This is the second of the 8 Films to Die For series that I watched, and after having a relatively good experience with the first (Unrest, which was pretty good), the second really frustrated me.

It's not that the movie is bad, it's...
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This is the second of the 8 Films to Die For series that I watched, and after having a relatively good experience with the first (Unrest, which was pretty good), the second really frustrated me.

It's not that the movie is bad, it's just not exciting in any way. There's hardly any build up, perhaps it's just knowing that it's a horror film, but you don't go from zero to sixty, it just seems to remain at a zero all throughout.

Don't get me wrong, there's blood, and gore, but never there's never a shock, there's never a scene where even a 13 year old girl would jump. It's boring.

The acting isn't terrible, either, but it's certainly not compelling by any stretch of the imagination. The dialog is pretty piss poor, as well.

As to the writing, everything about the film just rolls along, of course not well, but it clips along. The problem comes in when they try to introduce the twist, it's pathetic. It's sad, and feels as though they were just itching to be clever, but fall well short of the target.

All in all, I hated it. Not in the way that I've hated movies like The House of the Dead, but in the way that I would never watch it again. I really don't recommend it.