Lack of good storyline.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

How come no one brought up the fact that the husband murdered someone in the basement! He grabs the girl outta the tub then tortures her in the basement. It's never brought up by anyone like we're all just gonna ignore the fact that it happened

Opening with a shocking sequence, treading an interesting path during the first act, taking an unexpected turn in the middle, dragging from that point onwards and finally drowning in its own mess by the time it nears its conclusion, Proxy may seem like a violent, unflinching, gore-filled horror but in actuality is a dull & bloated psychological horror filled with wooden characters.The story of Proxy follows two women. First is Esther, a pregnant young lady who loses her child after being brutally attacked by an unidentified person while on her way home. Her road to recovery begins when she joins a support group where she meets & befriends Melanie, who claims that her husband & child died in a road accident. Things head for worse when Esther discovers Melanie's secret.Co-written, co-produced & directed by Zach Parker, Proxy opens on such a promising note that watching it fall flat after a while was all the more frustrating. The downslide starts when the director decides to shift the focus from one character to another and once that happens, everything after it feels absurd & mundane. Parker also fails to provide a gripping plot or a set of characters worth caring for, and it runs way too long.There isn't much to talk about its technical aspects for it didn't improve the experience by any means. There are a numerous poor decisions made here as far as camera-work, editing or background score goes. A pivotal scene is turned into an off-putting moment by its slow- mo photography that overstays its welcome & looks unintentionally funny. Editing is virtually absent in the second half. And the background score fails to blend with the narrative.On an overall scale, Proxy is a highly mediocre horror film that falls utterly short of whatever it was aspiring to be, features weak plotting & questionable character motives, and doesn't even revel in extremity for the R-rated elements are heavily toned down after the gruesome opening act. Neither the cast nor their input stand out here although the actress who plays Esther Woodhouse was slowly getting the hang of her character and I'd have loved to see more of that instead of what Proxy had in store for me. An absolute waste of time!

I'm so critical of movies lately that it takes a lot to impress me (sadly), but I really dug this film. I thought the name, "Proxy," was odd. I would have called it something like, "A Bunch of Raging Lunatics." There's a whole lot of batsh*t crazy people in this film, but it made for a good story. And I wouldn't say it was totally predictable. At the half-way point I found myself thinking, "Interesting, I wonder where they're going to go from here." Some pretty good twists but nothing shoved down your throat. I feel like a lot of films "twist" just for the shock value. This story flowed naturally and it was all believable. There's even a scene that would have made Lars von Trier proud. Him and Chuck Palahniuk. I felt like he definitely could have created these characters.I would call it "Inside" meets "Gone Girl" meets "Red, White, & Blue." Which are all films that are right up my alley.

This is the thought, that came into my head, immediately after the film ended. Like "Martyrs", it was full of very bizarre characters, and just kept getting weirder and weirder. When I thought, "This character is totally and surprising weird", the next scene revealed , that another character, whom we'd already met, who seemed normal, was even weirder, than the first. It was almost blackly humorous, as it kept upping the ante of unexpected weirdness. This continued right until the end. So if you like a film, that surprises you, even though it's a little repulsive, you should like this one. So it has lots of weirdness and surprises , like "Martyrs". The reason I say, that it is more "grown up", is that unlike "Martyrs", the people here seem very unremarkable and realistic, like individuals, whom you could meet any day. However, down deep, they are just as twisted. Also it doesn't need "over-the-top" scenes with gallons of blood throughout, to make it creepy and shocking. I see the inclusion of constant gore, rather an obvious, adolescent, and unrealistic way to shock. Like a parade of bloody accident victims, I just find it rather sickening, but lacking in creativity and interest. You don't need a bulldozer to flatten a mole hill. Anyway, this film really impressed me with the way it showed the strangeness, that may lurk beneath the facade, of the seemingly-ordinary people, whom we meet every day.