Grimcutty

Good movie!

Good movie!

Good movie!

Good movie!

Good movie!

source: Grimcutty

Pretty watchable. Unique concept. The Grimcutty creature wasn't particularly scary, more cartoonish than anything, but I thought it was well-acted and the premise was symbolic of the negative influence some social media has on society. And on our young people in particular, . The movie was better than I thought it would be, and as a parent, I identified with the movie parents trying to protect their kids from the dark side of the internet. I think this movie was a a fresh look at the subject of the overuse of our phones, tablets and laptops these days. We tend to panic if we don't have our devices at our sides at all times, after all.

The amount of over the top ridiculous "acting" doesn't even put this in the comedy category as someone else mentioned. It's just pathetically terrible. Mom and dad are over protective bubble parents, worrying over everything online, but find their daughter with a massive 6 inch gash in her forearm that's at least an inch deep.... nope that's fine, just a few suture style bandaid should do it. Never mind that there's zero blood on any of the knives she supposedly used to cut herself. Also, who tf has a detox box, let alone half the town having them???? Her massive leap in logic about figuring out that it's the parents controlling it, is totally out of left field. Daughter breaks into original woman's house, finds a kid locked in a padded closet, mom comes along right after and rather than listen to her about being told the woman had a gun and was pointing it in her face... she smacks her in the mouth. Yup seems reasonable.... Saying all that, the camerawork wasn't terrible.

Just don't get it. It isn't really a horror film as such. It is much more a social commentary. It's actually very clever and is a very good take on what can happen when people over react and mass hysteria takes over (especially when those people are supposed to be in charge) - something that has happened at least a couple of times over the last two and a half years. It's well written, well acted and moves along at a good pace. Yes, there are elements of horror but this is needed to make the plot work. The creature, admittedly, isn't the best but it doesn't really matter as, as I have said, this is not meant to be viewed as a horror in the Halloween sense. I would say give it a go but don't limit your expectations, viewing it with an open mind as to what it is will open the entire experience up to you.

As much as I thought that this might be ok it seemed to be a wasted opportunity. Shannyn Sossamon couldn't save this mess even thought she was great to watch. The flip she made at the end was worth the wait. However The father of the main character was more scary than the over produced 'scary' villain. He was a painfully bad actor and never quite nailed the anxious parnet. Save your time and just give this a miss. Or better still watch the first ten minutes and then skip to the las ten. I felt like this made it bearable to watch and process. While this was a miss it does get points for diversity the main character were brown with non mainstream names. However I wonder if this was another stab at ethnic standards and 'controlled kids' I'll give it the the benefit of the doubt.