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  Review by 🎃🔥Mr. Like🔥🎃 ★★★★ 3

  Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
  Metacritic Metascore: 72
  IMDB: 6.4

  84/100

  Release Date: 06 March 2020
  Distributor: Good Deed Entertainment
  Budget: $3M
  Worldwide Gross: 223K
  Filming Locations: Ireland

  2020 Ranked
  2020 Horror Films Ranked

  Rose: "He started crying, so I told him to get out of my car, and then I ate his sandwich, and I started crying too."

  SYNOPSIS: Rose, a mostly sweet and lonely Irish driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame.

  Rose has an odd talent. She can see and communicate with ghosts and in this bizarre version of Ireland, there…

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  Review by Patrick Pryor ★★

  A charming Irish horror comedy gets kind of undone by its Irishness once all the regressive sexual politics come into play. The Catholic Chuch, man. It's hard to escape.

  Extra Ordinary could've used more focus as well and suffers from the too much too fast trap of some first features. Characters team up, go separate ways, and reunite. A countdown clock starts and stops and starts again. Subplots don't really connect to the main narrative. It's like someone dropped Saves the Cat in a shredder and pasted the structure back together. I wanted to like this movie, but it ran out of gas fast and sputtered to a kind of dire stop.

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  Review by Matt Winfield ★★★★ 2

  🌜Daily Horror Hunt #27 (Sept. 2020)🌛
  [17] Watch a horror movie made in Ireland.

  Aw man, I loved this! A witty, yet charming little horror comedy delving into the world of ghost-talkers, devil deals, HAUNTED CHEESE(!), exploding virgins (and goats!), erect willy rods, and a whole lot of random objects getting possessed by a whole lot of random spooks! No matter how many times they show that “ectoplasm extraction”, it never gets any easier to watch... ugh. This definitely leans more into the quirky comedy side of things, but doesn't try too hard to cram in the laughs that it gets to be too much, comes across very natural. It's well paced, the funny bits flow perfectly, and the exorcist…

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  Review by cherryz ★★★★ 2

  Day 1. Start April off with a good belly laugh. Watch a horror comedy

  Awe....bless this Irish black comedy down to its cotton socks. I'm so charmed so I am. Explains why I often have bad dreams after eating cheese. Ghosts can posses cheese quiet easily.

  Who you gonna call? Rose Dooley!

  Martin Martin is quite a bumbling love, but when his dead wife Bonnie and her fag come out I'm in love.

  You can't get a better evil guy than a devil worshiper called Christian.

  Ah go on grab a couple o toasted sandwiches, a juice box and some mints, If you're like me your wee heart will melt so it will.

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  Review by Tasha Robinson ★★★

  Cute, amiable mid-life romance slash slapstick adventure about a woman with supernatural powers over ghosts meeting a guy with a serious dead-wife ghost problem, and a rock star (Will Forte) who's determined to sacrifice a virgin to the lords of hell to get another charting hit. The directors described this as a live-action cartoon, and while it's nowhere near that manic in its pacing (which is pretty low-key slice-of-life), it's easily that silly. (At one point a goat explodes for a light gag.)

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  Review by LeSchroeck ★★★½

  Ach schau an: ein weiterer Film mit einer weiblichen Geisterjägerin. Und er ist witzig, sympathisch, unaufgeregt wie auch überraschend, feminin und eigen. Ja, der Mittelteil verschleppt Tempo und Inhalte, der Humor ist spezieller und Will Forte bleibt als Satanisten-Popstar etwas hinter den eigenen Möglichkeiten. Aber der gute Anfang, angenehm dezente Zitate (auf z.B. "Der Exorzist"), Maeve Higgins als realistisch-romantische Rose, Barry Ward als kotzendes Medium/Beta-Männchen (herrlich) und dass die wirklich besten Gags bis zum großartigen Finale aufgespart werden, sind ein mehr als adäquater Ausgleich. Sollte jemand vielleicht mal Paul Feig zeigen.

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  Review by Ayo Edebiri ★★★★

  very cute but didn't feel too cloying. the sense of humor felt very specific and irish. the effects and look and feel were really impressive to me. and I just found it cute and I laughed a bunch! that is how I felt!

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  Review by Greg Dundee ★★★★

  I was attracted to this because it’s got Will Forte in it (I’m a big fan of Last Man on Earth), but I was pleasantly surprised by what a funny, good natured film it is. Very quirky right from the start, and loads of fun throughout. Forte is great, but actually the standouts are Maeve Higgins and Barry Ward, who are both hilarious and have great onscreen chemistry. Definitely one to check out if you like light hearted, silly comedies with a bit of heart (and satanism).

  8/10

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  Review by Tears_in_Rain ★★★½ 10

  Jozlyn Recommends 14

  
  Well, Jozlyn went and reviewed a movie that was slated for our whole Recommends thing, so I think I'm going to surprise her with this.

  Anyway, I'd probably watch a lot more quirky romcoms if they had virgin sacrifices, haunted trash bins, and occult-obsessed, has-been rock stars. I mean, call it a horror comedy if you want, but this is a bloody Irish romcom. But, in all honesty, it was quite charming. I laughed out loud numerous times. I particularly enjoyed the concept of the guy who's trapped in an abusive relationship with his deceased wife, which I can't help but feel is a metaphor for grief.

  I liked all the performances here, but Will Forte definitely steals the show, as the aforementioned occult weirdo/rock star, Christian Winter. So, if you're in the mood for something light and charming, with some horror elements to spice things up a bit, this is worth checking out.

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  Review by Spooky Fred 🇵🇷 ★★★ 2

  Maeve Higgins has the exact energy I want in my life right now.

  In her breakout role, Higgins is a charming, chill presence that is far and away the best thing about Extra Ordinary. The film itself has an immensely pleasant aura about it that, largely because of Higgins, makes its simultaneously familiar and oddball story the stuff of pure comfort viewing. More than that, it makes overriding its recognizable trappings and shortcomings an easy ask from viewers in the mood for bubbly horror-tinged entertainment.

  The humor here mostly works (with the exception of scenes to do with Will Forte who feels miscast) and adds a welcome slight edge to the otherwise soft-textured film. Barry Ward (who's having a banner…

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  Review by MarMar ★★★

  This is a clear of example of wishing another filmmaker made a film instead of the one that made it what it is. It’s funny sometimes and quirky when it wants to be, but a person like Taika Waititi would have made this premise truly amazing if it was in his hands. It’s a cool horror/rom-com or whatever

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  Review by Fake Shemp

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