Let's make this clear, from the outset this is not a pleasant or enjoyable movie. It's about a supposedly bad (hates her adoptive parents, usual rage-against-life stuff) teenage girl meeting another teenage girl who turns out to be an out-of-control psychopath. On the surface the story shouldn't be terrible, it could work, it has worked. But not here, not for me anyway and I can understand people who give it a rating of 1 or 2. The characters are one-dimensional and ugly; there are no quiet moments explaining behavior or motives and absolutely zero relationship development. I didn't care what happened to any of these people and wanted to turn it off by the thirty minute mark. I hung in and watched the psychopath kill and attempt to kill numerous characters but found myself rolling my eyes too many times to count.
Dumb characters, dumb script. Silly, silly movie. To each their own and some people might like it.
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wedgwood5 March 2020
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kados-131 August 2020For those of you who like movies overall, and especially nordic family-psycho-dramas with a bit of nonsense on the side, slow buildups and quick twists at the end where the picture of normalcy deteriorates into total madness (eg. Borgman, The girl with the dragon tattoo, Ibsen books), I recommend it. It reminded me of those, and a bit of The winter guest (1997).
It has good cinematography and acting, and a decent mood and sound design. Eg. there was a scene, where the antagonist-turned protagonist wakes up, stumbles out to the kitchen, and a soundtrack totally fitting the apartment's mood plays in the background. You'd think it's just a movie background track as any other. Then she reaches for the radio on the counter and turns it off. xDDD
It's true though, that the characters and the plot aren't too deep, but they're at least decently executed. I was missing some background story of the characters, eg. the detective woman. PS: If you came for the lesbian scenes, well, there isn't much of that. I think the low score partly comes from that, as this is considered a slightly lgbtq+ themed movie, but I think it's not the focus of it at all.
TL;DR: Good scenes, sounds and actors. Plot would require a movie about twice this long to execute well. Very nordic, much dramatic. Some girl-on-girl action. Abrupt ending that leaves you without many details. -
timthornley-570435 June 2021Sure this movie is in many ways in line with an American made for TV movie. But this movie is different. Maybe it gave away it's secrets of who was bad and who was not a little too early but then that just made me hope that others in the movie found out as well. It kept my attention and entertained me well for a low grade movie. Worth the watch!
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Since I liked a lot of Samara Weaving's other stuff, I rented "Bad Girl".
The movie was kinda so-so, but the thing that killed it for me was Sara West's character, Amy, was genuinely unlikable. I really didn't feel any empathy or sympathy for her.
Part of the problem was there was no context to why anyone was the way they were. Worse, there was little explanation of the family unit, and you're trying to piece it together on top of figuring out the motives.
Why did they move? Because of a crazy house party? WHAT?!?! Why is mom so dead set on making this work? Why is dad so suspicious of Chloe's motives? Other than "rebel teen", what is the reason the main character is such a horrible person?
Then there was the attraction component that was all over the place. They could have made a real connection between the two, which would have made for a great realization/rejection moment, but again... nothing with meat to it.
Samara plays a good nutcase (well, she's adorable, too) so that kept me watching, but lack of depth to the story and the unlikable Amy killed it for me.
Was going to give it a 4 out of 10 but after typing this, I dropped it to 3.
If you're looking for Samara Weaving stuff, there's much better movies out there. If you're looking for an LGBTQ story, "Kiss me, Guido" is infinitely better than this. If you were looking for something barely mediocre that could have been decent, this is your movie. -
anthonyjlangford10 July 2020Bad Girl starts out as one thing and becomes something else. This is reminiscent, almost a homage, to the thriller flicks of the late eighties, early nineties, comparable to such films as The Hand the Rocks the Cradle, The Stepfather and most notably Fatal Attraction. While nowhere in that league, this film is quite serviceable by its conclusion. The standout elements are not the story, writing or direction, but the performances of the two leads, the girls. The father, however, is just awful. He's not directed very well either, which doesn't help. The other element that is noticeable throughout is the soundtrack. It wasn't until the credits that I saw the name of Warren Ellis. A brilliant musician and composer. The music is probably the highlight of the film. Subtle most of the time. The cinematography is quite solid also. Sadly the writing and directing let it down. The first half hour is slow, predictable, cheesy, unrealistic and annoying. It's a shame because you've already lost any sympathy for any of the characters by the time the story shifts into gear. They needed to have more depth, more rounded characterization for the audience to be drawn into their story. As it stands, it becomes something of a stock standard thriller, though quite well done. A missed opportunity and more of a showcase for the talents of its young leads. Mr Ellis has already proven himself many times over. Worth your time, sure, but go in with low expectations, persevere and you may just enjoy it for what it is.
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draftdubya30 August 2018I promise you won't miss a thing. In the last 15 minutes we get to see the dumbest family on Earth. They're afraid of a 17 y/o, 85lb girl with a 2 inch knife. Just grab a chair and whack her over the head. To top it all off after Chloe tries to kill Amy, kills her own mother, stabs the stepfather, Amy of all people kisses a dying Chloe. FIN This movie was beyond stupid. Showtime should be ashamed of themselves. I know the LGBTQ people praised this shiat fest, but come on, deep down you know this was crap.
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xxivspectre22 May 2020Pretty good movie. It had its ups and downs but overall its pretty good. Well, its better than all the horror/thriller remakes that hollywood's been putting out. Samara Weaving did a great job portraying her character , i really wished there were some backstory to her character but overall she did a great job.
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This film was awful. The plot was all over the place and the characters were all hideous, not enough information was given about any of them to feel any sympathy what so ever for the messes they got themselves into along the way. The ending was abrupt and didnt actually complete the story either. No explanation as to why the emergency services that were called just didn't show up either. Don't bother with this one, there are far better thrillers out there.
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martynamatosek2 August 2021I think I am the only person who got the point. That movie is not only about the teenagers, murders, the family but also about the EXISTENCE. The last words from Amy to Chloe were: YOU EXIST. And it was after Chloe had said "it's just not fair". This is the point. Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes we can't affect our lifes even if we really want to. Chloe was the tragic character who died because she could'nt deal with the reality, with her life.
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juwedy16 June 2020The movie seems all-over-the-place and forced in every way. Bad characterization, bad script, bad acting (except Samara Weaving).
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imdb-jeroen24 March 2017I saw this film at the 'Roze Filmdagen'; the Amsterdam LGBTQ film festival. To be honest, it wasn't my first choice. As a gay man I'd rather seen a gay men's story...
But I was positively surprised by the quality of this film. All the production-work, all of the art-direction and all the camera-work are just great. And I really enjoyed the acting of especially Samara Weaving and Sara West, the two main actors, who put down a very involving performance. I guess the story isn't spectacularly inventive, but within it's genre it's a nice piece of work that kept me in suspense during the whole movie. -
The_Stranger12322 September 2018I don't even know where to begin. This is THE WORST movie i have ever watched, bad acting, HORRIBLE directing, predictable and cheesy. This is on a whole other level of awfulness. I'd be embarrassed to have been in this movie. Certainly embarrassed if i was the director! I mean who gave this guy a camera and said " Go shoot this movie" lol omg wow . I can't "unwatch" this. -_-
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patrick_dn17 June 2020This kind of movie just strengthens the stereotype that mentally unstable persons become aggressive, and even murderous. But if someone is that unstable to think that another, completely unknown family could function as her own family -as is the case here-, she would have to be extremely delusional. In reality people with severe delusional traits will generally be unable to function properly. A lot of them have a tendency to implode when confronted with problems, rather than explode as seen in this movie. The best films generally have some kind of reference to reality, a bit of truth-telling. Otherwise it tends to go all over the place.
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freelance-6106214 August 2023This is one of those flicks you would not want to pay to see, but for free if you can't sleep one night and there are no commercial interruptions... maybe. Always hard to create horror comedy as this one clearly shows. Even so I was not kicking myself at the end for 1 1/2 hours totally wasted. Don't watch or refuse to watch because of an alleged "gay" angle. There is NO real angle to this, just somewhat tolerable entertainment. Mainly I just found myself enjoying Weaving, though there was nothing noteworthy about her character or performance. Is there anything great or even good in this entire endeavor? Not really, but I still found myself mildly entertained on a sleepless night at 3 am. Can't claim I was totally coherent, but not under the influence of anything other than natural grogginess.
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katzcrazy198426 July 2020A girl, who has been in trouble with the law, drugs and alcohol move to another small town in aus. She is teen who does not like the people raising her. Out of no where a girl comes into her life. She tries to make an already "Bad girl" even worse. The acting is not too bad, the story is fine and I really feel bad for the kids in this. The parents assume the worst from the get go and the mother never wavers. It has good cinematography but all in all the characters were not at all great. Worth a watch but dont expect the greatness of any Aussie classic
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jcarreonjc15 March 2021This movie lost the plot. It seem like the writers had a 100 different ideas for the climax for this film. The writers couldn't decide which idea to go with, so they decided to throw them all out there to see which one sticks. What happened was truly an insult to my intelligence. The last half of the film is stunningly stupid with all the characters making one monumental error after another. I basically thought that they all deserve what happens to them.
I do have to say that the first half of the film wasn't too bad. I did like the premise of the bad, party girl meeting her match with the psychotic girl turning up the trouble making ways to a whole another degree. It made me realize how innocent the party girl basically is and I was able to sympathize with her. That is a positive. I do think both girls in this film did a good job in their portrayals. This script was badly botched and not even decent acting from the two actresses could save this film. I will give this film a 3/10 rating. -
I'm totally shocked with this movie. Amazing plot and incredible performance from Samara Weaving(Chloe). The movie is a fantastic drama with powerful ending. I can't understant why it's not so popular. One of the best !!!