Director: Victor Soares
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Psycho Family
Plot:
Heading out to a special house, a team of social media influencers streams their exploration of a haunted cabin, which will be perfect for their followers to watch them navigate and find themselves haunted by a series of past indiscretions, distracting them from the real threat in the house.
Review:
This was an utterly disappointing and underwhelming modern genre effort. The main focus is on some of the most vapid and annoying figures possible in this kind of scenario, with the hyper-excited, self-centered figures looking to ensure internet popularity at the sake of likability. There’s very little about who they are, what they’re at the house for, and the desire to keep the cameras recording on everything that happens at the house. Very few of the interactions here make for a fun time getting to follow them. It doesn’t help that there’s a constant stream of other unlikable factors that emerge over time with the group getting far more frayed with each other for lame indiscretions including secretly filming each other while trying to engage in private moments, using the shoot for ulterior motives without their knowledge, or just accusing each other of asinine factors that just don’t make them all that easy to follow along.
On top of that, there’s so little actual point to labeling this a genre effort. The scares are nonexistent with everyone running around yelling at each other the way they do, the live one-take format grows old incredibly easily due to the lack of action preventing it with doing anything extravagant or outrageous, and the whole thing gets wrapped up with the most predictable of outcomes possible that renders any attempt at surprise or suspense void with the whole thing given away so the film doesn’t have much genre interest going on. Further damaging everything is the layout on-screen, as the constant influx of messages and jabs by the commentators makes this a consistent headache trying to manipulate the on-screen action and keeping an eye on that to ensure there’s nothing hidden away in the form of easter eggs to what’s going on. By the time it finally clears up at the end, it’s too little, too late to save this one with all these issues.
Overview: 0.5/5
A general mess of a film in most regards, there’s so little to like here that it manages to remain quite underwhelming and unlikable pretty much throughout its running time. Those who are fine with this style or approach are the only ones to give this a chance, as most others out there should outright avoid it.
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