I have watched several B grade movies, but this takes the cake. The only scene worth watching is stolen from a 2 sentence horror story online. The acting is terrible, the writing is even worse. So much potential for a good movie, but it is thrown away. No resolution, and the explanations are thrown at you in very direct, horrid lines.

Like most bad/somewhat decent horror movies, it starts in the past, specifically 1968. It follows this family of three, with the father being a former Nazi. He gets a package containing some artifact that feeds off anger. Time jump to "Present Day" and we see our four main characters (Regan, Samantha, Betaine, and Layan). They drive around and say teenage girl things (with dialogue comparable to The Bye Bye Man). They head off to babysit a younger girl (Irene) in the Nazi guy's house. From here on out, there is little to no exposition or character development. The first act lasts way too long, with nothing interesting or even slightly scary happening. The Second Act also drags on, with no development happening. The girls do find that the original homeowner was a Nazi, but that's about it. Then the Third Act bomb rushes you with information. All the characters die, except Regan and Irene, and then it seems to be left ambiguous, for sequel potential. Personally I find this movie to be so bad that it's not even so bad it's good, such as: The Room or The Bye Bye Man. The Hatred is just not good. Very few shots were appealing and very few scenes were acted well. The visual effects are mediocre at best. The Score is very generic and the Sound Effects are bad stock sound effects. If you are able to enjoy this movie, congratulations, I'm happy for you, as for me, I did not enjoy it whatsoever.

Honestly, how do movies this BAD even get produced?? Some investor(s) thought this movie would actually make enough money to pay for itself with some profit left over?? Really? I wish I had $800 grand to gamble with on a terrible script with terrible actors. I want 90 minutes of my life back!! I will never trust Netflix's one-to-five star rating system ever again! Should have just shut it off when the time period switched to present day. Was kind of interesting up to that point, then fell in the crapper.

The Hatred starts out so decently with an interesting, historical and violent set up (nazism, abuse, murder), but takes a turn for the worse once the backstory is done. I felt like I was watching an entirely different movie. A much, much worse one. We switch to present day and follow shallow, horribly written and acted college girls whom we know little about.In an attempt to make them likable, the movie spends far too long listening to them talk about nothing of importance. They have no personalities, no motives beyond: "I'm a fun college girl. I like wine and boys. I oddly have makeup on constantly and know German out of the blue to service a flimsy plot." After a brief scare in the barn and hours of talking, the movie rushes to the detective and scare portions. Despite having such an interesting set-up with a Nazi father and murdered daughter seeking freedom, none of the demons/ghosts' actions make much sense. Then it isn't even that scary? Bad makeup effects on Alice. Alice's actual corpse in the coffin was scarier than demon her. Throw in some copied scenes from The Conjuring and Insidious (and I mean Copied) and not even scary jump scares (I didn't even blink at them), and you've got a bad movie. If you're not going to bother with a good plot/characters, at least make it scary. All in all, I was very disappointed because it started out SO strongly that I genuinely don't know what went wrong. Wish they had explored more of the original family and how the demonic effect would grow on the already terrible father like a rural 60s version of The Shining.