... for a reason. This movie quite literally feels like a poorly written Last Of Us fan fiction prequel, right down to the noise these things make. If it were a better film, I might say it was an homage. But in this film, you know it's just a rip-off.
I also love the fact that we start the film with one character actually saying how the two persons of color are going to be "Better than those stupid white people" and then proceeds to maker the exact same stupid moves the "stupid white people" do in every. Single. Horror film. EVER. Split up? Check. Wreck the one way to communicate with each other? Check. Destroy the only means of contacting the outside world? Yep. It's all there, every beat exactly as you expect it. The only thing that feels off is the complete lack of horror in this horror movie. A few scenes of light body horror, a little blood and a couple of Clickers (the mushroom zombies from Last Of Us). That's pretty much it.
They do throw in a scene that's the director trying his hand at Altered States. So there is that. But at the end of the runtime, the only thing I was left with was a sense of wishing I had watched something else. I had heard good things from a couple of friends, but I think I'm going to have to have a conversation with them about what a good horror movie looks like. And I'm so sorry, but this is just not it. Predictable, derivative, and just didn't have any emotional impact.
I also love the fact that we start the film with one character actually saying how the two persons of color are going to be "Better than those stupid white people" and then proceeds to maker the exact same stupid moves the "stupid white people" do in every. Single. Horror film. EVER. Split up? Check. Wreck the one way to communicate with each other? Check. Destroy the only means of contacting the outside world? Yep. It's all there, every beat exactly as you expect it. The only thing that feels off is the complete lack of horror in this horror movie. A few scenes of light body horror, a little blood and a couple of Clickers (the mushroom zombies from Last Of Us). That's pretty much it.
They do throw in a scene that's the director trying his hand at Altered States. So there is that. But at the end of the runtime, the only thing I was left with was a sense of wishing I had watched something else. I had heard good things from a couple of friends, but I think I'm going to have to have a conversation with them about what a good horror movie looks like. And I'm so sorry, but this is just not it. Predictable, derivative, and just didn't have any emotional impact.