I got that the boyfriend has tried to use witchcraft to win back his girl but what a long time to tell a simple story.

The scenes are far to drawn out. The melon scene was painful to watch and I actually skipped through it. I thought I was going to have to sit for 5 minutes watching her clean out the messy fridge too. Fortunately that was shorter.

It gets a 4 because, yes, the plot was hidden and subtly suggested but that's it, and it is *only* suggested. I could even be wrong about it. The acting was mostly first year student level. Was this a class project? Watch it for yourself if you really want to. I wish I hadn't.

I saw that the reviews on this were very polarized, so i thought I'd give it a watch to get my take in. First, the good: The cinematography on this is amazing. Nice color range, very clear, with many shots that could be art pieces on their own. Somebody clearly knew what they were doing. The acting was quite good too despite the cast being entirely made up of unknowns. So far this sounds like a really good movie, right? That's where we run into problems. The pacing is just off, and the story seems at first almost non-existent. There's slow-burn abut this is almost no burn. We spend most of the movie asking ourselves if it is going anywhere. For example, after a while the main character is enjoying a beverage, doing nothing, and decides to watch TV. And we watch the show, and nothing happens to the real movie, but we are so happy because at least something is happening on the show. Thirty minutes in, and it seems like something is going to finally happen, but it turns into a prolonged scene of fisting a watermelon. Not doing much anything was better than doing this. OK, sure, the character was looking for something and hollowed out the watermelon to try to find it, but it didn't really ring true. If a watermelon starts wobbling on its own and you get the notion that something might be inside of it, the first thing I'd be thinking is that it has a rat or insects. I would certainly not shove my arm deep inside trying to scoop the innards out. Fully half the movie is over before we get clear indication that something is wrong, and even there it could just be mental illness or something. And it goes on, and then something actually happens! Sorry, false alarm, it was only a dream. But maybe the dream means something. In the end (very near the end!) we do kind of end up somewhere, and some of the earlier details that didn't seem important kind of fit, but... It just doesn't work. The plot is the kind of thing that sounds good on a 3x5 note card, but you need more than that. This would have made a good 15 minute short. Plus I really don't think this should be called a horror movie. There's a couple of horror-like moments, but they are very brief. This firmly fits more in the magical realism genre. For a first-time effort, this was fairly impressive. It has a few of the right elements, and several really good things about it. But, as a feature film, it's not quite there yet.

Of course I had not heard about this 2023 movie titled "Soft Liquid Center", when I happened to stumble upon it by random chance here in 2024. Initially I skipped on the movie, given the movie's rather uninteresting cover. But I came back to it, wanting to find out what it was about. And seeing it was a horror movie, of course I opted to sit down and watch it.

Writers and directors Zachary Gutierrez, Steph Holmbo and Joseph Kolean put together a script and storyline that wasn't overly interesting. The narrative of the movie was rather mundane and slow paced, and thus it was somewhat of a struggle to sit through it and keep feigning an interest in what was transpiring on the screen. 31 minutes into the movie and I was already ready to call it quits, yet I opted to endure and stick with it, hoping the movie would pick up in pace and contents.

However, that just never happened.

I was not familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie. However, I can't claim that I was particular impressed with the performances I witnessed on the screen. Sure, I've seen far worse acting performances in other movies, so at least it wasn't all bad.

The dialogue in the movie is a bag of mixed nuts. Some of the dialogue is amazingly dubious, cringeworthy and just downright bad, and those instances were a bit difficult to sit through.

Throughout the course of the movie, directors Zachary Gutierrez, Steph Holmbo and Joseph Kolean did incorporate some rather interesting visual shots, which did add a sense of mystery.

I would not recommend you waste 82 minutes on watching "Soft Liquid Center", not even if you are a horror aficionado like myself. This movie just simply isn't worth the effort. The movie was effectively as bland and boring as the movie's cover.

My rating of "Soft Liquid Center" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.