xhidden99 Every scene is almost pitch black or lit from overhead through a porthole. Either that or they live in a cave. Extreme closeups w super short focal length so everything except the face in extreme closeup is out of focus. It's just an annoying one trick. You could easily replace 90% of the movie by leaving the lens cap on.For the story? Alyce is a straight up whackjob. Whether it's the binge drinking or the drugs or she fell out her mama that way, who knows? Who cares? She's an annoying a-hole either. But the good thing is that there's not a single character who doesn't really need to have their head beat in with a hammer.

ASouthernHorrorFan "Alyce" is directed by Jay Lee and stars Jade Dornfeld, Tamara Feldman, James Duval and Eddie Rouse. The story follows two best friends reconnecting after a small period of "too close for comfort" in their relationship. However after accidentally pushing best friend Carroll off the roof of a building Alyce finds her world crumbling fast. It isn't long until she spirals into a reality of darkness filled with drugs, reckless sex and homicidal impulses. The film is a dark satire and utter gorefest as viewed through Alyce's perspective. "Alyce" is a unique blend of art-house expressionism and surrealism. It is a very dark comedy that plays with the whole "Single White Female" personality disorder pushing the scenario beyond the traditional outcome. The film takes a very quirky off-beat approach that reminds me of Todd Solondz's or Alexander Payne but with a lot of gore and blood. The character of Alyce is one of the most twisted sisters that I have seen in cinema in a long while that is as likable as she is horrifying. The movie starts casually, building on the close yet distant emotional relationship between the friends. It is close in the fact that in the beginning they really do seem to be the only one each other can connect with and yet distant due to the fact that Alyce tends to absorb Carroll's personality traits to become her own in that "unsettling- uncomfortable" manner. The series of events that unfold after the tragedy and Alyce's fall from her own state of normalcy is one that both entertains and chills. It is one of the most disturbing slides into madness I have seen on film. I really found no fault in the movie and enjoyed every gory psychotic hot-mess act of homicidal mania that Alyce displayed. Plus the gore and bloody kill shots were pretty d*mn cool and gruesomely in your face.

hi_im_manic Carole and Alyce are young, urban women and very close friends. Each of them is having a bad day. Alyce is socially obscure and on the brink of losing her job and home, while the enviable Carole finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her with other girls. Looking to take the edge off, the young women drink plenty of wine then go to Carole's drug dealer for some spirit-lifting ecstacy. Afterwards, they go to the 4th/5th floor roof of Alyce's apartment building, becoming more intoxicated and goofing around. Carole climbs onto the ledge of the roof, and Alyce runs up to prank-scare her. Carole tragically falls off the roof. Realizing what has happened, a distraught and foggy-headed Alyce returns to her apartment certain that her coveted best friend is dead. After officers come to question her, she discovers that Carole has barely survived the incident but is critically injured and disfigured.Alyce is quickly consumed by overwhelming guilt, and begins experiencing ghostly hallucinations about her friend. She turns to the very substances that led to the accident for "comfort", and one drug is rapidly replaced by even stronger drugs. With a sociopathic drug dealer administering his special brand of social philosophy as her only connection to others, she changes. No longer the guilt-ridden depressee she was, she reveals herself as something depraved, cold and sinister.The first half of this story could be viewed as a simple cautionary tale. But just as the primary character transforms, so does the whole story. It is difficult to categorize the film because the genre is constantly evolving the shifting. This film is not what is presents itself to be initially, and neither is the lead character. What emerges is a gruesome, cold-blooded killing spree and complete madness. Three characters who are likely targets for the killing spree are spared, while others are indiscriminately slaughtered. I'm not sure of the reasoning. One character is hacked to bits and ground into mush, but I see the reasoning behind the action.The main casts acting was convincing enough to earn credibility, thought was put into characters and their development. Buckle up and enjoy this dark ride!7.5. Original and intriguing!

Boloxxxi What is this movie about? It's about a chick who goes crazy. Or---who was not right in the head in the first place and circumstances pushed her over the edge.The first part of the movie has Alyce and her best friend Carroll out on the street late at night. They're both drunk having a public heart-to-heart. Why? After meeting up with her boyfriend earlier at a bar, Carroll found out her boyfriend Vince is cheating on her. Later, they arrive at Alyce's place and consider making out (sorry guys, that went nowhere). Then Carroll suggest that they go out and get drugs. This they do. Later Carroll winds up in a hospital. All of this eats up about 20 mins of the movie. The next part is about how Alyce copes with her sense of guilt. She's a nervous wreck and seeing things. The movie seemed like a ghost story at this point to me. To help her cope, Alyce goes back to the same drug dealer she and Carroll went to earlier to buy drugs. Her behavior gets even weirder.The movie is about a hour and a half. By the last half hour Alyce has totally flipped and the movie doesn't appear to be a ghost story anymore but about a psycho bitch. The ending is so over-the-top in terms of the story and violence, that it becomes a kind of "horror comedy" whereas earlier it seemed like a serious offbeat psychological thriller. Finally, all I can say about this movie is that it's a curious mix of style and content. Subject matter includes: drugs, drunkenness, masturbation, necrophilia, rough sex, butchery (only the last item was explicit). As far as the style goes, it seemed light at first (where's this thing going?), then serious (Damn!), then both light and serious (Huh?) Love, Boloxxi.