Straker17 #Horror is a movie that so desperately tries to be relevant, but falls short in so, so many ways. It is a movie that has many "artistic" features, many themes that it "explores", and so many terrible chracters to hate. The film attempts to be artistic, and in these attempts it tries to blur out the camera to "heighten" the "tension", and sporadically throws in shots of a supposed website that these girls use. However, this website does not look like any functional website, and I stared at it for most of the movie, attempting to figure out exactlky what it was and what purpose it served in the movie. And while you can justify footage of this website being thrown in, there is no way to justify the horrible design of it, and ultimately it just feels like the movie threw it in there hoping the critics would call the film "artsy". As stated before, the film has many different messages it attempts to get through with this film. The core one is bullying, however, it makes so many mistakes in the process. Firstly, the audience that is going to get the most out of the message have nobody to relate to. Preteens and teenagers who suffer bullying the most are the ones who can gleen from the anti-bullying message of the film the most. However, we are shown a bunch of rich, overpriveledged girls. These aren't the types of girls who are going to watch a film like this. Even the character that doesn't come from a rich background blends in with the rich kids. Second, you are given nobody to sympathise with because everybody is both a victim and a bully. Every single character (even the adults) join in the bullying to some extent. So where does that leave your characters? Who are you supposed to sympathise with? The answer is supposed to be the main characters, but after a while, you begin to wonder who the main chracter is supposed to be, and ultimately, you have nobody to sympathise with. The worst aspect of the movie by far is the character of Cat's father. When Cat gets lost in the woods after being thrown out of the house for how mean she is being, her father arrives at the house. He barges in and instantly begins shouting at the girls. Eventually one of the girls runs off into the woods to look for Cat, and he just lets her leave (which is what he is yelling at the girls for letting his daughter do in the first place). He grabs these girls by the head, and even by the necklace at some point, he slaps them, and even goes as far as to threaten them with a knife. And he isn't even the villain! The movie doesn't even work as a horror. The first hour and fifteen minutes is so heavily focused on the bullying drama that it forgets to create any ammount of tension. All of the killings of this "slasher" happen in the last twenty minutes And the reveal of the killer doesn't even make much sense. She kills people that have nothing to do with any of this. But why wouldn't it be her? After all, she is the meanest one who gets thrown out of the house. She is the one who is shown to be mentally unhinged from the beginning. So, why not her? Really there is no answer to this, but it would have been nice to have been offered some explanation as to why she killed everybody. If it's because she feels bullied, her rage is unjustified because she is the first one to be a true bully in the movie. It also wouldn't explain why she would have killed the couple at the beginning of the movie or even how she did it considering she was held up at school. It is such a shame considering these girls can act. They all portray themselves well as bullies and victims adding at least a small glimmer of realism to this movie, but their talent is completely wasted.

claudiamelania When I started watching the movie I really thought this may be an interesting, fresh perspective on horror movies but it was just bad. I'am a fan of horror movies so I've seen some really bad/pointless/boring movies in my life but not like this one. I hated everything about it, the music, the characters, the story, the ending and even the way it was filmed! I got the idea of teenagers/kids being so obsessed with social media that they would even kill for likes and be mean and lie to each other just to be cool but the storyline was so messy that even a good idea wound't make this movie decent. I wouldn't recomand it.

semichan-kokonut (Spoilers ahead!) Six preadolescent girls throw a "party" in an insanely huge glass house full of post-modern art pieces while playing a poorly designed game which is a cross between candy crush and Instagram. They're left completely alone and as twelve year old girls do, they're going to kill each other (and their parents). There, saved you some time.(+) At first, it looks like a vaguely interesting, visually appealing film (That is, if you forget the smartphone app part).(-) Doesn't live up to its own expectations. An overall design and visuals that could have been good if they were actually attached to a plot and were coherent. We're never really quite sure what is happening in there.The constant loud, strident noises and flashing images (also the msn emojis design) that come with the app that the girls are using are horrendous. It gets annoying right after the opening credits.Clichés land : The famous girl is blonde, has rich parents, is a c*nt. The fat girl is a fat girl, nothing else defines her because, you know, she's fat. Random average girls who suck up to the famous one. Who is that weird new girl ? Why did she even get invited ? Ugh !#Horror is a critique of our modern, social-network obsessed society. I get it. The thing is, it's hardly believable at any given moment, mostly due to the over-exaggerated acting and the characters themselves, who, strictly, are all clichés. This society hasn't messed up 12 year olds more than any of their predecessors did, unlike this movie suggests. If internet & smartphones certainly have given a tribune to ruthless behaviors and might have generalized them to some extent, teenagers have always been complex and harsh towards each other. Yes, twelve year olds can be depressed. Twelve year olds can be sociopaths. The edge that #Horror is trying to have has too little taste, in spite of a fantastic set and some spark of good ideas. So much could have been done, if only the synopsis was good. 2/10.

BA_Harrison A group of spoilt pre-teen girls (SUBMIT) gather at one of their homes for a sleepover, where they spend (SUBMIT) their whole time cyber-bullying each other and generally being nasty little beotches. Then someone (SUBMIT) does us all a favour by killing them.I'm going to keep this review as brief as possible (SUBMIT) because I have already wasted far too much of my time on this wretched movie. Lousy direction, horrible editing, gimmicky game graphics every few minutes (SUBMIT), and utterly atrocious performances, both from the young girls and from the (SUBMIT) more experienced cast members (Timothy Hutton shouts his way through the film and Chloë Sevigny sucks more than she did in The Brown Bunny).Tara Subkoff (writer and director of this mess), I've got a few (SUBMIT) hashtags for you: #whatapileofcrud, #bloodyawful, #totalwasteoftime, #thepits #itstinks (I think you get the picture…).