Tue Des Fins

Massacred animals for an awful film

Angourie Rice blew my mind away, she's truly the best... at butchering every single song. The way she sings "we'll get our party now" is the most abominable thing I've ever heard. She does not measure up to her cast mates and a much more competent person should've been in this spot. We need to stop letting Hollywood get away with hiring talentless rich kids.

You can't deny that this film is well crafted, with excellent actors. However, the producers intention was to have the audience rooting for Oliver by the end, and the film didn't accomplish that for me. The relationships between him and Felix fell flat for me and I found myself not caring about any of the characters. If they had focused more on their bond over spending a ludicrous amount of time on the vampire scene, and the mirror vomit, the film could've been much more compelling. There are pulls from other, better works like Lolita with Oliver being an unreliable narrator, however, we did not need Olivers narration to further the film. It would've been better had it been omitted altogether.

Not the worst media I've ever consumed and thats the best I can say. The child actor and Josh Hutcherson were excellent actors. If the cop character was thrown out the movie would have been much more successful, if she was cut out the focus could have been on the child victims, and their story. It's clear Scott Cawthorn had too much power in the writing process because nothing tied together well. Instead of the cop being a forced romantic interest that blanketly told us everything that was going on, we could've learned more about the children through the dream sequences but it seems like that idea was either scrapped or heavily argued about. In the end, the adult woman (cop) who helped her adult father continue to commit heinous murders is seen as a love interest and a selfless hero, even though she justified the murder of petty thieves . Also the woman who played the aunt was a bad actress. Set design and the animatronics were stellar.

Clara, as a character, fully cemented this as one of the most idiotic movies on the planet. You're telling me they allowed themselves to get blackmailed by some lowly criminal that easily could've gone back to jail for even bringing up extortion? If Clara was actually smart she would've used the situation as leverage to keep her job at the pool. But the writers for this movie are so stupid, they couldn't fathom this possibility. No wonder this film only made 6k. Also Jonna is so unlikeable and Bree isn't anywhere near interesting enough to have a character to root for.