Los Inocentes (2015) Online

I was not expecting much but wanted to see something from Argentina. Very quickly I became immersed in this world of isolated evil, control, abuse and powerlessness. It chills your bones. The characters are excellently portrayed, the evil ones with their own personal shade of evil and level of participation. The good are merely prey, without a way out. Lito Cruz who plays the patriarch is extraordinary. He adds such detail and stink to every interaction, truly a genius, you feel the other characters wanting desperately to escape his presence. It is one of the most efficient movies in showing what it's like to be in an evil set-up with rich detail and convincing scenes.

The Innocents follows a slave master as he sends his son to the city to receive treatment for his disability. When his son returns, new developments have occurred on the manor that may threaten both the characters and the fate of the property.

The story itself is reasonably interesting and well-presented. There are aspects that I thought were really cool, and while I wasn't at all surprised by most of them, they were interesting at least.

The characters are mostly well-written and developed, and they stay pretty consistent too. The acting is good enough to allow the characters to feel mostly realistic, with the exception of maybe some actors being a little below average.

Where this movie fails is in it's horror. It advertises itself as a horror simply because there are ghosts in it, which really didn't need to exist at any point save for the ending really. And even then, the ending wasn't a big enough deal to really change anyone's overall opinion of the film. While some horror elements proved to be somewhat unsettling, most were generic or just plain unscary.

Overall The Innocents is a decent movie. The story is good, the characters are good, but the horror aspect could have used some serious work. In the end I'd probably still recommend this movie.

This film is streaming on Netflix right now. It has an intriguing premise and cover art so I decided to check it out. One of the first things that The Innocents has going for it is beautiful cinematography. The lighting, scenery and wardrobe is very attractive. Visually this is very good work. The plantation and it's surrounding properties are authentic in every way. As far as casting goes the characters all look the part but some of their performances are sorely lacking in credibility. The language translation only furthers this problem since this is subtitled. The plot is familiar territory. Nothing new there but it's the script and dialogue that is truly uninspired. All in all this is okay. Not total garbage but not good either. Perhaps there could be a reimagining of this...

I was looking for foreign horror movies, and this is a great one! The Argentine plantation owner is the epitome of evil as a true 'master', and I really wanted to whip him as he does his slaves. This movie is streaming on Netflix, and is well worth watching for the history of slavery alone. It is not the modern 'horror', rather than the horror of a slave plantation and the horror of being a young child witnessing a father who is the horror master.

I have to say the movie would have been much better if one would cut out all the horror parts and make it a drama. It could have been metaphorical revenge without ghosts. The movie was much better in the beginning before the horror started entering it. The acting was great, good setting and story. Slavery was a horror in itself and it was well portrayed.

The ending though was weak. The ghost part was a bit like in the old horror movies and lacked real strength. I am not too sure why the master ended up the one surviving while his son and son't wife were killed by them. It seems like they missed the target for their revenge. But I guess they just wanted to show that he will have to live with the consequences. At the same time though was it really a punishment for him? He couldn't wait for his wife to die and didn't care about his son anyways. So how was this proper punishment? Just that the heir ended up being black?

One thing I absolutely didn't get was the importance of Manuel. He is referred through the movie and seems to be the only one the master cared about. But he died before the main actions happened. I assume it is his oldest son. But why did he matter? How did he die? If he didn't matter why was he even part of this movie? Too many questions.

This movie is very intriguing, and also very long at almost two hours. The drama that unfolds from the beginning is very well done, and the actors involved do an excellent job for the most part. There is a lot of tension, and give the nature of this film, a lot of moral questions raised .

Unfortunately, it goes on far too long with little to no payoff. The story fails to be cohesive, and characters fail to stay in their role. Most disappointing, the ending explains nothing and gives no sense of closure. After watching the film for so long, it really just made me go into the credits feeling super annoyed.

I just checked this film out on Netflix,I rated it a 1 only because 0 is not an option.the plot line awful,trying to re-captured days gone by awful..it is overall a shoddy job. I do understand that 90% of South/Latin America are years behind when it comes to race issues so maybe that would explain the insensitivity of the entire film, very disturbing to watch.....Eurrghhhhhhh.

what some of the reviewers seem not to understand, this isn't a horror movie where someone is going to run after you with a chainsaw or zombies will hobble/run behind you. The horror is in what the enslaved people went through and the curse that carries on. the horror is in the implications. The son's wife asks about the slaves and the son doesn't know. He assumes the slaves were sold. In a dinner conversation the father says there is a need to be ruthless. Later in a flashback scene we see the father get a gun while cursing the salves for the bad weather.... he heads for the door with the gun in his hand. We don't know exactly what he did, there is only the horror of the implication.... He went and shot the slaves because he assumed they were causing the bad weather. When in fact the curse on the land was because of the white family's actions...

It was Halloween and we wanted a horror movie. This is not a horror film despite being billed as such.But it is a wonderfully dark and morbid drama that implies rather than depicts horror. The characters are intensely real, whether the self absorbed "master" or the fearful slaves. There is a brooding undercurrent of evil and tension. The dark mood is enhanced by creative lighting and artistic camera work. It also is the antithesis of Hollywood film culture, achieving its dark impact by suggestion rather than depiction. Something a little different and perhaps not to everyone's taste. But I considered it a masterpiece of cinema art. And the ending... Well, I don't do spoilers and I sure wouldn't want to spoil this one.