You won't be disappointed!

Overrated

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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.

RELEASED IN 2017 and written & directed by Michael Kehoe, "The Hatred" details events when four college-age women travel to their professor's new retreat home for a getaway, only to find out it has a wicked history.The 22-minute prologue is quite good with its link to WWII Nazism. The middle act, however, meanders with the relatively dull activities and conversations of the female guests and their little girl host, Irene. Something needed to perk up this portion of the film. Thankfully, three of the four females are easy on the eyes (Bayley Corman, Gabrielle Bourne & Alisha Wainwright), not to mention the stunning Alice in the prologue (Darby Walker).There is one effective scare, but the rest of the ghost shenanigans seem half-hearted and prosaic. In tone and quality it's akin to "Solstice" (2008), but a notch or two below and without the superb last act. The script needed more time to flesh out its potential.THE MOVIE RUNS 90 minutes and looks like it was shot in S. Cal, but with establishing shots from the Northeast in light of the Fall colors (I'm just guessing).GRADE: C

What a waste of time! This movie was boring and definitely not a horror flick. Lame! Acting was awful! There was no structure! Just a terrible movie!

Four college coeds and a young girl must survive the night in a farmhouse haunted by an ex-NAZI and his daughter in The Hatred (2017), written and directed by Michael G. Kehoe. The horror genre has long attracted up-and-coming filmmakers willing to take risks on shoestring budgets. This sometimes leads to cinematic masterpieces but often amounts to trash fit for the landfill. This film belongs solidly in the latter category.As The Hatred opens, Samuel Sears (Andrew Divoff), his school teacher wife, Miriam (Nina Siemaszko), and daughter, Alice (Darby Walker) are living on an isolated farm. Samuel was a high ranking NAZI who changed his name and fled to the U.S. after the Second World War. He receives a medieval relic in the mail, drowns his daughter for rebelling against him, and then dies for some reason while his wife passively looks on.Forty years later, recent college graduate Regan (Sarah Davenport) and her vapid sorority friends, Layan (Gabrielle Bourne), Samantha (Bayley Corman), and Betaine (Alisha Wainwright) drive out to her professor's new country home, where she will babysit his daughter, Irene (Shae Smolik). As strange things begin to happen, will they unravel the mystery of Alice's death and escape alive?The Hatred is possibly the worst movie I've ever seen. I struggled to find a single redeeming quality. Normally, with low budget pictures, it's unintentionally funny, or there's memorable dialogue, or a clever concept, or just some good old fashioned T&A. The Hatred had none of those things.Most of this film is spent waiting for payoffs that never arrive, and what appear to be key elements or plot points vanish as quickly as Regan's concern for her friends, who get picked off one by one in uninteresting ways.Regan's hospital-bound grandmother (Nancy Linehan Charles), credited as simply "grandmother", is one example. She appears to have a strong relationship with her granddaughter, and at one point seems to know she's in danger and tries to psychically warn her. I thought she was connected to the story somehow, like it would turn out that she had been Samuel's wife. But she just disappears after a handful of scenes. Why is she in the movie at all? Her character has no bearing on the plot.Likewise, Samuel plods around in an old gas mask, probably because it looks scary, and looms menicingly, as does his NAZI past. His stern and intimidating character, and his gift from Der Fuhrer, drives the story. Despite building him up as the main antagonist, however, Alice inexplicably fills that role while Samuel fades into the background.Someone reportedly spent $800,000 on this piece of garbage. Most of that must have been absorbed by the camera and effects crews because the film quality is deceptively professional. Unfortunately, The Hatred amounts to nothing more than a YouTube jumpscare short with a budget. The dialogue is awful, the plot cheap, and the acting atrocious. The NAZIs may be history's villains but at least Leni Riefenstahl knew how to make a compelling film.