I went into this film knowing very little about it, only the synopsis on here and the rating of 6.4 it had from 160+ people, this has since plummeted and rightly so.
I didn't watch the trailer as I didn't want anything spoiling but boy do I wish I had done.
Most of the reviews on here were glowing 10 star reviews from people who have only opened an account to post this one review, so I knew straight away that most of these were plants, it's kind of expected on here from low budget indie films these days. I generally ignore all of these and go straight for the more honest reviews written by people who have been a member for over a year and have written a good few reviews. And if you go by this logic, then you'll see what quality this film really is.
I'll give credit where it's due here, there was a couple of good ideas in this film that could have worked had they have been done correctly and the twist ending, even though I saw it coming a mile away, was fairly satisfying but that's pretty much it as far as positive things I can say.
The acting in this flick is beyond atrocious, I honestly haven't seen acting this stilted, this wooden and lines delivered in such a cringeworthy fashion in a long long time.
The main girl, though very pretty, just can not act, some of her line delivery is awful and at no point does she come off as anything other than someone 'acting' The Indian friend she has is even worse, not only can she not act for toffee but when she speaks, she just stares off into the distance like there's just no one home. There's no expression on her face whatsoever. You'd think from what I have said that these 2 are the worst actors in this film but you'd be wrong.
There are scenes involving a police officer questioning people and another with a headmistress that are painful to watch. The acting from these 2 is probably the worst I have ever seen in a movie, the headmistress especially.
The only people in the movie that even come close to pulling off any kind of performance are the black lesbian friend, the religious scorned wife and her nerdy son, everyone else are awful.
There's not one character in this film I cared about and it was just so utterly boring and dull. A vast majority of this 2 hour monster is spent watching young girls talk and make craft projects, nothing happens to excuse this run time. There's literally one scene at the start of the film and one at the end, the rest of it is talking, young girls relationship issues, a bullied boy, a mother who's upset and hallucinating because she thinks her pastor husband is having an affair, more young girls talking. Oh, and there's a window cleaning and sweeping up montage that goes on forever. It literally is just scene after scene of a kid washing the same windows, sweeping up balls of paper and looking into a toilet with a plunger, it's tedious.
There's about 5 different plot threads that go absolutely nowhere, only there to serve as red herrings for who the killer is.
Some of the action scenes (and I use that term loosely as there's like, 2) are hilariously bad, man in a mask with a knife grabs weak young girl and stabs her in the leg, she kicks him and runs off to the bedroom, looks around the room, runs to the window and looks around outside, hides under the bed and looks around the room again and all this time, the man with the mask is ONLY JUST getting to his feet. So this young girl gave him 1 kick to the chest and it put him down for 5 minutes??? And to make it worse, she does the same thing again a few minutes later, it's woefully staged.
And now lets get to the absolute worst part of this film, the writing. Seriously, the dialogue in this movie is so bad, it's so eye rollingly awful that it's no wonder none of the actors could give any kind of performance.
Some of the dialogue and how it is written just baffled me, people don't talk like this, people do not interact with each other in the kinds of ways they do in this film, most of the lines of dialogue are just bizarre.
And just one final note, as with everything that seems to come out these days, this film has a check box of things that absolutely have to be in a movie these days to jump on the diversity train.
White girl with a black boyfriend CHECK! Indian or Asian character CHECK Lesbian or openly gay character, usually with short outlandish hair and tattoos CHECK Horrible redneck drunk white male character who just does nasty things for the sake of it CHECK It's getting boring. You can represent different groups of people in media without trying to shoe horn one of each stereotype into EVERY movie that comes out.
Overall, this film is bad, it's really bad, it's cheap looking, has some awful camerawork, sound design is all over the place, it has some of the worst acting you will ever see and the writing and dialogue is just beyond a joke. It's overly long, poorly edited, boring as hell and was just a completely joyless watch.
Do yourself a favour and avoid this one, there's far better Turkey's to enjoy this Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Oh and family members and friends of the production staff, please feel free to downrate this review like you're doing with most of the 1 star reviews on here, my life doesn't become any more negative because you gave me a thumbs down on the IMDB, so click away, this film is utter crap and I stand by everything I have said :)
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