For this week's episode of Horror Movie Talk, we watched The Perfection on Netflix, and it is what I would consider goodbad. It had some nice visual flares, and definitely some unexpected twists. However, it's major failing is not committing to the underlying schlock of the plot.
* Skip to Intro - 00:30* Skip to Trailer - 7:00* Skip to Synopsis - 8:33* Skip to Review - 9:33* Skip to Score - 10:30* Skip to Spoilers - 20:00* Skip to Final Recommendations - 1:13:30* Skip to Taglines - 1:18:29* Skip to Kill Count- 1:21:50* Skip to Outro - 1:30:00
Synopsis for The Perfection
Netflix wants their own Get Out, so they hired Allison Williams from Get Out to star in The Perfection. Williams plays a former cello prodigy named Charlotte that was sidelined because she had to take care of her dying mother. When her mother dies, Charlotte calls up her former Dean at the prestigious Bachoff Academy of Music to try to re-enter the world of world class cellists.
https://youtu.be/q57D6kF5B1k
The Trailer for The Perfection, available for streaming on Netflix now.
Lizzie (left) and Charlotte (right) playing together.
She meets the latest prodigy, Lizzie played by Logan Browning and the become close very quickly...suspiciously quickly. When Charlotte and Lizzie take a trip to China, Lizzie becomes extremely sick, and Charlotte might have something to do with it!
The rest of the movie swings back and forth in time and perspective to eventually reveal Charlotte’s true motives and the audience may or may not experience whiplash.
The Nun was a pretty big 2018 hit - Here is our Review
https://www.horrormovietalk.com/2018/09/12/the-nun-review/
The Perfection is Not Quite My Tempo
The perfection is not a great movie, but to me it is on the precipice of greatness. I wish they had committed more to some of the more ridiculous and/or tasteless elements. Parts of this even reminded of my wistful favorite, The Human Centipede. Mainly the ridiculous reveals and the mustache twirling level villain. Stephen Weber does a great job of playing the pretentious dean of the Bachoff School of Music.
In an age where no one is surprised by Shyamalan-esque twists, instead of upping the ante on the world building or character development, writer/director Richard Shepard ups the ante on the number of twists!
Score for The Perfection
I’m giving it a 6/10
The Perfection is not without it’s charm, and it gets a B+ for effort, but overall it’s a pretty average flick.
The Perfection Movie Spoilers
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First of all, lets talk about the elephant in the room. The Trailer gives way too much information about the plot away. It basically undercuts the first half of the film, since you know Charlotte has nefarious motives for Lizzie from the beginning.
Not to worry though,
