Dreamcatcher (2021)
2/10
This dream should be let go
16 May 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Look, if you HAVE to denote in the end titles which one is "the killer," that probably should be a red flag.

Set during an indoor music concert, featuring DJ Dreamcatcher (seen on poster), who's kinda a #Deadmaus wannabe. Pierce (Niki Koss) is hanging out w/ BFF Jake (Zachary Gordon) would like out of the friend zone, watching a #horrorfilm. When sister Ivy (Elizabeth Posey) & BF Breken show up, they surprise our #movie watchers w/ tix to a sold out music festival, Cataclysm. So, they all trek out. Pierce rubs it in her ex Hunter's Blaine KernIII, who then turns around & calls in favors to attend too, bringing his new girl Raye Olivia Sui.

Things go very bad when Pierce is invited backstage w/ the DJ & manages to overdose & die. Josephine, the agent, forces everyone to cover up the death, requiring them all to come back on day 2 to get paid off (they are not getting paid off).

Raye, who claims to be a lawyer, is the 1st to go. Then we're in familiar slasher film territory, until Act 3, where the film cheats. I won't spoil it, but it's egregious. Not only is someone not dead, but there's now some sort of demonic possession! This is the last 10 minutes! & yes, I skipped over the outing of 1 character as gay all of a sudden because so does the writer/director Jacob Johnston.

I put it on my list to see because of Posey, who is good in "Heels." Go watch that. There's 95% less quoting of Hamlet in that show than there is here. Before you ask, no, Hamlet is not relevant to the plot at all.
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