Vinyan Reviews
Empire Magazine
Horrific and harrowing but the narrative arc could leave the audience unmoved.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticA menacing pseudo-horror thriller with arty aspirations.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Film4
A remorselessly grim but deeply affecting psychological horror that's likely to bitterly divide its audience. Not for the faint-hearted, Vinyan is a pitch-black, poetic exploration of the nightmare of losing a child.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Guardian [UK]
Du Welz never manages to generate enough menace - this is no Apocalypse Now.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Sunday Times (UK)
Vinyan is a fine example of art-house horror. It's rich in spooky atmospherics, but it's not really scary.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Little White Lies
Without resorting to cheap frights or bogeymen, Vinyan locates its horror in the human heart of darkness.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Sky Movies
Don't Look Now meets Heart of Darkness.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Total Film
A sense of dread weighs heavy throughout, reinforced by a score so intense that at times it verges on abusive. Yet this is also one of the most gorgeous-looking films in recent memory, with brave, unabashed performances.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Express
Steeped in a bleak atmosphere and beautifully made, Vinyan journeys from the credible to the pretentious as the tension mounts and the horror grows increasingly extreme.
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| Original Score: 3/5
This is London
A dark and pessimistic drama which goes slap-happily mad towards the end but keeps you watching all the same.
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| Original Score: 3/5
SFX Magazine
This could have been a strong supernatural thriller in its own right. However, while its premise is potentially decent, too much of the film is spent just waiting for something to happen.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Shadows on the Wall
A vivid example of style over substance, this textured film creates an overwhelming sense of emotion and dread, but never manages to find a point to it all. It merely gives into the grisliness, leaving us shaken and unstirred.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Filmstar Magazine
...an initially strong study of grief that gives way to cheap thrills.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Filmcritic.com
incredibly intense and, sadly, obtuse
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Reel Film Reviews
...it's ultimately impossible to deny the effectiveness of the astonishingly grim atmosphere.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
