The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024)
Genre: Horror / Mystery
Duration: 104 minuten
Country:
New Zealand
Directed by: James Ashcroft
Stars: John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush and George Henare
IMDb score:
6,1 (11.215)
Releasedate: 19 September 2024
Reviews & comments
Pazmaster
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- 2790 messages
- 6025 votes
A surprisingly nice film with a nice story and a great cast. I especially thought Lithgow played very strong, he is perfect for this role. I do find the ending a bit easy, more could have been made of it in my opinion. Nevertheless an entertaining film.
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filmkul
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- 2601 messages
- 2323 votes
Nice psychological old age horror. The story is quite original but not very complicated. The execution is reasonably successful. After a short build-up, Lithgow starts to get into his role nicely. The tension is then slowly built up without the film becoming boring. The playing time is just right. It doesn't get bloody or scary, it is pure psychological horror. The acting is otherwise solid but not memorable. Fine in-between. 3.0/3.5
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De filosoof
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- 2544 messages
- 1743 votes
The idea of the film is quite good and I can therefore easily imagine why they chose this short story (by Owen Marshall) for film: a judge is admitted to a nursing home after a stroke, where the patients are terrorized by a fellow patient, which the judge naturally cannot allow, especially since the terrorizing elderly person has specifically targeted the judge because, as it turns out, when we are old, the tables can be turned and those who were successful and powerful (like the judge) become defenseless and weak (where shame can prevent them from calling for help) while the loser can experience a new youth because he can now call the shots and take revenge on his superiors. He also literally plays the senile old man who has become a child again so that the staff will not become suspicious while he plays the bully and even kills people.The film also refers to the current problem of (financial) abuse of the elderly and more generally to the horror of growing old.
I find the execution less strong: I think they intended to make it a true horror film, but the story lacks sufficient elements to qualify it as a horror film in the conventional sense. In any case, the film just doesn't seem to get exciting—despite the ominous music—and there are no unexpected twists. The erudite judge does, however, throw around some interesting lines, such as that without the lions, the hyenas rule, and Lithgow convincingly plays a creepy old man.
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