The Hatred (2017) User Reviews

Potential but no "end"

[chrisdye3 · 4/10 · 6 September 2017]

So the premise was interesting, but I don't know if they just decided to strip out most of the story during editing, i.e

Regans Grandmother, they made a point of her being unwell, we visit her twice, one point doctor says she flat lined momentarily (i guess supposed to coincide with one of the characters deaths) She even appears as a vision in the house to Regan, but then....nothing Was she supposed to be Alices Mum? what was he connection?

The Amulet, After all that research, it just gets left

I don't think we even see all her friends be killed, she just leaves after only finding one of her friends dead, what happened to the other 2 (last we see of blonde girl she is reading blood writing on the wall in German, we don't even get told what it says?

Started off OK, built up potential for decent story line, then just dive bombed into a shambles)

Terrible

[gloopy-45239 · 3/10 · 2 September 2017]

Do not waste your time with this one, it had the basis of a good plot at the very start, then goes quickly downhill.Acting is terrible, the film is terrible and the ending will leave you wondering why you sat through it.There are far better horror selections out there,this has nothing you've not seen a million times before, i suggest you keep looking.

Nazi Occult Gone Wrong

[shawnblackman · 5/10 · 3 September 2017]

Some girls stay at a house for the weekend that has a few issues. The previous owner was one of Hitler's aids who escaped to the States. He had an amulet sent to him that was stolen from the French that would feed of hatred and fear. Long story short he kills his daughter and his wife kills him. This leaves two angry ghosts buzzing around the place. It's going to be a long weekend.

This one has a cool little back story but seems to keep the horror mild. Some neat effects are done with the ghosts which of course come with the jump scares. Mostly borrowed ideas all throughout the film but it still entertains. David Naughton pops up at the start as the new owner of the house. It could have been a lot darker of a film so we might have to wait for a remake.

5 violent dragging sessions through the house out of 10.

Just terrible

[danspgproaudio · 1/10 · 3 September 2017]

The first 10 minutes set up the back story and then we get nearly an hour of nothing. I was going to say nearly an hour of character development but its not, just teenage girls chatting drivel for over 50 minutes. Finally we get to the horror that the trailer showed us. Sadly its brief, ripped from other movies & you don't care what happens to the characters. Go watch something else.

2/10 for first 20 minutes

[edgy-827-486965 · 2/10 · 2 September 2017]

Not bad at first, and very lousy at second half (its about hour when 40 minutes totally waste of time), then BOOM - we have tons of copy-paste horror scenes from other movies and shorts like "The Grudge", and that famous short with doppelganger (I think based on one-sentence horror- story) and many others. I don't't know what a next level laziness is this, but it looks like plagiarism. In camera department and sound - its okay, but... well, its not good movie at all.

Tricked by The Trailer!

[J-Kidin · 2/10 · 17 September 2017]

Thanks to some decent editing... or actually the one scene that got my attention, of the little girl under the bed ... I fell for renting this movie. Boooo. I really thought it had potential. But I was wrong. The writing for this movie was insanely horrible... like written by a 5th grader horrible... and definitely not by one of those 5th graders that people try to see if they are smarter than.

The acting was slightly better than the dialogue (which wouldn't take much) since I will give them the benefit of the doubt that they didn't have much to work with. Just for an example, the child actor actually yelled out her own name when calling to the babysitter, and because I thought I was mistaken, I put on subtitles and verified... yup, she sure did (and they left it in?).

The story could have actually been interesting but they decided to go another route.... bore us and anger us for actually paying to watch this poop. Also there were some funny holes or questions at the end of the movie that made you go... what the heck? I gave them an extra star for the scene in the movie trailer.

Don't waste your time or money.... really not worth it.

******** Maybe Spoilery, so just in case, don't read the next bit***

The What the Heck, was how could the lead character, who went on about her great friends during the first half of the movie, suddenly not give a crap about what happened to them. She found one friend but then had the attitude -- "F the rest of those guys... we really weren't that close!". Yeah I can see why she didn't pause or turn around when her "friend" the handyman got hauled into the house, since they definitely weren't that close. But not even wondering about anyone else? And just running away like "F this, I'm out of here!", Kinda funny actually. Stupid, but slightly funny. So the last 6 minutes are unintentionally funny due to crazy bad dialogue and a character that went from so sweet and caring to F u all I am saving myself. Also, they showed the grandmother, like she was going to be significant, said she flatlined, showed her in the mirror for a second and never did anything or said anything about it during the rest of the movie. What a waste of film. The amulet wasn't even searched for or mentioned except once near the end. The writing in blood on the wall was never translated from German and last we saw one of her friends, it looked like she was trying to figure it out. You never even know what happened to the other friend at all after she went to bed. Seriously, both those girls are probably going to wake up tomorrow and wonder why their good friend burned rubber, leaving them to die. I expect there to be awkward moments of silence when they meet up again, and perhaps they will rethink their friendship with this selfish B.

Avoid this cinematic disaster!

[gothic_magicien · 1/10 · 28 September 2017]

Five words: The trailer is completely misleading! This movie is just plain awful! From the moment it started, I had no idea what was going on. When I thought it was finally getting good, it started going downhill. The acting is HORRIBLE and it's your typical college graduate trope. Please do not waste your time with this movie!

Yet another low budget horror atrocity

[Hayden-86055 · 1/10 · 7 June 2020]

This actually started off pretty decently, with a nice setup and decent if admittedly over-acting. Unfortunately it quickly gets terrible, the film wasn't even entertaining and I felt bored a lot of the time.

The main actors were pretty bad, but I've seen worse ,which is saying something, and the main monster only appeared in one scene at the end (and he was by far the coolest), the plot also makes no sense; some killer Nazi nonsense.

1/10: Very bad and not even fun

Don't do it

[rnrproductions · 1/10 · 16 November 2020]

It's bad. That's it. Bad. Every horror trope put into one film, just cut and paste horror movies together and you have The Hatred. The dialogue is fake and inorganic. The plot so basic, it's like somebody played nazi zombies and was like let's do that but ghosts. Maybe it could have been better without the nazi parts. Maybe not. The world will never know.

gross

[la_ultima_esperanza · 1/10 · 19 September 2018]

This was far beyond the worst horror film ever.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Interesting and creepy.

[ravenhair702 · 8/10 · 2 September 2017]

My wife and I sat down to our usual horror movie night. She showed me this trailer called the Hatred. Looked good so I said sure. What the hell. This movie had a solid back story and really gave a firm look as to how this house came to be so dark and scary. Typical start to a horror movie though. 4 collage girls come to stay at their professors place and babysit their daughter for the weekend...only to find out it's haunted and they find out clues about the house throughout the movie. It's interesting and it keeps you guessing which of the collage bimbos are going to be killed off first. Not an Oscar winning movie but it was entertaining to say the least. I'd give it a try.

Not a bad movie

[emmalina-57480 · 7/10 · 2 September 2017]

I'm not a normal reviewer but I got too say I liked this film there are a few plot holes but I don't want to be one of those who ruin it all I can say is there are family connections those who watch will understand these are never concluded I won't say because I want you to watch the film but those who do understand will make the same conclusion the acting isn't that bad especially from the female lead I thought this would be to be honest cap was pleasantly surprised not loads of gore but a nice CEO ghost story

Terrible acting

[zoeaitchison · 1/10 · 25 August 2021]

Looked forward to this for so long, as with most "horror" films the trailer made this flop look worth the time I lost watching it. Zero atmosphere just a bunch of girls in a house face a rubber monster and an apparent ghost which looks like a very poorly painted mask. My advice.... go wash your floor with a tooth brush or cut your lawn with a pair of scissors, it'll be a more interesting use of your time.

Just NO!

[szurobaloo · 2/10 · 2 September 2021]

Industrial waste. Boring, the story has no meaning, the script is poorly written and the "actors" are simple amateurs. 👎

The more you watch, the dumber you get

[VickiTooCool · 1/10 · 11 April 2019]

I would give this a negative number score if I could. I gave it a one star ONLY because the trailer for it intrigued my balls off. Other than that it was a total festival of suck. The beggining alone made me think I was watching the wrong damn movie. The set up was too long, too boring and by the time it was getting "scary" the movie was almost over, my god, kill me now it was dumbbbbbb. Don't waste your time.

F'ing Awful!!!!

[jehramyforks · 1/10 · 24 September 2017]

This motion picture atrocity did do one thing very well. It made me and the small group of people I watched it with, LAUGH. We re-watched scenes several times with genuine confusion as to how that particular scene made it through the editing process, which brings me to my next point. Was there an editing process for this movie? The Director for this waste of film is described as "an award winning writer/director". They must be referring to an award unrelated to film. Class Clown in Middle School? Or maybe voted Most Likely to direct a shitty horror movie someday? While scratching my head I did 23 seconds worth of research and found that he has directed NOTHING you or I have ever seen or would want to see. It's dumpster fire after dumpster fire on his IMDb list. This particular movie made me wonder, out loud, How the F$@# does a professional in this industry watch the final cut of this movie and think to himself, "BINGO!" If I am involved, in any way, with the making of this turd, I would be ashamed and utterly embarrassed. Next...this may be harsh but let's just keep this honest. I assume the little girl in the movie is related to a producer or someone that wrote the tiny check that must have been needed to make this bucket of vomit bc her acting skills are non-existing and sorry she's like nails on a chalk board. Same goes for the 4 older girls in the film. They all suck. Which is Ironic because that's probably how they got the gig. Our original hypothesis was that they were all 4 trying to move away from the porn industry. To say their acting skills were on par with that of adult film stars would be an insult to said Porn Stars. I saw the estimated budget was $800k...thats how much the set must have cost bc if anyone in that movie got paid to "act", someone had their pants pulled down. Please if you were involved in making this movie, quit the business immediately. You are wasting valuable days not doing something you could be good at while simultaneously destroying someone's hopes of watching a good horror movie. I almost gave it a 2 out of pity but I just can't lie about something this important.

Not even worth a REDBOX rental

[jaxtonylibra · 1/10 · 3 September 2017]

Movies like this are the reason I don't , as a rule, let NETFLIX or REDBOX pick my next movie choice. Just awful. The "acting," the pacing, the tired plot, the horrible production. Andrew Divoff (barely) saved it from being a total 0-star movie. Avoid it. You know it's a bad movie, when you scream at the screen, "OMG, kill the little girl, already!" I did. Repeatedly. Not because it was a valid way to destroy the evil, but because she was SO annoying. I've seen high school plays with better performances.

Just don't.

[mbbryant2010 · 1/10 · 31 August 2018]

The time you took to read this is less than a waste of time than watching the movie. You can do better than this movie. Just continue to scroll pass even if Netflix keeps trying to reccomend it. I wish I did. Save yourself. It's too late for me.

You will feel hatred...for this movie

[t-jure · 2/10 · 1 November 2021]

The plot of the movie is simple and you've seen it a thousand times: 4 young girls go on a trip and stay in an old house in a countryside where murders happened some years back. And at first night (surprise, surprise) strange things start to happen.

Really bad acting, stupid dialogues and most basic plot. An hour and a half feels like forever. Should be banned to make such movies.

Loved being scared by The Hatred

[debra_welan · 9/10 · 24 September 2017]

if you love scary films this will keep you on the edge of your seat. So glad I watched during the day, I would have had nightmares seeing it at night. The Characters are all really wonderfully developed and it was really beautifully shot, making the most of the beautiful location. Have a fun scary time!

Ok B-horror movie

[TdSmth5 · 6/10 · 18 November 2018]

In the intro credits we learn that after WWII, Nazis escaped to other countries, some even to the US.

Next we meet one such Nazi living out in the American country with his wife and daughter while he spends his time fumigating the crops. The teenage daughter is home-schooled and isn't allowed to go anywhere or do anything because the father is strict and things there's just evil out there in the world. He also keeps in touch with some other Nazi who sends him memorabilia. One day he gets an iron cross which was dear to Hitler and he stashes it with some more stuff he's got in a walled-in room. When the daughter gets rebellious he drowns her by accident. The mother doesn't take it too well. This intro lasts a long 22 minutes.

Now, in the present, we meet some 4 girls who make a trip to the family house out in the country, yup the same house from the intro. They also have to watch a little girl who lives there while everyone else is gone. For some reason there's some locked room in the house with old clothes. During a picnic one girl wanders off to the barn and is attacked by something that's trying to drown her. The little girls starts mentioning someone named Alice. While playing hide-and-seek two of the discovers discover the Nazi stuff including he iron cross. The girls start investigating and find out everything about the family living there years ago, about the girl who died--Alice, about the iron cross. By now Alice's ghost start appearing through the little girl that is sleeping. And the ghost is angry. So the girls will have to confront it.

The Hatred is better than there score here would lead you to believe. Sure, it's a B-horror movie with some acting, direction, and editing issues here and there. But the fundamentals for a good horror movie are there. Production is solid and the story offers a combination of elements that we've seen before. The victim's ghost who wants to be discovered, the item that stores hatred, the mission of having to face one's fears. That said that none of these receive enough focus, rather they are just excuses to move things along. This business with the iron cross is left entirely hanging in the air for no good reason. It's mostly a movie without any males in it as is standard these days in Hollywood. The girls do a good job for the most part, but they're not allowed to do much really. Cast and characters are rather non-descript. Bayley Corman is lovely though. The creature is well-made and creepy. I was going to say that horror works best rated R and that it's more difficult to make PG-13 horror. But then The Hatred has been rated R for no reason I can discern. It's actually a very mild PG-13 I would say.

Sure The Hatred can get a bit boring, but it's still a movie worth watching mostly for the potential that wasn't realized entirely.

I have alot of hatred for this movie......

[KoolCatReviews · 2/10 · 17 September 2021]

Not just for the plot or the acting. But I just generally dislike it as a film. It feels like they lacked the effort to make this. There is nothing scary about the movie apart from the acting and the characters make the worst decision possible. Really this is bad but not even in a good way. The only good part is the main villains acting.

Worst horror film I have ever watched

[mariabalasoiu · 1/10 · 5 April 2022]

I am a huge fan of the horror genre and many films disappoint .... But this one ... this is just atrocious. I literally thought I'm watching a really bad parody of a horror movie made by some untalented film students that didn't graduate yet ... what on earth ... how could this trash be on Netflix ? Literally anyone could direct, act and produce better than this film. I did not believe in any Actors ... the whole film was just a joke.

In Death We are Free

[nogodnomasters · 3/10 · 3 September 2017]

The first 22 minutes gives us the background to the farm house....former Nazi, Hitler's Iron Cross amulet, and a murder or two. Enter present day, 4 college girls spend a weekend there with young Irene (Shae Smolik) who talks to the ghost in the house. Regan (Sarah Davenport) the billed star, set up as the final girl, leads the group. She is named after the Exorcist girl and doesn't own an eyebrow tweezers This is a typical nasty ghost haunting trying to be something it is not. The Nazi additive did more to take away from the tale than add to it. The dialogue was forced and not well conceived. Who the heck was Paul anyway? The horror build up lacked horror. Not much in terror or even jump scares. Sound track didn't do much. Girl dragged across floor becoming old. Double jointed ghost-old. Did they "home school" in 1968?

Guide: No swearing sex or nudity.

First and Third Act Salvaged Film

[vacantskies00 · 5/10 · 23 November 2017]

Out of the gate, The Hatred sets up solid ground work. Part Apt Pupil, part The Conjuring, a decent backstory opens up the first act. As opposed to relying on flashbacks, this film plays out the horrific history of the locale and story. Post-Nazi America in a small town and the secrets that ensue.

The second Act only exists to guide us into the present day. Sassy, texting, little to say to each other modern day females visiting the haunted house in question. While trying to create strong, independent women, the script merely calls out the older male sensibility of what we think young adult women talk like. Merely hamstringing our female cast to become stereotypes trying to be more than what was written for them. Which is sad, because the actresses really try to create a sense of friendship, love and trust. However, the groundwork is downtrodden and stale.

The last act finally brings the scares and suspense. While unapologetically and rituallistacly off camera, killing off the cast; the final moments with our lead and the child are decently executed. The moment perpetuated in the films trailer is very effective and inventive for an otherwise stale and often imitated genre.

Overall, the film had a decent cast and a solid plot. The downside was the lacking second act and lowly accommodating budget. If that third act, trailer based twist on the supernatural played throughout this film, it would've been one for the books.