Review of Tideland

Tideland (2005)
7/10
This is the mother of all the movies with crazy people
13 April 2008
I can't really grade this film, as it is so weird and at the same time compelling. Having seen it, I wish I hadn't, but both me and the missus could not stop the movie, we had to see it end.

Bottom line, if you are like me and you thought this is some fairy tale movie you are dead wrong. This is about a girl, raised by crazed drug addicts, going in the wild prairies, having both parents die, meeting insane neighbours and ending up with crazy town folk. All this while talking to herself and imagining she is somewhere (and somebody) else.

If you want to know what this movie is like, imagine one of those cliché films where some inbred redneck has a mummified parent in the attic and hunts innocent but horny teenagers in order to impale them into a hook or something. Well, this film is describing the childhood of the said killer, before actually finding out there are nasty horny teenagers in the world and are still blissfully ignorant of the world around them.
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