I saw this movie because a horror streamer I follow gave it a glowing recommendation.
Unfortunately it very poorly done.
The way the premise is portrayed is quite unconvincing.
This young guy is obsessed with an obscure horror movie that is notorious for being terrifyingly scary. But the director went missing, none of the actors can be found and the film footage itself has been lost. He wants to find this notorious film that has been lost.
Not a bad premise at all actually but it is introduced/portrayed so poorly.
And that's a thing about this movie. The overall story itself is actually not bad. It's actually sort of original and good.
But the directing is terrible.
The dialogue is poorly written.
The script in general, particularly how the characters relate inter-personally, is so bad, even by horror movie standards.
10 minutes into the movie there is an avalanche of nudity. Comes out of nowhere and is extremely gratuitous. Whatever I guess.
The relational drama in the movie is so simplistic and heavy handed. Just revolving around sex. And as I said, the dialogue and how the characters relate and the interpersonal stuff is so poorly handed.
Now the thing about this movie is that the overall story is not bad. It's actually fairly good. But the execution of this movie is so bad.
The ending goes hard, but it is not enough to save the movie.
This could have been a good movie if the directing, scripting, dialogue, etc.. were not so awful.
To give you an idea, Halloween 5 is a decidedly better movie than this.
Now this movie does go hard with the ending.
There's some moderately gnarly gore/violence.
The end of the story is pretty disturbing.
But the movie is so poorly made that the story and ending can't save it.
And even during the ending it is still very flawed.
Unfortunately it very poorly done.
The way the premise is portrayed is quite unconvincing.
This young guy is obsessed with an obscure horror movie that is notorious for being terrifyingly scary. But the director went missing, none of the actors can be found and the film footage itself has been lost. He wants to find this notorious film that has been lost.
Not a bad premise at all actually but it is introduced/portrayed so poorly.
And that's a thing about this movie. The overall story itself is actually not bad. It's actually sort of original and good.
But the directing is terrible.
The dialogue is poorly written.
The script in general, particularly how the characters relate inter-personally, is so bad, even by horror movie standards.
10 minutes into the movie there is an avalanche of nudity. Comes out of nowhere and is extremely gratuitous. Whatever I guess.
The relational drama in the movie is so simplistic and heavy handed. Just revolving around sex. And as I said, the dialogue and how the characters relate and the interpersonal stuff is so poorly handed.
Now the thing about this movie is that the overall story is not bad. It's actually fairly good. But the execution of this movie is so bad.
The ending goes hard, but it is not enough to save the movie.
This could have been a good movie if the directing, scripting, dialogue, etc.. were not so awful.
To give you an idea, Halloween 5 is a decidedly better movie than this.
Now this movie does go hard with the ending.
There's some moderately gnarly gore/violence.
The end of the story is pretty disturbing.
But the movie is so poorly made that the story and ending can't save it.
And even during the ending it is still very flawed.