Silent retreat is a 20 canadian horror movie about a young woman who is sent to an isolated clinic where no talking is allowed, only to discover a conspiracy involving hypnosis, brainwashing, and a bloodthirsty monster. Italy as eat, pray, love opens, it is the middle of november and elizabeth gilbert is in rome. The film uses a remarkably similar plot to dead calm but unlike that superior movie youre. Take away its love with session 9 and nonchronological editing, and youve got a pretty routine pseudoslasher. It stars radha mitchell, sean bean, laurie holden, deborah kara unger, kim coates, tanya allen, alice krige, and jodelle ferland. The retreat is themed to be either for a solo experience or for couples. Minimalist and not even unique as a meditation more on the intensity on shaky human. Jun 12, 2014 a silent retreat for female felons in the canadian woods becomes the setting for a horror with silent retreat.
Aside from nolan, performances lean toward the uneven, while unanswered questions and frayed threads of plot nag. And then the retreat participants start unaccountably disappearing. A group of hardpartying soldiers are tasked with saving mankind after a zombie apocalypse grips the globe. Silent retreat 20 janey chelsea jenish goes to a meditation retreat and realizes the men running the facility are brainwashing women. So, in a way, its like a stepford wives mixed with a horror movie. The 7day silent meditation retreat on the island amantani in the middle of lake titicaca is engineered to be a great experience both for beginners and experienced practitioners. Well, the answer to that would have to be both yes and no. Beck and woods had begun developing a story that would lead into the film at college. I watched this with four other people and after it was done i was the only one that understood or realized the jump cut scenes were supposed to be flashbacks either from years ago or twenty minutes earlier in the film. Shot in a beautiful location on big bear lake in california, silent retreat follows a group of media employees who head into the woods for a weekend retreat. The human race 20, silent retreat 2016 stumbles upon the brothers and is immediately drawn to their operation. Silent retreat was a decent little indie horror film. London architect martin kennedy cillian murphy and his miserable journalist wife kate thandie newton often visit a small, remote, uninhabited island off the west coast of scotland called blackholme island for their holiday retreats. Two of them are told they are survivors of a fatal airborne disease that is sweeping over the entire world.
When one of the members goes missing, they discover that the lodge was formerly a private mental institution that had been. It looks like we dont have any plot summaries for this title yet. Dec 03, 2014 silent retreat 2016 movie trailer please subscribe to. Directed by tricia lee and written by corey brown, silent retreat is the story of janey chelsea jenish. March 18th, 2016 not yet rated 1 hr 33 min plot summary. Silent retreat is a major win for me, and i highly recommend it. When one of the members goes missing, they discover that the lodge was formerly a private mental institution that had been shut down after allegations of devious misconduct. Silent retreat 2016 devon ogden thriller horror movie full. Six members of a media company go on a weekend business retreat at an isolated lodge. In the sloppy hands of writer director ace jordan, silent retreat is a heavily boring and very slow moving film that takes forever to get going as the horrific stuff happens in the last 30 minutes,all of which is as unexciting and very unsuspenseful with the casts stale performances being as lackluster as their. Whether you study the teachings of the bible or you work independently to go deeper in your spiritual practice, a silent spiritual retreat can be lifechanging. Released on january 12, 2016, silent retreat is a quality independent film that proves that distributor midnight releasing is good at providing unique horror movies with great vision.
Together, they must fight their way across the country in order to find a cure for the outbreak and restore freedom before its too late. Before all of the extroverts quit reading because i used the words retreat and silence, relax and keep reading because i, myself, am an extrovert. Donny boaz, rebecca summers, danilo di julio, landon ashworth, devon ogden, ace jordan. Jan 12, 2016 database of movie trailers, clips and other videos for silent retreat 2016. Creatuers stalk the woods around a rehabilitation retreat where patients are told to remain silent.
Silent retreat was released in early 2016 and barely made a whimper among audiences. Sinopsis summary plot resensi ringkasan cerita reviu. Silent retreat is a trope filled horror flick that isnt all bad but isnt all good either. Silent retreat 2014 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Silent retreat has some good things going for it, but it suffers from extended stretches of downtime that couldnt stimulate the simplest of minds. A neardeath experience leaves a teenage girl with a connection to malevolent spirits.
Silent retreat 2016 nude scenes plot diagram summary book 1. Nov 23, 2016 such is the plot of silence, martin scorseses upcoming adaptation of the eponymous 1963 novel by shusaku endo. Newton are about to find that their island retreat is about to become a prison of unimaginable terror. Winner best canadian feature toronto after dark film festival official selection for competition nocturna madrid international fantastic. Martin scorseses silence looks like a brutal, holy journey. Jul 18, 2011 how to plan a retreat of silence one of my favorite things to do during the summer, besides lie by the pool, is to go on a retreat of silence ros. Its only surprises lay in what information it tells you and when, because laid out in a. Silent retreat 2016 film festival demo teaser thriller horror movie. Zacry stabard donny boaz is your average, albeit a little better than average looking, media employee. Silent retreat 20 tt2672180 janey arrives at a silent retreat in the middle of the woods for rehabilitation, only to discover that the men who run it arent afraid to show her what lurks beyond the trees. When one of the members goes missing, they discover that the lodge was formerly a private mental institution.
People who are ripping this movie must have some kind of agenda. Silence is a great way to create space in mind, to reduce stress, gain clarity. Retreat premiered at the fantasia film festival on 18 july 2011, and received a limited release in the united kingdom and the united states respectively on 14 and 21 october 2011. If i am to be honest, i have seen worse films than silent retreat. Plot summary edit janey jenish is a troubled young woman who is sentenced by a court to attend an experimental and isolated silent retreat clinic for women. Martin scorseses silence looks like a brutal, holy.
Jan 14, 2016 silent retreat is directed by ace jordan, written by jordan and heather smith, produced by starko entertainment, and was released to vod and dvd on january 12, 2016. Six members of a media company go on a weekend business retreat at an. Chocked full of dark humor and intense thrills, this is one for every horrorthriller fan out there. They soon discover that the lodge theyre staying in was, not too long ago, a psychiatric hospital. Arrested for assault, a young woman named janey chelsea jenish is sent to a silent meditation retreat in the middle of the woods for rehabilitation. In this horror film, janey is sent to a silent retreat in the middle of the woods for.
Silent retreat 2016 movie trailer please subscribe to. The highs would definitely have to be the fact that the movie takes place at this meditation retreat, where troubled women are sent to in to be rehabilitated from crimes they may have committed. Silent retreat is directed by ace jordan, written by jordan and heather smith, produced by starko entertainment, and was released to vod and dvd on january 12, 2016. Janey jenish is a troubled young woman who is sentenced by a court to attend an experimental and isolated. Just click the edit page button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the plot summary submission guide.
There, she is stripped of any belongings that make her what she is photos, books etc and brought before the. Janey is sent to a silent meditation retreat, in the woods, for rehabilitation, only to realize that the men who. The film stars chelsea jenish, sofia banzhof, and robert nolan. Mar 20, 2018 silent retreat 2016 devon ogden thriller horror movie full. Silent retreat 2016 follows a group of coworkers who go away to an isolated lodge in the woods for a weekend work and team building retreat. It is not so stoopit it seemed average for a lowbudget horror film to me. What was that movie where all the old actors from old action movies get together in a single film and blow up lots of stuff. Shortly after arriving, one of the team members goes missing and the others soon learn that the lodge used to be a private mental institution.
In july 2016, krasinski read their spec script and was hired to direct and. The film is an adaptation of konamis 1999 video game silent hill. Whether you book with a jesuit retreat house or an ignatian spirituality center, you can do the work on your own silent spiritual retreat. Silent hill is a 2006 psychological horror film directed by christophe gans and written by roger avary, gans, and nicolas boukhrief. Another microflick comes rolling, and the only true question surrounding the picture is, can it exceed expectations and prove more spirited than your typical shoestring affair. This film was the semifinalist for best original screenplay at screamfest horror film festival in 2009 and was nominated for best original trailer at the shockfest film festival in 2014. Laut hbo wurde dieser film im jahre 2016 freigegeben. Directed by ace jordan, the film features a cast that includes donny boaz, rebecca pitkin, danilo di julio and landon ashworth. At no point the movie portrays a functional team, let alone actual coworkers. Six members of a media company go on a weekend business retreat at an isolated lodge in the woods. This film was the semifinalist for best original screenplay at screamfest horror film festival in 2009 and was nominated for best. One by one, they fall victim to the dark secrets buried at the lodge.