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  Review by HorrorSage ★★★★ 2

  Good evening and welcome fellow Children of Chaos.

  Chock this up in the camp of horror that is not scary, just sad.

  So this woman and her husband are doing this thing where they set up orphanages in poorer Asian countries, and in a video the wife thinks she sees her kid that died in a storm not long ago.

  So we go on a quest to find said kid while some Triad dudes take them for a ride. Then they end up on this Lord of the Lies type island.

  It's one of those movies that shifts constantly. It shifts on ghost movies, it sometimes goes into a detective style film, and has some survivalist elements as well.

  And…

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★ 7

  This was not the film I expected it to be at all.

  Foreshadowing is a powerful thing in a story. Usually horror films overload on this, resulting in annoyingly predictable affairs. This film is no ordinary horror film, though. It may not even be a horror film at all. And it understands the rules of foreshadowing very well.

  From the very first scene Du Welz's film invokes the feeling that dire things will happen. We are expected to immediately make an emotional investment in the two main characters. This is a risky choice, which made me raise my eyebrows a couple of times in the first twenty minutes of the film as I did not really feel enough emotional involvement…

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  Review by Remobo ★★★ 1

  A movie about lost souls and the hopelessness and isolation that awaits if they refuse to get themselves found, again.

  Every human is a little schizophrenic, as we often find ourselves trying to choose between the messages that are coming from our heads and the impulses that come from our hearts. The two rarely agree, or even compromise, especially when we need them the most. But, if presented with a possible opportunity to re-find something, that took a piece of you with it when it was lost, where would you draw the line? When do you finally say "enough is enough", and will you even have the strength to say it when the time comes? Will you even know when…

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  Review by Jason Alley🏳️‍🌈🐻 ★★★★ 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by Aubra_ ★★★½

  In Vinyan, we meet a mother and father who have lost their son in a tsunami. When the wife believes she has seen her son in a video, the couple hire some very sketchy guys to take them out into the jungles to look for him. 

  This is a pretty mean psychological horror that takes a look at how grief impacts one’s perception and behavior. Some parts were creepy, but a huge part of why this works is the juxtaposition of the viewer both being sympathetic toward and frustrated by the characters’ actions. 

  This is another one I’m really surprised has so few views on here. The last scene felt very ick to me (and kind of sunk my rating) for reasons completely unrelated to the plot, but other than that, I thought it was good.

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  Review by Viewtiful Celik 🎞️ ★★★½

  Es passiert selten aber es passiert! Hier bin ich mir selber nicht mehr wirklich sicher ihn damals gesehen und bis heute vergessen zu haben? Zum Glück jetzt erlebt und sehr starke Atmosphäre in Kombination der Bilder!

  Sechs Monate nachdem ihr einziges Kind während der Tsunami-Katastrophe in Thailand verschwand, glaubt Jeanne, den tot geglaubten Sohn in einem Video über obdachlose Kinder in Burma wieder zu erkennen. Gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann begibt sie sich auf eine Reise fernab der Zivilisation und landet inmitten eines heimtückischen Dschungels, der von verwilderten Kindern bewohnt wird, die keine Eindringlinge dulden. (Quelle: Google)

  Fabrice Du Welz (Regie) hat hier einen düsteren Fiebertraum kreiert, voller kryptischer Bilder in einem eigenartigem Color Grading und der Körnung aus der Hölle.…

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  Review by Daria Dykes ★★★★

  Since I have never heard anybody mention this film or recommend it, I'm going to tentatively say that this is one of the most underrated movies I've ever seen.

  Intense and grueling, it points an accusatory finger right at its privileged audience. We all remember the tsunami, and waiting breathlessly on updates of the devastating reports about how many tourists from each country were thought to be lost. Well, fuck all of us.

  It loses a whole half a star for Emmanuelle Béart's absolutely ridiculous hyper-collagened fish lips. The director should have the self-respect to fire an actress who shows up looking like a walking joke.

  Go watch this beautiful film. It beats Calvaire.

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  Review by cupofcoffinjoe ★★★★½ 4

  You won't find many movies more bleak than this. The beautiful locations and excellent cinematography don't obscure a constant, oppressive dread. I went in blind. It kicked my ass.

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  Review by cherryz ★★

  Day 17. Thailand.

  All I can say is that's a creepy feel at the end.

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  Review by Keenan Tamblyn ★★★★ 1

  Kinda weird how no one talks about this one, I'd assume a bleak ass horror movie from the director of Calvaire would be up everyone's alley but when I brought it up with my friend who runs the video store I work at he was like "oh man people hated Vinyan when it came out, everybody just wanted another Calvaire".

  Maybe it's because the horror in Vinyan is more existential, more atmospheric, heavy on the drama and lighter on the gross-out chop 'em up gore. You could make an arguement for it's inclusion in the New French Extremity canon but I feel like Fabrice Du Welz very deliberately trying to make something different. Is it still a horror movie though?…

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  Review by Rick D ★

  This is one of those intense movies that I want to really like but in the end am too confused to really care.

  I have trouble relating right off the bat since I do not have kids.

  Rufus Sewell and Emmanuelle Béart lost their child during the massive tsunami that struck Thailand. Dead or lost, I have no idea.

  Emmanuelle thinks she sees her son in a video in a remote part of the area. Is her son alive?

  She goes on a mission not caring for her or her husband's safety as she has convinced herself the son is alive.

  They take insane chances with unknowns paying them alot of money for assistance in locating their kid. Seedy and…

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  Review by Cliff ★★★

  Fabrice du Welz is a fine director of unsettling, dark thrillers, and in Vinyan he's aided by stylish cinematography by Gaspar Noe's DP Benoît Debie and classy editing from Colin Monie, but a lethargic plot and two unlikeable leads stop it from being one of his best. Those leads are Rufus Sewell (angular and mucky) and Emmanuelle Béart (collagen-ravaged) as a European couple in Thailand, who lost their young son in a tsunami, and if we're supposed to sympathise with them, then that's the only reason the script gives us to, because he's a short-tempered arsehole and she's practically a shell of a woman. They chance upon some video footage which suggests that the boy is alive and living in…