I love bad horror movies. Seriously, B horror movies are my favorite genre of movie, but this was just atrocious. If you told me it was the product of a mentally challenged 9 year olds fever dream; I'd believe you.
First lets get all the bad horror B movie stereotypes out of the way. The acting is horrible. I mean wooden, dry, lifeless. The main bad guy isnt too bad, over the top, but fine for a B movie. The directing is ridiculously bad for 2021. He doesnt know how to shoot night scenes so half the time you can tell its daylight...why not just set the scenes in the day then? The dialogue is horrible, but all this can be excused in a B horror movie.
The inexcusable. The plots a nightmare. The story centers on 2 teens on a road trip with their black stepdad when their car breaks down. Where were they headed? I dont know. Why is the stepdad black? I dont know, he is, it never comes up. I think that would come up. Im not saying its wrong, but probably would be weird that your dad dies and less than a year later your moms married to a black guy who claims to be a corn salesman? Theres some confusion in the car about how the mom met the black guy...its dropped and not brought up. We also learn the girl wants to be a doctor...never comes back up again, I think the writer forgot.
The two teens get deserted by their step dad as he goes in search of a new tire or something. Hes literally gone for 2 entire days...so during that time they befriend a kid who is a squatter in a nearby farmhouse. They instantly run into the local sheriff and instead of telling him, "Hey, our dads been gone for hours, our car broke down, can you help", they tell some lie for literally no reason. All this is to set up the plot where they fall in with some local teens and start partying with them. I get it, youre the writer, you got to get these two outsiders in with the local teens...but this is insanity.
Night one with the local teens they both black out and wind back up at the farm house. The girl awakes undressed in the squatters bed. Neither of the two teens know what happened. Dont worry...this will never be addressed again, ever in the movie. The teens then find out that the local squatter is good friends with the sheriff and the sheriffs bullying of him is a ruse or something. Again, while this doesnt make sense...dont worry, itll never be addressed again so dont think too much about it.
Then night 2 of partying, they get to a haunted hay ride and get off of it to enter a party in a farm house. Turns out the party is for some human taxidermiests. 1 hour of the most nonsensical, insane nonsense occurs. Highlights are thing such as black dad re-appearing out of nowhere in the middle of a corn field with a gun to help the male teen find the girl. Black dad then kills one of the guards and then enters the house...where he reveals hes been in on this the whole time. But like...whyd he kill a guard? Why did he fake the flat tire? Why not just drive them to the farm house? What was the point of any of this?
Movies so utterly frustrating in plot that you cant even laugh at the usual B movie tropes of moronic leads running into trouble over and over, bad acting, bad special effects etc...its a hard pass.
First lets get all the bad horror B movie stereotypes out of the way. The acting is horrible. I mean wooden, dry, lifeless. The main bad guy isnt too bad, over the top, but fine for a B movie. The directing is ridiculously bad for 2021. He doesnt know how to shoot night scenes so half the time you can tell its daylight...why not just set the scenes in the day then? The dialogue is horrible, but all this can be excused in a B horror movie.
The inexcusable. The plots a nightmare. The story centers on 2 teens on a road trip with their black stepdad when their car breaks down. Where were they headed? I dont know. Why is the stepdad black? I dont know, he is, it never comes up. I think that would come up. Im not saying its wrong, but probably would be weird that your dad dies and less than a year later your moms married to a black guy who claims to be a corn salesman? Theres some confusion in the car about how the mom met the black guy...its dropped and not brought up. We also learn the girl wants to be a doctor...never comes back up again, I think the writer forgot.
The two teens get deserted by their step dad as he goes in search of a new tire or something. Hes literally gone for 2 entire days...so during that time they befriend a kid who is a squatter in a nearby farmhouse. They instantly run into the local sheriff and instead of telling him, "Hey, our dads been gone for hours, our car broke down, can you help", they tell some lie for literally no reason. All this is to set up the plot where they fall in with some local teens and start partying with them. I get it, youre the writer, you got to get these two outsiders in with the local teens...but this is insanity.
Night one with the local teens they both black out and wind back up at the farm house. The girl awakes undressed in the squatters bed. Neither of the two teens know what happened. Dont worry...this will never be addressed again, ever in the movie. The teens then find out that the local squatter is good friends with the sheriff and the sheriffs bullying of him is a ruse or something. Again, while this doesnt make sense...dont worry, itll never be addressed again so dont think too much about it.
Then night 2 of partying, they get to a haunted hay ride and get off of it to enter a party in a farm house. Turns out the party is for some human taxidermiests. 1 hour of the most nonsensical, insane nonsense occurs. Highlights are thing such as black dad re-appearing out of nowhere in the middle of a corn field with a gun to help the male teen find the girl. Black dad then kills one of the guards and then enters the house...where he reveals hes been in on this the whole time. But like...whyd he kill a guard? Why did he fake the flat tire? Why not just drive them to the farm house? What was the point of any of this?
Movies so utterly frustrating in plot that you cant even laugh at the usual B movie tropes of moronic leads running into trouble over and over, bad acting, bad special effects etc...its a hard pass.