I just watched a submitted screener DVD of this film for our upcoming film festival this year. Checking the IMDb page, I can't for the life of me understand why it has the mediocre rating it does (17 people have given it the lowest score?). The comments that people have taken the time to write have all been extremely positive- so what gives? Nobody that gave the film the low rating dared to write anything, which makes me assume that they have obviously NOT seen it. People give bad scores just to drop a film's rating for whatever reason. There's absolutely no way, after seeing this film, that someone could say that Penny Dreadful isn't a scary movie. It's well paced, looks and sounds great and avoids all the sub-par visual BS that recent releases have to offer. It even beats out many of the current Master's of Horror episodes we've screened lately. Come see it at this year's Hollywood Scarefest.
Review of Penny Dreadful
