indigomontoya

A great premise and a good book. Could have been Booksmart meets The Exorcist. But Elsie Fisher is awful as Abigail which torpedos most of the film's promise and none of the cast are helped by a very lazy and poorly crafted script. The whole films feel very rushed, there's no connection to the main characters as most of the back story and bonding has been ditched I'm favour of getting to the horror elements faster. Which leads to the final strike against this film, in that it's about as scary as an episode of Scooby Doo. Constantly shifting in time between young teen/family friendly and adult. It just never really knows what it's doing. Amiah Miller does however deliver a good performance despite the bad material and myopic direction she's been given.

Too many thin skinned "men" and gatekeeping losers coming here to trash the show with paper thin reasoning and pseudo-intellectual nonsense.

It's perfectly decent. Doesn't change the world or do anything ground breaking. It's entertainment and too many people have fallen into this camp where everything is either "the best thing ever" or "you ruined my life and I'm cancelling you"....people aren't allowing for things to be "alright" or "decent".

So if you HATE a perfectly executed bit of mindless entertainment then for me it probably says more about you as a person than the quality of the show itself.

There is doing an homage and then there is borrowing wholesale from other material. This film is little more than a remake of "Taxi Driver" with elements (most notably the end) borrowed from "Network". In the case of "Taxi Driver" there are whole lines of dialogue, characters and scenes that are lifted from it and placed in this movie. Except the execution isn't as polished, the acting not of the same caliber and the story not as original.

Watch "Taxi Driver" and "Network", this film was made 40 years earlier and was made better.