and they take us along for their freaky little ride. Whether it makes sense or not. (Probably not.)

There are more misses than connections in the third act, and for its title, it's never really vicious enough despite the blood and gore to come. Still, it'll keep you on your toes as it's cutting off someone else's.

It’s as if Bertino the director knows that Bertino the writer hasn’t done quite enough to engender audience interest in Polly’s plight so he seeks to pummel the audience into terror instead of drawing them in.

Bertino doesn’t need to give us another Strangers, and we certainly do not need anything else in that particular universe, but he needs to give us something more striking, and certainly stranger, than Vicious.

The movie devolves into something inexact and thoughtless, without anything distinct to recenter it. It’s hardly a sin for cruelty to be the point, especially in horror. But you have to at least land your punches.

Dakota Fanning, mulher perfeita!!! O roteiro simplesmente joga nas costas dela e fala: te vira! A caixa misteriosa é tudo pretexto pra sustos pra lá de clichês, com arremates que podem sugerir continuações, tudo num tom previs´vel e melancólico. É filme que navega no lugar comum sempre, mas salvo pelas boas atuações e locações.

I'm not a big fan of jumpscares, that's ground level of horror and a century old trick. And there are a few... The rest is ok, though a bit 'softcore'. Watchable still

"Vicious" is a very average horror film with more misses than connections in the third act, and for its title, it's never really vicious enough despite the blood and gore to come. Still, it'll keep you on your toes as it's cutting off someone else's.

The only two good things about this so called horror movie are Dakota Fanning's performance and its low budget.

I watched about 40 minutes of this... movie, if that's what you want to call it. A lot of needless gore revolving around a cursed box with all the tired tropes of what passes for paranormal horror now, it became unwatchable at the point I stopped watching. Blood and mutilation are not substitutes for a coherent plot! I'd suggest that modern script writers look to classic horror stories for inspiration, instead of trusting in their own imagination. WW Jacobs "The Monkey's Paw" would be a good place to start in the cursed items category. Be better!