66
Metascore
8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- The best thing about Scare Me is that, for all of its entertaining qualities and acute cuts at white male fragility, this is one excellent guide to writing and filming good horror.
- 79PolygonTasha RobinsonPolygonTasha RobinsonScare Me plays some thoughtful games with the idea of horror-comedy, and eventually, Ruben uses the self-aware humor to sharpen the shocks.
- 78Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpPaste MagazineAndrew CrumpThere are reasons we enjoy the adrenaline blast horror movies give us. Scare Me, which should be essential viewing as the Halloween season dawns, understands those reasons well and celebrates them with enough laughs and gasps to leave viewers choking.
- 75RogerEbert.comNick AllenRogerEbert.comNick AllenOf course, this film wouldn’t work without such engaging storytellers, and Scare Me has that with Cash and Ruben.
- 67IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandBolstered by a creative storytelling set-up, Ruben and his very game co-star Aya Cash skewr horror tropes as well as cultural obsessions ranging from TV talent shows to the Bechdel Test. The result is a winking horror comedy with a lot on its mind — perhaps too much.
- 60The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeIt works for the most part because of Ruben and Cash and the spiky chemistry they share.
- 58The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe idea that movies can easily lose 10 or 15 minutes of running time to curry favor with impatient audiences is often patently absurd, yet nearly every single scene in Scare Me feels some degree of overlong.
- 50VarietyAmy NicholsonVarietyAmy NicholsonScare Me would work even better onstage. On screen, it feels like an experiment in minimalism. The film is heavy-handed only in Fred’s fear of emasculation and Fanny’s digs at “desperate white dudes,” troweled on for socially relevant heft.