SheChotic (2018) User Reviews

Behind Da Mask

[Hammond_Eggs · 2/10 · 16 June 2018]

If you like booties -- B-I-G booties -- then SheCotic is the movie for you!

If you like psychologically complex characters -- with B-I-G booties -- then SheCotic is the movie for you!

If you like badass sistahs packin' brass knuckles and samurai swords -- and B-I-G booties -- then SheCotic is the movie for you!

Check this out:

After hawt homegrrl Maxine, who is a split personality, finds out that her boo (lyin', cheatin' no-account rapper Lance) is two-timin' her with bangin' video ho' Brenda, her psycho bitch Dark Side kicks in, impelling her to go full-on, full-out ghetto on his sorry ass. She overpowers him, beats him, 'cuffs him, kidnaps him, slyly slips him a Viagra Mickey Finn and forcefully rapes him*. Dang! Some dudes have all the luck!

SheCotic is kinda like Repulsion cum Sisters if Roman Polanski and Brian De Palma had, y'know like, grown up in Da Hood. But what triple-threat (writer, director, producer) Leandre Fiori lacks in those filmmakers' creativity and style, he makes up for in casting and fetishism. Right from Jump Street, in the opening shot, Fiori thrillingly presents his artistic focus and vision. And that focus and vision is gloriously, delightfully, tantalizingly on big hips, big thighs (a special shout out to Brother Fiori for scoping the varicose-veined hams on supa fine Maya Tai Dorsey), and B-I-G booties! Can I get an "AMEN!", y'all!

I have seen the (Baby got back to the) future of "Black Cinema" -- and it is badonkadonk, y'all!

* Incongruously, filmmaker Fiori prefaces his flick with a disclaimer concerning violence against women. Say w-h-a-t?! I guess in the #MeToo era, female violence against males is totally copacetic.

Zero interest

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 24 March 2021]

A psychological drama on an indie budget. The tale is set in an apartment and involves adultery, a crazed girlfriend, but that makes it sound more interesting than it is. This is a slow, tedious and bad all round production, shot at speed and generating zero interest.

There really is no need to bother with this one...

[paul_haakonsen · 2/10 · 3 January 2020]

Granted I had not heard about this 2018 movie from writer and director Leandre Fiori prior to getting the chance to sit down and watch it. And nor can I say that this was a movie that I had any particular high hopes for. But still, I sat down to watch it, as I believe all movies should be given a chance.

I managed to endure 55 minutes of the ordeal that is known as "SheChotic" and then I had more than enough of my share of this movie. Let me just be the first to say that this movie was generic and uneventful. It was a low budget movie, an amateurish movie, but at least they get points for trying.

The movie felt very much like something you could make yourself, if you have a proper DV camera laying about. While it does have that amateurish permeation to it, I will say that it wasn't actually all bad what the film crew managed to do.

The story, however, now that was something else. First of all, it was very boring and it didn't really captivate me. But I managed to sit through 55 minutes, hoping that the movie would pick up and become more interesting. Sadly, it didn't!

As for the acting in the movie, well let's just say that this is not going to be pulling home much of any awards anywhere.

I am rating "SheChotic" a two out of ten stars rating, because the movie was boring and rather uneventful. And the lack of convincing acting performances didn't really do much to bolster the movie either. This is not a movie that I had any intentions of returning to finish, however.

Worst Film Of The 21st Century

[MogwaiMovieReviews · 1/10 · 4 August 2018]

This really is one of the worst films ever made. It looks like it was shot on someone's first generation iPad and acted out by whichever passerby said yes when offered a dollar fifty on the street. The acting is atrocious, with every line the lead actress speaks delivered like someone absentmindedly reading out the ingredients on the back of a cereal box. The music sounds like a Guatemalan daytime soap. The movie appears to have been filmed on a porn set, and the audio recorded on one of the catering staff's laptop.

Basically, SheChotic is a no-budget blacksploitation/rapesploitation revenge flick doing its darndest to ride the coattails of the present #MeToo hysteria and cram as much far-fetched rapeiness as it possibly can into its 90 minutes running time. I have no idea what it is trying to say but whatever it is, it's saying it very badly.

It's possible it could become one of those "so laughably bad it's good" movies like 'The Room' with time, and maybe there's a drinking game in there somewhere but I think that's a long shot and unrealistically optimistic. It's just completely unwatchable.

Young and Wild

[nogodnomasters · 1/10 · 29 August 2021]

Maxine (Erica Mitchell) still has nightmares when she was raped by her step-father, later murdered by her brother. Her boyfriend Lance (Robert D Watts ) and soon to be the baby-father has been cheating on her with Lana (Brittany Bryant). Maxine has a split personality and soon abducts and ties up Lance.

This is low budget Atlanta film. The sound was hollow and the acting was non-existent.

Guide: No swearing. Rape, sex, nudity (Erica Mitchell, Brittany Bryant)

A great effort at normalizing African-American/PoC filmmaking mediocrity

[The_Melancholic_Alcoholic · 8/10 · 29 December 2020]

Look, this is not the best of movies, but the effort is really great. Yes, the acting is that of some student in Junior High trying to convince teach the dog really ate her homework: inflection, expression is okay, but at the same time, unconvincing AF. This shows that African-American movies can be mediocre too, just like (the bulk of) the white ones. No longer are black filmakers required to be twice as good as white ones in order to get their movies made. When you think about it, this is one of the most emancipating things that can happen, I'm only half kidding.

Yes, the storyline is somewhat predictable, except at the end. But it performs the basics, there are no great plot holes, especially considering the budget.

The lead actress is the biggest problem, acting two roles, Innocent Maxine and Evil Maxine. And because she's got the biggest role, it seems as if the acting is really bad, but truly, the other actors aren't half bad.

The production value is passable, it uses the daytime soap tactic of never doing outdoor shots, which gets annoying. But the aerials of Atlanta are great, although they might've been taken from stock footage.

Also, what's nice, is that the story doesn't stuff itself in the straight jacket of happy endings. It's not the Lilywhite-Goody-Two-Shoes-Ins-Out-In-The-End frame. What I liked too, was the micro role of the white cop. It was so tiny, it kind of rubbed it in even more.

So: Acting by the lead actress: 4 Rest of the cast: 7.5 Montage: 9 Storyline: 7 Location scouting: 8 Production value: 6.5

The Melancholic Alcoholic.