buse_wearn First of all my mind made up too many scenarios, like family members are full of barberians who were trying to some kind of hypnotical experiments or Alicia has a serious mentall illness but later than it all became make sense (which is too long for explain) and finally get involved with it. I've just loved the ending, mix with herbal tea, 15 valium and also unknown 3 pills of course she would have a fatal heart attack! Ending was all about traditional treatments againts modern treatments. In general this movie is just not for everyone so it doesn't make it boring. Great movie with disturbing scenes.

aholler-88880 Love Horror movies...this wasn't one. Suspense, maybe. It was a slow start for me..Why did Sarah really hang back? Abortion? The puppy scene and parrot scene were overboard "gore"(?) Did the sister of Aug "over drug" Alicia? One other thing that puzzles me, the constant nightly sounds...bird or insect? why? was that making Alicia "MAD"? Why the mirror phobia? This movie left me with too many WHYS, and I don't like it! I want to understand the movies that I watch..or I end up feeling that I wasted my time. How about the herding dog? Why was she scared of it? It just "humped" her, that's all. Also, in the car going to the "witch doctor" the sounds in the car, like the whines of the puppy from earlier scene. Was that all the craziness roll into a ball, that she had experienced up til now? First question, why wasn't she able to sleep? noise? light? Why wouldn't the older sister let Alicia sleep somewhere else? Brink(?)character VERY annoying. How about just changing the title of the movie so people DO NOT expect MAGIC. Title of movies make you think that that word would be part of the movie. Titanic, you would not expect to see woodland creatures running and playing...you get my drift. Name it SPIRIALLA or something like it. Oh yeah, I felt like I was slapped at the ending. WHAT? I may sit and watch this again just to pay more attention....what did I miss?

znegative Magic Magic is one of the original and darkest films I have seen in a while. To call it a horror movie wouldn't be quite accurate, but boy is it unsettling.The story revolves around Alicia, a young woman who comes to Chile to visit her cousin Sarah. Sarah, her boyfriend and her two friends pick Alicia up, and shortly afterwards an emergency forces Sarah to leave Alicia for a few days with her friends. Alicia obviously feels very uncomfortable in this foreign environment, and Sarah's friends are unfriendly and cruel towards her, albeit harmless enough. Alicia's paranoia starts to escalate, until it becomes clear that she is starting to have a psychotic breakdown.This film really resonated with me, and I imagine anyone who's ever dealt with mental illness or perhaps drug use will be very unnerved by 'Magic Magic'. This movie reminded me of my late teen years when I was smoking a lot of pot and taking psychedelics and the paranoia that plagued me. This film captured that feeling in a gritty and uncompromising manner that had my heart literally pounding. I don't think I've felt this kind of dread from a movie in a long, long time.I read some other reviews likening 'Magic Magic' to a David Lynch film, and there's some truth to that, but a more appropriate comparison would be to that of 'Repulsion', Polanski's black and white horror masterpiece.I can't think of one thing wrong with this movie-it's unfortunate there aren't more gems like this out there. If you haven't seen Magic Magic, you're missing out.

actorbrian I'm a big fan of Emily Browning (in fact Sleeping Beauty was a brilliant indie film that she stars in) the entire cast did a fantastic job acting-wise. HOWEVER, this script went absolutely NOWHERE and it is one of those artsy-fartsy endings that was written specifically just to be artsy-fartsy.. Vague and unclear... This in NO WAY was a horror film so i don't know why anyone would bill it that way. I wouldn't even call it a psychological thriller because there were no "thrills" in it. I think the writer of this script smokes peyote or crack on a regular basis.. I'd like the hour and a half back of my life that i wasted watching this film !