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Self-Help Reviews
"Self-Help" is another rollercoaster ride from Erik and Carson Bloomquist that leverages familiar trappings with a chilling performance from Jake Weber..
"Self-Help" is a Halloween holiday treat with narrative tricks that will keep movie goers guessing. "Self-Help" is worth watching if only for the bonkers opening sequence showing a young Olivia at her Halloween/birthday party at an arcade.
Director Erik Bloomquist continues to flex his quirky style with charming, yet damaged characters in a horror landscape. The familial exploration only adds to the quality of the cultish nature of this film.
A very confused movie that opens as stabby horror, shifts into cautionary cult terror, and then alternates with tacked-on gore while asking us to take seriously the lead’s path into mental wellness.
If the climax is a bit mundane compared to what has preceded it, we’ve still been given a fair amount of roller-coaster ride.
Around the time of the cliched grand finale, we realize how tedious and circular an affair Self-Help has been.
If schlocky low budget slashers are your thing you'll like this film
It’s more dramatically oriented than an all-out horror show (though the scary stuff definitely lands), and also more psychologically ambitious than the Bloomquists’ previous movies.
An often dull amalgam of psychological thriller, horror and drama with a few twists that aren't very shocking.
Self-Help can be disturbing, but it's only so in strokes too broad to really succeed...
You’ll just have to trust me when I say that this horror thriller has some sinister twists and gorgeously creepy surprises along the way. Also, it gets rather physical (with practical effects) for those in the...
Landry Bender steals the show in Erik Bloomquist's mixed bag of cult horror and character-driven family drama.
There’s a pitch-black, bubble gum silliness to Self-Help, demented in its blend of B-movie fun and character-focused drama. A little Halloweentime gem that’s as sweet as it is nasty.
“Self-Help” is oddly sedate for a Halloween-set chiller, but the Bloomquists have their moments. One just wishes there were more of them.
Bloomquist invites us to think again about the type of people who are drawn into cults, and to reflect on what is missing that they need to replace in this way.
Intense, twisty, and thoroughly dark, Self-Help is another hit for Bloomquist that blends his warped sense of humour with disturbing gore, tense confrontations, and a thoughtful exploration of trauma and family.
Self-Help proves that people are still making good films out there. They might not be dominating cinemas in the way that something like Minecraft is, but they exist and discerning audiences must – and need to – seek them out.
... manages to stick its overall intention regarding generational differences and how the so-called “selfish generation” may be the ones to finally destroy the perpetual cycle of familial trauma.
The Bloomquist Brothers have done it again. ‘Self-Help’ is a witty horror picture sure to keep you guessing until the end.
Self-Help is a fierce attack on leaders, cult or otherwise, who prey on the vulnerable by pushing the fallacy that they’re the only ones who can help people actualise their truest, best self.