Review: # Horror
By William Pattison
For Horror Bob's Blog
First off I would like to thank my Youtube buddy Cauwel3 for
making me aware of this film.
#Horror is supposed to be a morality tale about the
inhumanity that modern parents are imparting into their children. In the case
of the six rich spoiled ego case girls director/writer Tara Subkoff takes this
to the extreme. So extreme that there is not one character that the viewing
audience can relate to much less sympathize with, one of the big no nos in horror.
Another failure of the director is the setting. This huge window (literally the
exterior is completely made of windows…) house with garish artwork on the few
walls, including a way large painting of an open hard boiled egg that for some
reason the director uses special FX to make it pulse like a heart on occasion.
In the story six very nasty, spoiled, girls come together at
one of the girl’s garish window house. This is, of course, after the girls
father and his mistress get killed in his car on a road in the woods not far
from the house. The girl’s mother takes off leaving the girls to do as they
choose. For the majority of the film you see the girls being bitches,
constantly doing selfies, and putting on a female pissing contest with each
others They even do this very disturbing dance while wearing creepy masks. And,
I literally mean this is what happens through ninety-eight percent of the film.
The fun ends when one girl calls the fat girl in the group fat. The main girl,
the girl whose house they are in, tells her to leave. The girl is ejected out
into the snow and the cold. She calls her daddy (played over the top by Timothy
Hutton) comes to the house, bullies the girls, and goes out looking for his
daughter. That is finally murders start happening, in the last fifteen minutes
of the film.
To put it simply this film is one that puts image over
substance, stereotypes over actual building of actual three dimensional
characters, endless fluff over solid dramatization. This film promises gore at
the beginning and ends up boring the audience. And, of course when the payoff
is given it is not even worth it. Even the opening credits are barely readable
because the filmmaker shows them in bursts of flashy imogies, which is perfect
for a film that is all flash and nothing else.
As a lover of horror I cannot recommend this film. I hope
this filmmaker learns from this film and does a horror film next time with
better characterization, tension, and real scares.
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