#Horror
#Horror
NR | 20 November 2015 (USA)
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Inspired by actual events, a group of 12 year old girls face a night of horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity.

Reviews
TheLittleSongbird

Anything that aims to explore the subject and consequences of cyber-bullying earns respect. Cyber-bullying is a very relevant and tough subject, one that needs to be talked about and made awareness of more and dealt with more seriously than it is, considering the suicide rate that has stemmed from it. It does pain me to say this, because part of me really wanted to admire it because of the subject, but '#Horror' does not do a good job at all with the subject. Not only is it one of the most catastrophic wastes of great potential that has been seen in any film from personal experience, it is a real horror of a film on its own merits. '#Horror' is a complete failure at showing the full horrors of this subject, in fact it doesn't really do anything with it and the viewer is actually distracting by how badly every component is done to appreciate anything that the film says. For one thing, it is agreed that '#Horror' looks terrible. It is drably and too darkly lit and the photography tries to be clever, or seems to think it is, but is instead self-indulgent and chaotic. Worst of all is the editing, this gave me a headache and made my head swim and the film is lucky that it didn't cause a seizure. It is very obvious that this was a directing debut, because there is no style and there is a real sense of being ill at ease with the material and that there was no idea how to direct the film or what to do with it. Music-wise, it's over-obvious and intrusive. It never adds anything to the atmosphere and is even discordant with it. Sound is muddied. The script is awkward and never rings true, with a lot of ridiculousness and unintentional humour. It fails to say anything illuminating, it doesn't really say much at all. Learnt nothing and felt nothing, for such a subject that couldn't have been a worse thing to commit. As said, the full horrors are half-baked at best and not really explored, there is no tension, suspense or emotional impact. Pacing is a big issue, the film takes far too long to get going with a story that is mostly uneventful, and then the last third is very rushed.Felt nothing for the truly obnoxious characters, ones that are not developed at all pretty much and behave in a way that makes one hate them so much rather than empathise or relate, and the acting is incredibly bad with the more dependable bigger names used poorly that you forget they're even there.Overall, horrific. 1/10 Bethany Cox

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claudiamelania

When I started watching the movie I really thought this may be an interesting, fresh perspective on horror movies but it was just bad. I'am a fan of horror movies so I've seen some really bad/pointless/boring movies in my life but not like this one. I hated everything about it, the music, the characters, the story, the ending and even the way it was filmed! I got the idea of teenagers/kids being so obsessed with social media that they would even kill for likes and be mean and lie to each other just to be cool but the storyline was so messy that even a good idea wound't make this movie decent. I wouldn't recomand it.

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I Can't Believe It's Not Toast

I couldn't find a single thing I liked about this movie. This movie was the most cliché, lazy, boring, and confusing I've ever seen. A couple times the movie brings up a curse and the artwork in the main setting moves around(blinks and such), but this is never brought up in the main plot. The way the story is told is so confusing and backwards that it feels like this movie is trying to be original, but fails and sticks to predictable garbage and stereotyping. My biggest problem with this movie has to be with events happening simply to progress the story, not because it's a logical thing a character would do, but because they're lazy. For example, one of the girls randomly says "hey, I dare all of us to lock our phones in the safe" for no reason at all, and they all do it, resulting in them not being able to call 911 later on in the movie, when they're all getting killed. The way the killer is pretty strangely shoehorned into the last 30 minutes of the movie also feels really rushed. The characters sometimes completely change personalities whenever it's convenient for the story. The movie isn't even fun in a "it's so bad it's good" kind of way. It's painful to sit through, especially since it's about an hour an 30 minutes. In conclusion, #Horror fails at being a fun horror or a smart thriller, especially since it takes 1 hour for the movie to actually go anywhere in terms of scariness, and the writing was unpleasant and stupid.The girls taunt each other and are always bitchy, even when they're nearly killed by Cat's father. Don't waste your time on this. I really wish I hadn't.

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TheJuggernaut

Not often in life do you hope a group of children get hurt or attacked but this is one of those times. This movie seemed to reflect the girls attention span, it focuses on an idea for a few minutes then completely forgets about it. It references a four way wind point in the house that never has any bearing on the story. The loose backstory on the former owner seems to only serve to add mystery to the camera killers identity. Why are the artworks moving around if the story doesn't have a supernatural element to it? There are countless other questions but the other main one is the viewer constantly has to see this hashtag game of likes but no one explains how it works or what's it purpose is. At one point it looks like a tic tac toe of photos that earns a knife emoji after clicking three random photos in a row. Explaining the game would give a little substance to their addiction to it, but it only showed that Kat played it as a child for two seconds and that made her a killer.The ways these girls talk reflect the level of warmth their parents show them but is no reason to act that way yourself. They girls act more like their are on a forced bonding sleepover for bullies. Their conversations are just a back to back of insults that as others have mentioned, does not add any compassion to them being hunted down at the climax.The movie could have been a lot more interesting if it was about the old artist killing them off for being in his house or realising that a power in the house drives people to kill. Sadly it did not do that it just shows an hour of young girls pretending to be adults who ultimately choose to kill their "friends" for the hope of getting the most likes in their nonsensical game. (Last question - Since the main killer was not there earlier, who killed the dad and mistress at the beginning?)

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