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  Review by {Todd} ★★★ 1

  "The more you think about it the more you remember the parts that you like" - Holly,

  Jenette McCurdy is not transitioning well to adult acting.

  So. who do you root for between a creepy MRA incel guy and a psychopathic violent woman with some seriously bad habits? In Pet, Merry the Hobbitt is suffering from intense PTSD after the destruction of the one ring. While working as a janitor and stoolie in an animal shelter he kidnaps a hot woman he went to high school with so that he can have his way with her....or is it for another reason? Yeah it's for another reason, this isn't a rape film.

  At one point a barking dog sound is used…

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  Review by Ian West ★★ 3

  I remember hearing some buzz about this a few years back so I finally decided to give it a shot. Couldn’t really stay involved tbh—I think we were supposed to feel sympathy for the kidnapping lunatic? I didn’t. This movie looks way better than it has any right to be so kudos for that, but I couldn’t help but also feel like this movie thinks it’s way smarter than it is. Not my cup of tea.

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  Review by Lebowskidoo 🍿📽🍿🎬🍿 ★★★★ 2

  It's that timeless story: Boy likes girl, girl doesn't like boy, boy kidnaps girl and puts her in a cage in the basement of a dog shelter.

  This movie doesn't go where you might expect it to, which is why I liked it as much as I did. It raised my eyebrows, more than once, so that's good.

  Dominic Monaghan does manage to drop his Hobbit accent here and does a good job, but man, it's Ksenia Solo, as Holly, who owns this movie. Great performance!

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  Review by bree1981 ★★★★ 4

  Frightfest 2016 Film # 4

  I've tried to keep this review spoiler free but this is really the kind of movie where it's best going in knowing as little as possible.
  A dark psychological thriller with themes of loneliness and obsession, a film that toys with expectations and never goes down the expected route. Dominic Monaghan stars as Seth, socially awkward, he lives alone and spends his days talking to the dogs at the shelter where he works. On the bus journey home one night he spots Holly (Ksenia Solo), a girl he remembers from school, he tries to strike up a conversation with her but she isn't interested and soon smitten Seth becomes obsessed with her, stalking her online,…

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  Review by DirkH ★★½ 2

  Best Horror Films of 2016?

  I was loving this right up to the part where it falls in love with its ideas too much.

  There is a lot to like in the first two acts. Reminiscent of Fowler's wonderful book The Collector, it gives us a twisted look in the mind of a socially awkward, rather sociopathic man (a wonderful performance by Monaghan). As we see him slowly devolve and take actions that become increasingly disturbing, we get sucked into a story where we just don't know where it will go and just how disturbing it will get. You know that feeling of exciting dread only the best in the genre can conjure up.

  And then there's a twist. An…

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  Review by Rosie ★★

  Another mediocre thriller about abduction. A mild-manner lonesome man, Seth, played by Dominic Monaghan, who works at an animal shelter, bumps into Holly, a girl he knew back in school, but she doesn't remember him. Starting to slowly stalk her, he makes attempts to interact and even asks her out but she shuts him down. This leads him to kidnap her where he keeps her in a cage in an abandoned room underneath where he works. This movie delivers some twists. One really good one I didn't see coming. It should be a terrifying scenario but they fell short on building the tension, making this movie feel clunky. And the performance was at best only okay.

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  Review by robyn ★

  it's 2017 and we're still locking women half naked in cages and degrading them for entertainment. this one even goes as far as trying to justify it by trying to spin it into some sort of feminist piece. SORRY MY DUDES THE WOMAN ALREADY DID IT AND IT WAS GREAT

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  Review by Dawson Joyce ★★★½ 1

  A surprisingly solid effort from screenwriter Jeremy Slater of The Lazarus Effect and Fant4stic fame, Pet is a psychological horror thriller that toys with audience expectations and succeeds in turning a seemingly familiar stalker, kidnapping, and imprisonment plot on its head, with the help of two genuinely interesting main characters played perfectly by leads Dominic Monaghan and Ksenia Solo.

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  Review by Björn Broekman ★★★★½

  Pet is hard to describe without spoiling anything. It's the type of movie you best enter with as less knowledge about the plot as possible. So I'm keeping it short and without diving into specific plot details. This was way more clever and interesting than I thought it would be. With great acting, a well constructed plot and a lot of wicked psychological warfare as blackly funny as it is disturbing, this bizarre and brutal journey with convincing turns truly captivated me from start to its deranged ending. Slightly restrained, yet carefully built up, this was wildly effective.
  And although this outcome was beyond vicious, I couldn't help but smile thinking about the ironic madness that actually unfolded there.

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  Review by SeanRiggen ★

  Dumb. The twist was interesting for half a second, then it fell apart. He had the plan to follow and watch her, but no camera for proof if his plan fails? It’s a terrible plan to begin with, trust she wouldn’t lie to you and kill you once she’s freed? The stupidest part is when she threatens to kill herself with the knife if he doesn’t let her out. Then with a severed finger and no weapon, he sets her free with a knife, she uses to cut his throat (duh.) 🤦🏻‍♂️ F.T.M.🖕🏻🤬🖕🏻with a pile of pet turds.

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  Review by Cliff ★½ 1

  Sometimes you look back on the story that you've just watched, and you think: nope, even if the acting had been phenomenal, and the film had been made by the world's best director, and the music score was the most exciting ever composed, that would still have been a bunch of cack. So when - on top of an unrelatable, hole-filled, far-fetched plot about characters behaving in ways that no one ever would - you've got actors who barely commit to anything more than a half-whisper throughout, and never really emote, when the direction never accelerates above a tasteful second gear, and when the musical motifs sound like lullabies, then you've got a movie that nobody's going to remember a…

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  Review by jasmin 🌙 ★½

  Some pretty good twists that can't save this boooooring movie, yikes.