It is true that I love bad movies and I also love horror but bad,
modern horror flicks are just movies that I can't stand. They are
incredibly formulaic and their low budgets often make the movies of
some incredibly low quality. In that regard this movie perhaps is the
worst genre example but it still is lacking good ideas and a decent
enough story.
I don't even get the story of the movie. I don't get it why these
people have to go to an old rehab center and I don't get what their
relationships are. I don't know what they were trying to do and why
they simply didn't get out of there when things started to go bad for
them. I don't get any of it, or perhaps I should rather that I couldn't
care about it and therefore also never really ever tried to understand
the movie.
The characters are also a reason why the story doesn't work out. They
don't really get developed well enough and remain far too shallow and
none of them is really distinctive or likable enough to start to care
for. besides, they of course aren't exactly being played by the best
actors around.
The thing that this movie also could had used was a clear and visible
main villain. Instead now people just simply die but yet there is never
a sense of true threat, since there is no monster of psychotic serial
killer on the loose. Oh well, perhaps it would had made this movie even
more formulaic, so perhaps it's actually a good thing that this isn't
in the movie, though it could had provided with some better and more
interesting kills and some better build up tension/horror.
Problem with these sort of movies also always remain is that when you
have seen one of them, you have seen them all. There is nothing
original about it really and the movie didn't even seemed to try to
throw in some good and creative ideas of its own. It plays things
safely and predictably, which makes this far from anything special or
interesting enough to watch, especially for those who are into the
genre.
No, horror lovers certainly won't enjoy this movie very much. It's far
too formulaic and besides doesn't feature anything scary or gory in it.
The movie doesn't really ever show you anything but only implies a lot,
which also includes a bunch of false scares, that aren't even getting
handled and used properly in the movie.
A bad genre movie, that definitely is not the worst but that is not
saying much in this case really.
4/10
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