#Horror is an apt title as it was a horror show from beginning to end… and not in a good way. The logic is non-existent but I could overlook that but when you have basically nothing but obnoxious characters, the majority pre-teen girls who were annoying, it was tough to sit through and early on I was rooting for the killer.
#Horror
(2016)
REVIEW NAVIGATION
The Movie | Special Features | Video Quality | Audio Quality | Overall
Genre(s): Horror
Shout Factory | NR – 98 min. – $19.99 | April 5, 2016
Date Published: 03/25/2016 | Author: The Movieman
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THE MOVIE – 0/5 |
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Wow. That’s all I can say after watching the train wreck named #Horror or Rich People Are Assholes and So Are Their Pre-Teen Brats. The film opens in typical mystery killer/slasher fashion with a man (BALTHAZAR GETTY), following a sexual encounter in his sports car with a young woman (LYDIA HEARST) is killed by an unseen assailant, and for good measure, the woman is also killed. This man is married to bored housewife and mother Alex Cox (CHLOE SEVIGNY) who spends the majority of the film attending an AA meeting that, mind you, she drives to with one hand on the wheel, the other holding a glass of vodka. We are also introduced to Dr. Michael White (TIMOTHY HUTTON), father to one of the girls who is strict and I think only there, I think, to be a possible suspect.
However, for all the adults in the film, including Natasha Lyonne making what amounts to a cameo appearance with only one scene early on, we spend the bulk of the 90-minutes with several brat kids spending a night at A-list mean girl Sofia Cox’s (BRIDGET MCGARRY) house, for a sleepover: Sam (SADIE SEELERT), Cat (HALEY MURPHY), Ava (BLUE LINDEBERG), Georgie (EMMA ADLER) and Francesca (MINA SUNDWALL). There’s a bit of back story with Cat, who is suffering from some psychological effects of bullying in the past, and Sam who is embarrassed for her lack of wealth whereas the others live posh lifestyles. The others I presume have parents but we never meet them. And… that’s really it. Outside of the first scene, there are no deaths and the rest are with those obnoxious brats as they fight against one another, to the point one of the girls is kicked out, they lock up their phones in a vault and trade sob stories about their terrible 12 miserable years on this planet. By the time the third act rolls around and the director decided this movie needed some sort of plot, I couldn’t have cared less and it got to the point, maybe halfway through, that I was rooting for the killer.
Honestly, there’s not much more I can say about #Horror other than there is absolutely no redeeming value and I’m not even sure what the message, if any, there was. Maybe it’s about online bullying? Kids and their addictions to their phones and games? Whatever it was, it results in a movie that I placed as my all-time worst and I assure you, I’ve seen some major doozies over the years. The acting is bad and the two with any sort of talent, – Chloë Sevigny and Timothy Hutton – were utterly underutilized. |
SPECIAL FEATURES – 0.5/5 |
| The only feature included is the film’s Trailer (1:42; HD). |
VIDEO – 4.25/5 |
| The movie might be bad but the picture isn’t. The movie is presented with a 2.40 widescreen aspect ratio and a 1080p high-definition transfer and detail is fairly sharp but whenever it switches to the on-screen games, colors tend to be brilliant and bright as demonstrated by this screen capture. The live action scenes are fine though nothing outstanding, but given what I assume was a small budget, it’s impressive enough. |
AUDIO – 3.0/5 |
| #Horror comes with both 5.1 and 2.0 channel DTS-HD Master Audio tracks and it’s rather mundane and unimpressive. The dialogue levels were OK I suppose but everything else from the score to any ambient noises, which were few and far between, were flat. The track just lacks any depth and even the LFE channel is rather lifeless. |
OVERALL – 0/5 |
| Overall, #Horror is an apt title as it was a horror show from beginning to end… and not in a good way. The logic is non-existent but I could overlook that but when you have basically nothing but obnoxious characters, the majority pre-teen girls who were annoying, it was tough to sit through and early on I was rooting for the killer. The Blu-ray release offers good video, so-so audio and virtually nothing in the features department. |
Check out some more screen caps by going to page 2. Please note, these do contain spoilers.