I feel like Disney is somehow involved. The whole time I was watching it I felt like it was a Descendents-style take on the Smile movies. More gore, yes, and jumpscares. But none of the creeping suspense in the first movie. None of the “race against the clock.”
It was just “Hey, this girl got stuck with the Smile thing. She’s gonna die.” And then you watched the whole movie and
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then she died
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I guess I was looking for a horror movie. You know, something scary. There was nothing scary about this movie (jumpscares excluded). Those dancers in her room, moving toward her with smiles on their faces? What the hell was that? That was the most high-school production value (with professional dancers I’m sure) scene I’ve ever seen in a horror movie. The “twists” in this movie were always pointless. There were HUGE blocks of time dedicated to scenes that didn’t add anything to the narrative or backstory or tension or anything.
Such indulgent schlock. Disney does “real” horror.
Yeah I mean it reminded me of an Herschel Gordon Lewis movie but for modern times