Review of Peacock (2010) by Angel G — 16 Nov 2012

A creepy, tense, quiet psychological thriller and proves that silence, suspense and having a chilling performance is the key to making these kinds of movies. Its a shame that this movie was seen very little in theaters and went to a Straight-to-DVD kind of movie.

The movie is effectively creepy and the cast completely shines. Particularly Cillian Murphy who gives an brilliant and intense performance, because his character switches to female in the morning to make John's (Cillian Murphy) breakfest or laundry and when he goes to work, he switches to male.

The anxiety in his male character is very intense, and the craziness when he is Emma (also Cillian Murphy). The images and when Murphy's character changes his face completely to be a woman is tense, but sometimes it can disturb you from the expressions he/she makes.

Ellen Page and Susan Sarandon are also great, but Cillian really steals the show here, and features his best and most underrated performance to date, but sadly it didn't get praised for award consideration and for a low-budget film, it shouldn't be called "low-budget".

Peacock has solid direction, solid underrated performances, great cinematography, creepy images, tense music and an ending that could of worked better, but it still made it haunting.