This film is definitely not for me, Im barely managing to get to the end of it and I'm only watching the end of it cause I want to know what happens. To me this film is really bad there is hardly any story to it and it seems to just be about a whole load of psycho people doing psycho things like getting there girlfriend to attack them and kill there unborn child. The characters in this film are seriously messed up. I like my horror movies but this is one of those horror movies that makes you bored out of your mind. I don't know what else to say thats how terrible and boring it was. The only good thing about it is that the acting in it is good but apart from that I am bored out of my mind. I don't recommend this film to anyone.

I'm so critical of movies lately that it takes a lot to impress me (sadly), but I really dug this film. I thought the name, "Proxy," was odd. I would have called it something like, "A Bunch of Raging Lunatics." There's a whole lot of batsh*t crazy people in this film, but it made for a good story. And I wouldn't say it was totally predictable. At the half-way point I found myself thinking, "Interesting, I wonder where they're going to go from here." Some pretty good twists but nothing shoved down your throat. I feel like a lot of films "twist" just for the shock value. This story flowed naturally and it was all believable. There's even a scene that would have made Lars von Trier proud. Him and Chuck Palahniuk. I felt like he definitely could have created these characters.I would call it "Inside" meets "Gone Girl" meets "Red, White, & Blue." Which are all films that are right up my alley.

Talking to a family friend about my plans to view Horror films with an "epic" running time for the upcoming October Challenge on IMDb's Horror board,I got told about an excellent-sounding, 2 hour (!) Horror from the Mumblecore genre that he had recently picked up on DVD,which led to me getting ready to locate the proxy.The plot:Walking to the bus stop after having an ultrasound scan, Esther Woodhouse is attacked by a stranger,who knocks Woodhouse out,and kills her unborn child.Waking up in hospital,Woodhouse is told that she barely survived the attack,and that she has lost the unborn child.Trying to help Woodhouse out as much as possible,the hospital arranges Woodhouse to attend a therapy group designed to support women who have lost a child.Nervously sitting down for her first therapy meeting,Woodhouse begins talking to Melanie Michaels,who is attending the sessions after her husband and son had died in a car accident.Feeling that she is able to open up to Michaels the most in the group,Woodhouse (who apart from a lover has no friends or family) starts meeting up with Michaels outside of the group,for lunch and coffee.Walking round a department store one day,Woodhouse notices Michaels (who has not noticed Woodhouse) asking security to help her find her missing son.Secretly following Michaels,Woodhouse begins to fear that Michaels may not be all that she seems,when Michaels opens her car door,and her "dead" son walks out.View on the film:Keeping the The Newton Brothers expert score humming away in the background,co-writer/(along with Kevin Donner) director Zack Parker uses long,superbly held takes which allow the full unfolding horror to dig right under the viewers skin.Keeping away from featuring traditional tracking shots,Parker keeps the audience firmly connected to the characters by clearly using tracking shots aimed directly at the characters face,which allows for the horror across their faces to be fully displayed and splashed across the screen.Refusing to turn away from the most terrifying moments,Parker delicately gives each major set piece its own appearance,as Parker goes from scattering blood across the screen in an almost 3D manner,to using creaking floors and shoes to create the image of a traumatising act taking place.Opening the film with a vicious hit,the writers skilfully rip apart every perception that the viewer initially makes on the characters,with the writers pressing down on every small, peculiar moment that the characters express,and pushing them all right to the extremist edge.Along with the gradually revealed horror,the writers also slash the film with sharp Mumblecore conversations,which create a brilliant atmosphere,that suggests that something is deeply wrong.Entering the movie getting left on the floor for dead, Alexia Rasmussen gives a raw performance as Woodhouse,with Rasmussen showing Woodhouse's silent grief to turn into unrelenting rage,as she begins to uncover Michaels.Joined by a wonderfully brittle Joe Swanberg,the elegant Alexa Havins gives a fantastic performance which transforms from light & airy to ruthless and sharp-toothed,as Woodhouse begins to discover the proxy.

Proxy was an intelligent, entertained and dark story about secrets and what do we hide under our skin, it doesn't matter if you're the murderer or the victim.Makes you think, put yourself in the other's shoes. i didn't rated it as a 10, just cause i think the history should be more clear at the end, some people will implied the plot of the movie just by reading the title..others will end up with nothing if they don't know from where that word comes from and it will be a very confusing movie. any way, i loved how it looks, the rhythm was OK,u can feel was the characters are feeling.I would recommend it for people who like psychological thriller.