anselmdaniel This review contains spoilers.The Void is a low budget horror movie with Lovecraftian themes. The story follows a sheriff that discovers a wounded man. The two drive to the local hospital but then discover a mysterious cult surrounds them. The sheriff along with the hospital's patients, nurses, and doctors desperately try to survive against the cosmic horror before them.The Void is an excellent movie with Lovecraftian themes. it is a movie that has a low budget but executes its story and themes well. Audiences should be warned that the story does become wild and strange. This feeds into the theme of cosmic horror well as many horrific occurrences are not explained and not understood. The audience only understands as much as the main characters do and even this is open to the character's dwindling sanity as the horror envelops them. I liked all of the characters and they are well written. The story has enough twists to keep it engaging and to keep the audience guessing.The budget of the movie low. This is evident in most of the movie taking place in one location with confined spaces. This does work to the benefit of the movie as it contributes to the claustrophobic atmosphere of the movie. The monsters in this movie are not well realized. The monsters are shown too much on the screen where they lose their weight. With the low budget it can be easy to pick apart messy details on the monsters. The monsters do look horrific at first but become static as the screen time goes on.The actors and actresses did a good job in this movie. The only complaint I have is the lack of range. Most of the characters are reacting to horror. The actors and actresses were fine for this purpose but were not fully tested. Likewise, the dialogue was well written.There are some story problems. Since, the movie does not explain actions, some events are open to interpretation. Once it is revealed that the hospital's doctor was behind the events, some of the plot does not make much sense. The doctor was able to reincarnate and serve his eldritch god. He also wanted to bring back his daughter. it seemed as if he could have killed the other characters before the movie started or even have caused character deaths to aid in his plans. This is still open to interpretation and I am glad the movie ended the way it did.I highly recommend The Void. It is a movie with heavy Lovecraftian inspiration. The movie is a must watch for any fan of Lovecraft.

AnimalMother84 Nothing short of classic horror film-making here. It could have neatly fit into John Carpenter's apocalyptic films, specifically Prince of Darkness to which it seems a spiritual sequel of sorts. It kicks off a disturbing scenario from the first minute and plummets straight into nightmarish soon enough. I haven't seen this kind of enjoyable and well made practical effects since the 80's The Thing, or perhaps as late as Species. No glaring and cheesy CGI is to be seen. What there is of CGI budget is all splurged on gorgeous otherwordly scenes. The main set has the lovely dichotomy you would find in a classy Silent Hill hospital, with juicy decorations from Clive Barker's Hellraiser. The people who made this clearly knew what they were doing.Tired of teen splatter films? Seen one ghost movie too many? Do jumpscares make you groan and roll your eyes? Try this. You won't be disappointed.

adonis98-743-186503 Shortly after delivering a patient to an understaffed hospital, a police officer experiences strange and violent occurrences seemingly linked to a group of mysterious hooded figures. Despite some terrific special effects with the monsters (one looked like the thing from Alien Resurrection and the other looked like the Mummy from the first 2 Fraser flicks) but with those props aside 'The Void' is a cheap knock off of The Thing and other horror flicks and it has some horrible perfomances in it alongside with some generic problems that this genre has in general. Overall not worth it as a whole except the special effects. (3/10)

salmon62 If the producers and director of this movie are going to make a film this convoluted and non-cohesive out of some sort of desire to make an homage, then I get to write a consumer review that accurately describes this mess!This movie has so many disparate parts of other horror movies thrown together to constitute a separate movie that defies description due to its inconceivable plot lines. Is it horror? Yes, Its a horrible film because it tries to be something its not. Is it science fiction? Yes, its scientifically a bad movie!The dialogue (script) is a mess------lots of superfluous use of yelling and the "F" word, to no practical benefit. There is gore, but that does not sustain a movie.This movie seems to have been made not for the enjoyment of the movie viewers, but to satisfy the movie makers desires to be seen as in the same company as "iconic" horror storytellers from the past------storytellers who are no longer relevant to consumer tastes.I won't name these former icons of horror filmmaking because that is what the makers of "The Void" want in comparison of their effort.The Void is aptly titled because their are several voids in the plot. Any reasonable viewer is left wondering, "What the hell is that included for", or "What just happened?'There is absolutely no redeeming quality to this film. Given that, examine the hyperbole and scores used by the paid reviewers and production crew ro celebrate this movie. You will see the corruption that IMDb has fostered.Its alarming that IMDb has allowed paid reviewers or people affiliated with the production to hijack the reviews to promote this movie among others. It seems to be part of the movie -making process today to include post-production positive reviews on IMDb as part of the marketing. Its dishonest!