Black Daruma

2023

Horror

5
IMDb Rating 3.7/10 10 144 144

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Plot summary

All filmed from the warped perspective of a doll, Black Daruma is a dark-humoured psychological horror film about an unemployed man who buys a Japanese 'luck doll' to improve his fortunes, only for his life to unravel in disturbing ways.

Director

Fionn Watts Photo
Fionn Watts

Top cast

Julie Higginson Photo
Julie Higginson as Sheryl
Ross Marshall Photo
Ross Marshall as Darren
David McClelland Photo
David McClelland as Shopkeeper
David Castleford Photo
David Castleford as Alan
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699.39 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
us  
24 fps
1 hr 16 min
Seeds 3
1.27 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
us  
24 fps
1 hr 16 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jaheiras 1 / 10

Better sleep than watch this movie.

If we held a competition offering £100,000 to anyone who could make a movie worse than this one, no one would win the competition.I'm sorry, but this isn't even a movie, it's a video. Nothing happens in the movie, nothing. You're just watching the behavior of a sick, low iq dude. You think interesting things will happen in the first scene of the movie, but nothing significant happens. It's so boring. Also, there are so many different features about the Daruma doll but they never thought of using any of them.I don't know who shot the movie, but maybe cinema isn't the best job for you. Please don't make any more movies.
Reviewed by paul_m_haakonsen 1 / 10

What a waste of time...

While I had never heard about this 2023 horror movie titled "Black Daruma", as I happened to stumble upon it by random chance here in 2024, then of course I would sit down and watch it, given my life-long fascination and love of the horror genre.The concept idea for the storyline definitely was interesting, and I will say that writers Fionn Watts and Toby Watts, both of whom also directed the movie, had some interesting ideas on the drawing board and brought to the storyline. However, despite all the good intentions and ideas, it just sort of caved in on itself, because nothing overly interesting happened in the narrative, as it dragged on and on in a rather slow pace.As for the character gallery, well the character Ryan very quickly grew annoying and frustrating to look at and listen to. This was on no account because of actor Richard Galloway, not at all, no it was simply the way that writers Fionn Watts and Toby Watts had fleshed out the character for the movie.Despite of having a rather small cast ensemble, I have to admit that I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. And truth be told, that is actually something I do enjoy, watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen. The acting performances in the movie were definitely fair.Something that didn't sit well with me in the movie was the way that it was shot. Yeah, those hand-held, shaky camera things just doesn't really work for me. And that is what 90% of this movie consisted of, hand-held and shaky camera angles. And I have to say, that at least for me, these unbearable hand-held and shaky camera angles took away so much from the movie, and made it rather difficult to properly enjoy the movie.While "Black Daruma" is listed as a horror movie, I have to say that there wasn't an ounce of anything scary in the movie, unless you consider ridiculous camera work and an annoying leading character as scary, well then you're in luck.What a swing and a miss of a movie. Trust me, you don't want to waste your time, money or effort on this dumpster fire. Some of us suffered through the 75 minutes, so you don't have to; you're quite welcome.My rating of directors Fionn Watts and Toby Watts's 2023 movie "Black Daruma" lands on a one out of ten stars.
Reviewed by cynet-52332 8 / 10

Fab British Indie Horror!

Ok not usually into Indie Brit movies as I generally find them with awful acting as well as poor special effects rounded off with a dumb plot line.

I thought well its had one review and it could be a fake rating as movie companies do that sometimes to rate the movie up the rating charts.

Suprisingly this is a very good Indie horror with a peep eye for the camera shot all the way through the movie which I loved as it reminded of how the comedy UK show peep show was filmed so was impressed with the visuals for this movie.

No spoilers but acting was great and the plot line was great too that you dont notice the film running time of 116 min.

If you are fed up with some of the American B horror movies which they keep releasing on us poor Brits then do check this movie out you wont be disappointed.

8/10 Really loved it which makes a change as I said its just a small independent movie.

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