The title here is what I quibble against, leading unsuspecting audience-types like myself to suspect supernatural elements in this story when in truth there are none. THERE ARE NONE. A young woman on vacation loses her true north and the people with her wonder what to do about it. Annnnd ... roll credits. "What?! That's it?!" Yep. That's it.

I think this is marketed badly. It's not a thriller at all - it's about mental illness. Juno temple and Emily Browning do well here. The rest of the cast are irritating. The movie moves slowly and the ending isn't really what you would want to see either. I liked it, but it's not entirely engaging and I wouldn't watch it again.

Undoubtedly it is disturbing and things are left lingering in your mind, but the whole film is just so pedestrian and flawed. So expect it to be memorable but maybe not for all the right reasons.

Psychological breakdown of a young US tourist in Chile.The film descends into a mixture of paranoia, scenes of witchcraft and downright breakdown.I say young the person in question is not a child but a young woman Alicia visiting her cousin Sara in Chile.Sara has a mixture of oddball freinds including her boyfriend Augustin, his sister Barbara and freind Brink, the most sadistic of the lot.On a trip to a secluded island cabin, Sara temporarily has to return for a school exam apparently. It leaves Alicia alone in a foreign country amongst strangers who speak their native Spanish language for good measure. The oddballs delve in drunken games, mild animal cruelty and base jumping through the film. Alicia descends into a deeper state of psychological dedpair as the film unfolds.Some people wrongly class this film a horror which under my definition of blood and slasher characteristics of the genre it is far from being.Towards the end we see Alicia being pumped with homemade pills and local witchcraft practices as the nearest conventional hospital is hours away.

i usually dont like this king of film but this is near flawless. if you go in with the mindset that this is a drama and not a horror, you will really see its brilliance

Rented during a binge of Juno Temple films and I have to say that overall the weird atmosphere of the film works, although the ending ultimately left me a bit cold. Temple and Emily Browning are fun in this and Michael Cera gives a truly creepy and unnerving performance as a foreigner who seems to vacillate between goofy and menacing at the drop of a hat.Rental.

Kept me wondering and thinking about what was gonna happen and why was it happening. Sad to say but it had a terrible ending not much was explained. Worth watching I guess.

Magic Magic starts really well, with interesting characters and great atmosphere.Then it starts to go for some really weird and loud scenes that kinda freaked me out, but I guess that's what Silva was going for. The tension is well managed here, and the visuals are really amazing, it's beautiful to look at, but the best thing of the movie is Juno Temple's character, Alicia. The end is really inconclusive, it left me with bad taste because I wanted something more to happen, and I asked myself what was going on, because it couldn't end there. But it did. The performances are really great, everyone is great here, but as her character, Juno Temple steals the show. If you like weird and tense suspense films see the film, but don't expect a classic.

the nightmare that is a teenage girl without her phone - chilling

Another journey into Chile with Cera and Silva, this is an interesting work. Ultimately it is a slight film that is big on mood and uses its cast extremely well. Temple is on very good form, her character is frustrating to be around and it is to her credit that we stick with her. Cera plays a very douchy character and does a great job. Overall this is an engaging flick that makes the most of the ominous mood that it creates. Well worth a watch....

Algo chiflada pero entretiene.

rather trippy .... I like trippy.

Disturbing and unsettling.

An horrifying (& sometimes hilarious) film about EXTREME mental illness. This director is fucking amazing.

The movie suffers in many ways from its often akward pace and unneven situations, but it works nicely as a drama/thriller, even if it doesnt really excell on what its trying to do, or what I thought it was trying to do. It still offers some very interesting moments fueled by some very interesting and accurate acting, and even if it isnt entirely satysfying by the end, it manages to capture some truly insane moments and a very murky and slightly depressing atmosphere from the beggining.