Eight (2016) Online

Don't believe the review by one org1andrew, whose account's sole activity in almost two years is to review this film and then disappear. That's shill behavior. Someone who worked on the movie or knows the actors involved, writes an overtly glowing review as though this movie was directed by Hal Ashby or Robert Altman. What a joke.

Look the lead actor was okay. Considering the story sucked, the photography looked like a high school art project, she did a reasonable job at conveying the pathos involved. I hope this was some amateur high school production, because professional filmmakers would be loathe to have this sort of work on their resume.

The one glowing review screams sympathy vote. I don't understand why Aussie and Kiwi filmmakers continue to make dramatic crap when they should be doing what we supposed third world folk (I live in Thailand) manage to do here with almost no money.

Try making a fun movie that audiences will actually enjoy for a change. 3/10

I'm sure that some people might consider this art, but in terms of activity, it basically watching grass grow. It is true that this is exactly the way to portray the OCD person with additional issues, but that doesn't make it interesting.

We basically watch a woman's alarm go off endlessly, go to the bathroom, followed by an endless shower. Activity like this goes on for most of the movie. All of this is real time, no breaks.

BE WARY OF THE PRODUCERS OF THIS FILM THAT WILL STALK AND HARASS YOU IF YOU MARK THEIR FILMS HONESTLY.

This movie was slow, turgid, boring.

The filmmakers attempt to gain sympathy vote by making a film about some obscure form of mental illness. It's a pity their ability to dramatize it was poor compared to how they explained it at the Q&A.

The only thing interesting about this movie was that it was shot all in one take. But literally nothing happens. The people that made it need to quit making movies. They suck because this movie was boring as all hell. A decent looking lead character in a slow boring movie, does not a good movie make.

Avoid. Horrible boring. Pathetic. Amateurish.

Eight is a harrowing tale of the first 80 minutes of the morning in the life of a woman suffering from a debilitating comorbidity of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), agoraphobia and mysophobia. Sarah (played by the fantastic Libby Munro) takes excruciating measures to keep her house clean, and yet finds herself in her own self-made hell.

Peter Blackburn along with Munro deserve endless praise for this film. A description comparing it to Enter the Void with OCD sold it to me, and I was blown away. The depiction of this particular type of OCD is as realistic as ever, as confirmed by certain members in the audience in the post-screening Q and A with the director and Munro. For her part, Munro interviewed several people with OCD and did her research. It paid off: a tremendous achievement in acting.

Personally, I felt the film had traces of horror built into it, and really captured the horror of living in a debilitating state like that. Having volunteered at a crisis centre in the past, I have spoken to people in that state but this was the first time I really felt like I had a more encompassing perspective of just how much hell people can go through in their own homes. The film ends on a positive note, a tribute to the countless people who have experienced OCD in some form and have taken an immensely difficult step to learn how to manage it and recreate their life and self-worth.

I think it captures the life of a person with OCD, but it was a very hard to watch film. Not that I want films to be easy viewing / pleasant films but there is something about this film which made me very uncomfortable and almost gave me a headache..

This honestly made me cringe at times, more so than actual horror films. I could not believe how a movie with almost no speaking at all could keep me fully engaged. I have known a couple people with this condition, but nothing close to the extent of this. The Lead role was very well done and realistic. Knowing that this is a daily struggle for so many, it truly breaks my heart. This movie is definitely raw and hits you like a ton of bricks, knowing that our minds can be the biggest horror story of them all.

It was a wonderful movie how they made it and it showed the battles of everyday life living with OCD, Huge trigger warning on that one part she takes a shower. When I saw just that one part, Oh my Gosh, scary. So much scarier than watching a horror movie almost. I was horrified when that came on. So huge trigger warning to anyone who can relate to this shower scene. Words cannot express, I like legit almost vomited twice. This really shows how an OCD person strugglse because I felt it in my whole body. That part made me feel like I had a legit outter body experience.

Shwew. This was tough to watch. Wonderfully acted. I actually didn't realize until about halfway through that it wasn't a documentary. When something would happen to mess up her routine/ritual, I felt her frustration and, well, rage at having to start over again. I felt both awful for her and frustrated by her. I imagine if you or one of your loved ones does not have OCD, you don't otherwise have any background knowledge of OCD, or you're not particularly interested in OCD in general, you might not appreciate this film. But if you fall into one of those categories above, you will likely experience many emotions during it. I actually did have to fast forward one of the more physically painful to watch scenes. One small part did feel like a possible inconsistency -- when she picked up the mail delivery slip and brought it in to her kitchen (I believe she placed it on the fridge). I was very surprised by that, but of course, OCD often has its own rules, allowances, and inconsistencies.