Director: Zachary Snygg
Year: 2026
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Desperate to fulfill her dreams, a woman gets involved in a crazy scheme to win a local beauty pageant against the wishes of her husband, but when a serial killer strikes the other participants in the competition, she must decide whether continuing in the pageant is worth it.
Review:
This was an outright terrible film that should become truly unwatchable. The central premise in the first half of this one has some promise, as the idea of this one is a bit intriguing involving a series of kills against the contestants in these competitions, and her trying to get in the best position to take advantage of everything happening around her. When the killer’s pattern is arrived at, and the whole affair is revealed, the concept of trying to determine whether there’s something to be said for the idea of beauty pageants itself is a solid enough idea that this hints at, especially regarding the lengths to determine whether it’s feasible to continue striving for these kinds of goals in this manner. However, the point here is completely undone by a wholly dragging, sluggish pace that renders everything far more dull than necessary by taking elements that aren’t needed here and including them despite earlier elements being far more worthy of being an endgame getting passed over.
Then comes the most egregious and utterly infuriating aspect here, as the kills, crowd scenes, and even actors are done by AI. The gore in principle is quite fun and manages to have some distinctive elements here should they have been accomplished through practical matters, but with the unnatural decomposition of the body and ill-advised structural defects that give away the concept overall, as seeing entrails fall out of a slit throat or witnessing the face contort in the opposite direction it really should are just some of the dead giveaways that the gore here is just awful. Crowd shots of various background players in identical clothing and mannerisms partaking in unnatural behaviors just take the obvious route of its creation method, and with the hazy digital feel of everything here, it all creates the kind of fake approach that it doesn’t need, which lowers this one to the point of being unwatchable.
Overview: 0.5/5
An infuriating, outright worthless AI-driven piece of dreck, this has no real value to anyone and serves little purpose, as even taking the AI creation out, there’s enough wrong here to leave this entirely problematic on its own. When the AI issues are added to the other issues here, it’s better to just leave this one alone and watch other films instead of this one.
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