ridiculous rating

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This movie is obviously supposed to be social commentary more than horror. And this could be fine only it doesn't work out for me. It is about evils of technology but also about the evil rich (and of course white) society. I think it was overdone watching the girls showing how horrible they are. Them talking about their parents was a pretty eye rolling scene.When it comes to acting the young girls did a good job especially considering that for most of them this is pretty much the beginning of acting experience. Timothy Hutton who we know is a great actor seemed to be awful but this was just because of how his part was written. All that knife wielding at 12 year olds was just bizarre and seemed out of character. Chloë Sevigny was lucky she actually got a good character so she could actually show that she is good. Natasha Lyonne and Taryn Manning probably just know the director and wanted to give her their names as they are on screen for about 15 seconds. So yes it was pretty disappointing. Just a nice setting and camerawork which saves this movie from being a 1/10.

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

A group of spoilt pre-teen girls (SUBMIT) gather at one of their homes for a sleepover, where they spend (SUBMIT) their whole time cyber-bullying each other and generally being nasty little beotches. Then someone (SUBMIT) does us all a favour by killing them.I'm going to keep this review as brief as possible (SUBMIT) because I have already wasted far too much of my time on this wretched movie. Lousy direction, horrible editing, gimmicky game graphics every few minutes (SUBMIT), and utterly atrocious performances, both from the young girls and from the (SUBMIT) more experienced cast members (Timothy Hutton shouts his way through the film and Chloë Sevigny sucks more than she did in The Brown Bunny).Tara Subkoff (writer and director of this mess), I've got a few (SUBMIT) hashtags for you: #whatapileofcrud, #bloodyawful, #totalwasteoftime, #thepits #itstinks (I think you get the picture…).

Atrocious. *it's quite lengthy, so be warned* I don't have much to add that many of the reviews haven't said. If you are, by chance, stumbling onto mine first, this is what I have to say.So many elements of the supposedly haunted art in this house are so unbearably cliché; portraits and statues of people opening their eyes, things moving without explanation (most notably the pulsating egg-person), things moving suddenly without explanation, a light bulb flickering in a basement where a killer lay waiting, very generic 'psychotic/haunted/possessed' music throughout, etc. If the writers wanted to communicate that the haunted house was causing the girls to go insane, the sporadic shots of them dancing didn't do much to fill in what dialogue and the plot failed to. If the writers/director wanted to convey a message, the consensus (my opinion included) is that it was very much so obstructed and its meaning lost. If there was a takeaway, there was very little left over to think about; much of the message was exploited and stripped bare. For example, the viewer watches the beginning of the movie and formulates that these are (to an extent, it could very much vary from person to person) privileged teenagers who obsess over their phones and have little regard for other people. About halfway through, Dr. White (Cat's father) arrives at this person's house (I forgot who hosted the get-together, and it's irrelevant to my point), and lambastes the group for being self-centered, idiotic, mean, animal-like, etc.; the writers take assumptions that could've been made and uses them up until there is nothing left; there is no room to ponder on points trying to be made.I feel like the concept at hand (cyber-bullying and obsession over social media/smartphones) could've been worked into a horror/murder mystery much more skillfully than it was. The relation of social media and taunting to murder is not thought out well at all. The motive behind Cat killing everybody is that she wanted the avatar of her Instagram/Candy Crush portmanteau to have more 'likes' on her posts than anybody else, and the best way to go about doing that is to kill teenagers and post the photos of their dead bodies online, because that's really what people like to see? Weak and very unfathomable. Not the slightest shred of logic behind her train of thought. The app itself is also so very terrible in its design and concept (in my humble opinion); the only way I could see it gaining popularity within a group such as this is if an amateur app developer they knew made it. This can't be the case, however, because, according to the news story at the end of the movie, it had a following of many millions of people. The app and the concept behind it (sliding pictures together to get points? Why is a Candy Crush concept combined with the feature of being able to 'like' posts?) I cannot see getting a steady following; apparently people don't mind that it appears on the screen without having to turn your phone on, either (when it's locked in the walk-in safe). Also, it's popular to put a hashtag both in front and behind of a tag? Is it a murder/mutilation oriented kind of app? That would help explain why pressing the 'submit' button is followed by the sound of a gunshot or a guillotine (depends when in the movie you watch). If it is a murder oriented social media app, where more gruesome and mortal content is craved, surely Cat's posts won't be of any significance or specialty, like she believed they would? There are so many flaws within the design of the app in the movie.The man having an affair is named Harry Cox.If there were any redeeming qualities to a movie like this, it's that it's so bad that it can be mocked and laughed and enjoyed adequately just the same as a decent movie, right? WRONG. At least to me, it's not 'so bad it's good'; it's 'so bad it's bad'. Take, for example, The Room. It's a title that's renowned (or at least I would assume it is); why? Because when we watch the movie, the subtle things tell us that the writers, directors, anybody else involved, put in a genuine, whole-hearted effort to make a good piece of film. This is why it is funny, because of the failure to achieve their collective goal. When you watch #Horror, the same thing does not take place. Again, it is these subtle things; the writing, the things in the movie (take for example the social media platform (especially) and the artwork), the acting (most notably that of Dr. White), that tells you a different tale. To me, it appears that a whole-hearted effort was made to produce a movie aimed at gaining publicity as a movie so terrible it is ridiculous and contemptuous, hilariously so. When that happens, you can't sit back and laugh at its low quality when you know its doing its job; to instill a sense of "wow, that was terrible. How hilarious that somebody actually tried to make an Oscar contender". Examples I can think of are the social media app itself (seems an awful lot like it's mocking other social media apps, and poorly at that), and a desperate Mr. White's monologue in the woods, which features such gems as "Cat! Don't worry, I'll buy you a soup and sandwich", "I'll build a trap", and others (paraphrased). P.S.; I'd like to point out that, when the tale of the insane artist character was being told (his name was Ray something), there was talk about him going to a fortune-teller, and receiving news that there were 4 winds that converged on his property that bore spiritual significance. Other than Georgie saying 'that sounds like a fart' sometime soon afterwards, there was ABSOLUTELY NO further reference to this element of the plot.