#Horror (2015)

#Horror is a movie that so desperately tries to be relevant, but falls short in so, so many ways. It is a movie that has many "artistic" features, many themes that it "explores", and so many terrible chracters to hate. The film attempts to be artistic, and in these attempts it tries to blur out the camera to "heighten" the "tension", and sporadically throws in shots of a supposed website that these girls use. However, this website does not look like any functional website, and I stared at it for most of the movie, attempting to figure out exactlky what it was and what purpose it served in the movie. And while you can justify footage of this website being thrown in, there is no way to justify the horrible design of it, and ultimately it just feels like the movie threw it in there hoping the critics would call the film "artsy". As stated before, the film has many different messages it attempts to get through with this film. The core one is bullying, however, it makes so many mistakes in the process. Firstly, the audience that is going to get the most out of the message have nobody to relate to. Preteens and teenagers who suffer bullying the most are the ones who can gleen from the anti-bullying message of the film the most. However, we are shown a bunch of rich, overpriveledged girls. These aren't the types of girls who are going to watch a film like this. Even the character that doesn't come from a rich background blends in with the rich kids. Second, you are given nobody to sympathise with because everybody is both a victim and a bully. Every single character (even the adults) join in the bullying to some extent. So where does that leave your characters? Who are you supposed to sympathise with? The answer is supposed to be the main characters, but after a while, you begin to wonder who the main chracter is supposed to be, and ultimately, you have nobody to sympathise with. The worst aspect of the movie by far is the character of Cat's father. When Cat gets lost in the woods after being thrown out of the house for how mean she is being, her father arrives at the house. He barges in and instantly begins shouting at the girls. Eventually one of the girls runs off into the woods to look for Cat, and he just lets her leave (which is what he is yelling at the girls for letting his daughter do in the first place). He grabs these girls by the head, and even by the necklace at some point, he slaps them, and even goes as far as to threaten them with a knife. And he isn't even the villain! The movie doesn't even work as a horror. The first hour and fifteen minutes is so heavily focused on the bullying drama that it forgets to create any ammount of tension. All of the killings of this "slasher" happen in the last twenty minutes And the reveal of the killer doesn't even make much sense. She kills people that have nothing to do with any of this. But why wouldn't it be her? After all, she is the meanest one who gets thrown out of the house. She is the one who is shown to be mentally unhinged from the beginning. So, why not her? Really there is no answer to this, but it would have been nice to have been offered some explanation as to why she killed everybody. If it's because she feels bullied, her rage is unjustified because she is the first one to be a true bully in the movie. It also wouldn't explain why she would have killed the couple at the beginning of the movie or even how she did it considering she was held up at school. It is such a shame considering these girls can act. They all portray themselves well as bullies and victims adding at least a small glimmer of realism to this movie, but their talent is completely wasted.

Holy hell! What a waste of a movie. There are so many things wrong with this that I have a problem knowing where to start. I suppose we can start with the glaring issue. This movie is a mix of Mickey Mouse Club, Scream, and To Catch a Predator. Its a movie that consist of 12 year old girls being stalked and slashed to death.Even though the basic plot of 12 year olds being brutally killed isn't something that I was overly excited to get to, it took what felt like an entire movie to develop the characters. The constant and sudden flashes of a cellphone was more than obnoxious after minute 15 of the movie.Just. Don't. Watch. This. Movie.

wow is all i can say there's nothing else to this but kids being absolutely stupid with each other through the entire movie there bashing everyone and taking selfies with stuff and every selfie u see its got that stupid (#) with it also wtf is with the screen crap with points an i watching a game or a movie i have no idea how else to point it out..... with that said avoid like the plague at all costs im glad i didn't pay anything but a bit of mins from my life to see this (thank god for netflix) i would give this a .1 star if i could

Wow just wow. I am amazed that #Horror has such a low rating of 3.5. Perhaps people are expecting a more straight forward horror story. While this film does have its flaws, I am so glad I didn't follow the negative reviews. Chloe Sevigny and Timothy Hutton give excellent and strong performances, so do the young ladies in the starring roles. I wish Natasha Lyonne and Lydia Hurst got more screen time. #Horror is definitely not a straight up horror film, it is more of an intense drama/thriller. There are horror elements but this is not what the film is about. This film raises questions about morality and how we treat each other as human beings. I do not want to give too much away, things take a little while to get going but there is a strong sense of foreboding and menace right from the get go. I would say that the low rating and negative reviews of this movie is totally unfair. There are 2 things that detract from the total impact of this film and it is those stupid animations that were used, also the fact that this was marketed as a true story. There are also a couple of annoying scenes where the girls have a fashion show etc, this really did not provide anything extra to the story. BUT do not let that put you off. For 1 or 2 minutes of annoyance, the rest of the film is very good and you should really see it for yourself before you make any assumptions. You will be pleasantly surprised. I for one cannot wait to see what writer/director Tara Subkoff comes up with next. She is one to watch out for in the future.