Let's start out with the best part and probably because Barney is a cosmetic artist. Great pig costumes. Good costumes all around actually, but the pigs were awesome for a movie of this caliber. The setting of the scenes and filming were really good too.
The actors were good. For what I consider to be a normal horror, you can't expect AAA actors, and that's part of what makes horror so good. Not gonna blame them for the story because that falls upon the writer.
---Spoilers, kind of, but this is where the movie fails---
The storyline though, blech. It really falls into the current horror movie cesspit which is a one-and-done show where the "bad guy" wins despite watching the protagonist overcome every obstacle up until the end. Every recent horror I watch is just a series of the victim trying to escape, getting really close, and then despite their efforts getting killed at the last point. It's annoying. Freddy gets killed in like every movie, but he always comes back. Frankly, all the good horrors have a villain who gets killed at the end. It's alright to have a villain win at the end sometimes, but it's pretty much 100% of the time now with any movie I watch. I don't get what the pull is for directors to get to a point where they have a full good movie, and then go "hey, let's erase all that character development and kill them instead." Like that is shocking. It's literally what the last decade of movies has been doing.
Lastly the stop animation at the end and beginning; what was that about? Was the director just showing off their skills? It really didn't add anything to the film, and felt pushed into it.
Overall, movie was decent, but like most movies in the past decade or so, you just get a sense they did a horror to make a horror film, and checked all the boxes like a machine.
The actors were good. For what I consider to be a normal horror, you can't expect AAA actors, and that's part of what makes horror so good. Not gonna blame them for the story because that falls upon the writer.
---Spoilers, kind of, but this is where the movie fails---
The storyline though, blech. It really falls into the current horror movie cesspit which is a one-and-done show where the "bad guy" wins despite watching the protagonist overcome every obstacle up until the end. Every recent horror I watch is just a series of the victim trying to escape, getting really close, and then despite their efforts getting killed at the last point. It's annoying. Freddy gets killed in like every movie, but he always comes back. Frankly, all the good horrors have a villain who gets killed at the end. It's alright to have a villain win at the end sometimes, but it's pretty much 100% of the time now with any movie I watch. I don't get what the pull is for directors to get to a point where they have a full good movie, and then go "hey, let's erase all that character development and kill them instead." Like that is shocking. It's literally what the last decade of movies has been doing.
Lastly the stop animation at the end and beginning; what was that about? Was the director just showing off their skills? It really didn't add anything to the film, and felt pushed into it.
Overall, movie was decent, but like most movies in the past decade or so, you just get a sense they did a horror to make a horror film, and checked all the boxes like a machine.