J. De Champern

I honestly cannot recommend this film. The only reason I gave it two stars is because the fight scenes were very well choreographed. Aside from that, there's nothing about it worth watching. In fact, I didn't even finish it myself. Less than an hour into the movie it became clear that the fight scenes were the core of the movie, with the nonsense storyline being used just to stitch them together, and I started to lose interest. By the time I got to the part where a security guard pulled a power slam onto a butt plug trophy to activate his multiverse jumping power, I was out. It seems like the direction was an attempt to walk the line between silly and profound in the way movies like "A Hitchhiker's Guide" was able to pull off, but this one fell completely short in that attempt.

Possibly the worst game ever made.

As a huge fan of horror movies I was very excited to see this movie when it released. Even more so because it was a break out movie from someone known mainly for comedy and was getting over the top reviews across the board. However... I was completely disappointed by this movie on many levels. It was not the hard hitting, well written and extremely suspenseful movie it was claiming to be. It was nothing more than a very predictable, poorly written exercise of simple minded racist nonsense. The main premise of this movie was very simple, if you're white you're a racist, if you're black you're a victim of white supremacy and envy. The storyline was so predictable that I was able to figure out where it was going and how it would end about 20 minutes in. Still I finished the movie hoping I'd be surprised and it would live up to some of the hype/B.S. the critics were shoveling. Once again I was disappointed. It was about as suspenseful as an old episode of The Twilight Zone. The acting was on par with a C rate independent horror movie from the 70's. And the characters lacked any depth beyond that of either racist or victim. Even the cast was filled with low rate actors with no serious achievements or accomplishments to speak of. After watching it, the reason for the outstanding reviews from critics was obvious. They were put in the position of having to either step on their integrity and say it was a great movie or be called a racist for not liking it. In a country where even a hint or assumption of racism or sexism (true or not) can cost someone their job, their respect, their very livelihood. It's no surprise that any of them chose the safe route, even at the cost of their own personal integrity. After watching this movie and giving it all the open minded consideration I could, I still can't find any qualities in it to deserve the ratings it received. In my 4 decades on this planet I've seen serious accomplishments made in the pursuit of equality and movies like this one do nothing to further that pursuit. It does just the opposite, taking us all back a step and reinforcing the stereotypes that all white people are racist and all black people are nothing more than perpetual victims. One of my most sincere hopes is to live in a world where people are just people and race, class or sex is not even a consideration. That's the way I was raised and something we should all strive for. But that will never come to be if we keep letting people like Jordan Peele with his stereotypically racist mentality influence the public and further deepen the divide just for profit. The examples of it can be seen in the reviews found here. Just scroll through some and see. You'll find people saying that because of this movie they more distrusting and skeptical of white people than they were before. Or some saying that they are now completely distrusting of white people. The only thing I would like to hear from Jordan Peele is if the money he made off this joke of a film was worth the damage he's done to our society. I will never watch anything made, produced, written or stared in by him. No matter how arrogantly clever he thinks he is by putting his name before the title or hiding his initials in the title, he will never be on the level of the horror movie greats like John Carpenter or Wes Craven. He'll never be considered in the same class as Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott, Tim Burton or Stanley Kubrick. He needs to step back, think about the damage he's doing and stick to the low brow comedy he's know for.

As a person Whos suffered from chronic reoccurring sleep paralysis for 30 years now, I was very excited to hear about this film. Even more so because it's a documentary instead of a fictional film. However, my excitement was turned to disappointment before I even finished watching it. I was hoping to see a documentary based in truth and facts, maybe even to learn some of the new scientific and medical discoveries about sleep paralysis. What I found instead were the mostly exaggerated, and some most likely fabricated, tales from 8 people with the disorder. Out of those 8 people, in my opinion, only 1 of them seems to be well balanced and mentally stable with a good handle on her disorder. That person (Kate) gets the least amount of time to tell her story. In total she gets less than 3 minutes of screen time and in those 3 minutes she makes more sense than the other 7 combined. The 2 of the group with the most far out and fantasized sounding tales of supernatural events get nearly half of the films time split between them. From everyone in the group, other than Kate, you'll hear stories that may have a small amount of truth in them but the rest come off as heavily exaggerated with details that are very hard to believe and some that are just not possible. There's stories of memories, events and actions claimed to take place at ages as young as 18 months old. There's a lot of cases where dreams are described as sleep paralysis. Tales of out of body experiences, transference, alien visitors, sexual encounters with demons and communicating with ghost. One of the people interviewed uses it as a tool for religious propaganda. Claiming to have invoked the name of Jesus to permanently drive the "demons" away. The early part of her story lines up with stress induced sleep paralysis, that many people experience at least once in their life, which stopped as she got older and her life became more stable. The later parts of her story sound to me like an attempt to prop up her religion and gain attention. She no longer has the disorder, doesn't want to talk about it, listen to others peoples stories or offer any details. But is perfectly willing to make internet videos, give filmed interviews and tell about how God fixed the problem. It's the same mentality one gets when questioning a religious story or text. Listen to the stories, don't worry about the details, don't ask questions and God did it. Six of the people interviewed come of as attention seeking and some even seem to enjoy being seen as mentally ill, or "crazy" as they put it. One of the problems with sleep paralysis, due to its hallucinogenic symptoms, lack of understanding and mistaken supernatural background, is that it can attract people who want to claim supernatural connections or just be known for having a mysterious rare condition. It's easy to research the symptoms and experiences of others then parrot back what you've heard. But it's very difficult to prove or disprove if someone actually has the disorder. Making it a perfect target for people seeking attention or wanting to cash in on the supernatural aspect with a book or film. If you're looking for real facts about sleep paralysis, look somewhere else, you won't find in this film. If you're looking for a C rate horror film on the level of a Syfy channel movie then switch off your brain for 90 minutes and enjoy. I just wish I had previewed it before buying the DVD.