Has anyone seen this?

It was not scary at all.

I posted a little rambling review up in a separate thread, but overall, I found the movie to have been aimed at kids, more than anything. A trusted movie review site I go to made it seem like the directors had bounced back to form since Livid, and that the second half of this movie was completely, and utterly INSANE. Add kids to the mix, and that the "inspiration" for this movie was the likes of Stand By Me and The Hills Have Eyes, I was entirely sold.

The movie starts off with a super intense scene, that essentially outdid anything Inside had to offer. It was one of the most shocking things I had ever seen, but looking back, the movie never lived up to what that scene had set up. From there, it's just a group of kids being kids, skipping school and doing their thing, and you get the one actual frightening scene of the movie where the premise of the movie unfolds (kids see a woman being dragged around). It's definitely some pretty good witness horror (like Blue Velvet), and there's a good chase scene.

But from there, the movie goes entirely inexplicable. I'm not one of those people that like to think out loud, guess killers, and point out major plot holes when I see them, but there is just NO WAY the movie could've unfolded the way it did, unless the creators of this movie were aiming it towards children from the get go. It seems like one of those stories an older sibling will tell the younger ones, full of inexplicable events aimed at scaring kids. That's it.

There's little gore/violence (aside for the beginning and the end), yet the violence at the end of the movie is extremely cheesy, compared to the realistic gore from Inside (I would compare it more to the violence in Kill Bill 1). The villain goes from looking cool (never frightening, despite the clown mask) to looking entirely STUPID. With the formidable mutant angle they were going for, this mutant would totally get his ass kicked by the big mutant from The Hills Have Eyes. He's all scrawny, naked, and looks like Sacha Baron Cohen. Without the original get-up, it's the most disappointing reveal since Anakin in the original Return of the Jedi.

Either way, the movie was corny, it wasn't scary, all the scenes cutaway at their climax, and it was just a legitimately bad movie. The villain is hilariously awful. If you ignore my warning, you'll see what I'm talking about when you see the movie. Please respond in this thread when you agree with me a few months from now lmao.

The movie sucks, if you thought the cops in "inside" were stupids wait till you see how they act in this putrid film. 3 out 10

I really liked it, although I am not a great fan of horro movies. The only thing that annoyed me, was the end. It was so absurd, that they killed the son, but not the father, the man who had just slashed two policemen. How can you already start hugging each other, while such a mad guy is still there, deploring his child, that was killed by the son of the persons, who are happily hugging each other in relief.

For me it would have been a good ending, if they had also killed the father, or, just for the purpose of still being able to create the last scene with him park, to have him escape from that place after his son was killed.

That was an absolute no-go for me. But I still liked it, it could just end better.