Mei “Mae” Davids

I love it! It’s just as fun and corny as you’d expect it to be, but there’s still a lot of creativity. The practical effects (while not always realistic) are really great. Modern slashers often rely too much on cgi, so it’s nice to see some good old-fashioned guts again. While it’s more funny than scary, some of these kills are messed up on a psychological level. If you don’t like children watching their parents get brutally murdered by their favorite characters, this is not the movie for you.

It looks and feels like it was made before 2010. It’s dark without any real substance. All the good lines are copied from the book. The acting is sub-par and is often so cartoonish that it’s distracting. They re-use a suprising amount of footage and use way too much slow-mo. I understand that they had to change things, but almost every change just makes the movie worse. The costumes look like they came straight out of a 13-year-old’s cyberpunk webcomic. If you enjoy edgy distoylpian films with plotpoints and characters that go nowhere, this is the movie for you.