I'm going to spoil the shit out of this thing, so you better just find another post to read unless you don't care. Spoiler alert, you shouldn't care cause this movie sucks.
Let's get right to it, we, the people of horror do not have a problem with child killers. We've come to embrace some of them and learned to loath others. Hi Sinister, I"m looking at you. With that said, #Horror doesn't know what the hell it wants to be or what its trying to get across. A movie that stalls in trying to tell a message and then can't capitalize on a number of situations that should be off putting if not terrifying should just wrap it up and call itself #NotWorthYourTime or #WeTookAShitAndCalledItFilm.
#Horror follows the misadventures of several young girls who all have various character flaws through an evening of stupidity and posting on social networks. The film is often interrupted with the flashing of selfies and animated emoticons exploding onto screen. #FuckOff. It interrupts the vibe of the movie and when you're dealing with this film all you want is for these people to be mercilessly torn apart in a slasher capable direction. We don't really get a lot of that.
The first several minutes of the film is dedicated to an actually good moment in slasherology. That's right, I made that word up, get over it. A cheating husband gets his throat cut and his mistress gets murdered shortly after. Well done #Horror you have my attention! What a great setup. If I'm sitting down and I say "Hey Jen (My horror loving sister), I really want to see a slasher film." and the film starts off like this I think we're going to be okay.
NOOOOOPPPPEEEE!
Instead of us getting anything the resembles a decent story for a decent slasher to slash away at. We get a bunch of assholes having a fashion show and the continuous posting of photos, emoticons and ridiculous hash tags. The girls are all rich, mean and some have other mental problems. The film seems to try to get the idea that any of them could be our slasher, and I wished they all were so we could end it already.
What would have worked for this film? Maybe if they would have gone more of the Splatter film route. There might be a scene or two that has some gore in it that calls out to some sort of Splatter film roots. Those scenes are far away from each other and in no way do you get an over all feel for the blood and gore.
This film is weak as a slasher and the characters are over exaggerated. The mean girls are all deserving of the slashtacular endings they receive and the big twist (which is no twist at all) is boring and soft balled to you early on.
I should pick out something good about this, right? Why did I spend the entire hour and change watching this if it wasn't very good? How about the attempted redemption trying to follow some proper tropes (at least they were trying) and then even having a great reveal to one of the characters that there is a killer. The girls all lock their phones in a safe (yes that happens, you have to have some way to wipe technology from the equation when dealing with a slasher) and when a girl finds the car from the beginning of the movie, its a really great flow. Kid finds car, kid finds murder, oh the screams! Oh are we getting some action? Could this film redeem itself? Could we have some really great stuff? Oh the slasher is somewhat stalking its prey now! Yay! Finally!
It's not enough though. I wouldn't watch this film again and I wouldn't suggest it. There's too many other great little pieces of work to get your skin crawling and its much easier to find a proper slasher film and a proper splatter film instead of being confused on which way this thing is trying to go.
Final Verdict: Not Worth Your Time!
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