TheLittleSongbird Saw 'The Hatred, being fond of horror/thriller regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre) and being intrigued somewhat by the idea. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to reviewing it.Unfortunately, despite not reading any reviews purposefully before watching, am going to have to agree with all the reviewers who hated 'The Hatred'. A film that started off pretty good, but ran out of steam very quickly and rapidly got worse by a second half that makes one not want to keep watching. Never judge a film without seeing the whole thing and wanted to give 'The Hatred', so gave it a fair chance.Best thing about 'The Hatred' is the first twenty minutes, which start things off on a very promising and atmospheric note.Setting was also quite nice and spooky.However, so much brings 'The Hatred' down. The cast struggle to do much with so little to do and the direction is so phoned in and pedestrian, one gets the sense that the director showed no interest in the film at all. Too much of the soundtrack is intrusive and annoying, made worse by the excessive and obvious sound effects that just cheapens the mood. The film looks drab generally and like it was made in haste.Where 'The Hatred' most underwhelms is the writing and story. The writing is incredibly lazy, it's awkward in dialogue, very confused as a result of not tying things up or going into full detail and doesn't feel complete. The story suffers from a very limp pace after the first twenty minutes and gets slower and slower until an interminably dragged out second half. It further suffers from feeling too much like a short film stretched out with a lot of useless padding. A few of the characters are reasonably likeable but the inconsistent and illogical motivations bring them down. For a film billed as a horror, though it's more a thriller with horror elements, there is very little interesting and nothing remotely scary. They are too few and are far too predictable, anaemic and weakly timed to make impact, with the dull pacing and obvious sound effects cheapening them significantly. In terms of the thriller elements, 'The Hatred' doesn't engage let alone thrill, the film started off very well but feels wasted by how quickly everything runs out of steam. Worst of all is the ending, which is so abrupt, unresolved and incomplete that one struggles to even consider it an ending, the film just ends and leaves one scratching their heads in confusion and feeling cheated.Overall, the potential was there but the execution far from was. Really bad, unless you're curious about seeing it it's best to avoid this. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Ibaraki Ben The first ten minutes or so sets the story up nicely and and the backstory, but then you are left with about an hour of four girls waffling for no reason and nothing really related to the plot. The horror begins near the end showing what was depicted in the trailer. The horror scenes are taken from various other movies and lack any originality. There is no sense of fear for our heroines as nothing really makes them relate-able as there is no character development.The horror is solely reliant on jump scares and the poor acting of the college girls makes the scenes somewhat cringe worthy. Don't pay to see this movie. It simply is not worth it.

RandomFlux The opening scenes of the movie do a great job setting up a backstory. Brooding, filled with tense scenes and foreboding. Cut to present day. The rest of the movie is a cross between Scooby Doo and the Babysitters College Club.There's a lot of wandering around with wine glasses and pointless dialogue. It's like watching the shopping channel, but they aren't selling anything.There are fewer characters at the end of the movie so I assume things happen to them somewhere along the way. Whatever it is, it's quick, neat and tidy.Long story short, this film is slow and dull and I think they forgot it was supposed to be a horror movie.In closing, Andrew Divoff is too good for this film. He's the only thing about it worth remembering.

Green-Irish-Eyes Ludicrous story, wooden acting, rip-offs of numerous previous horror films. Not at all scary and, in the end, totally unsatisfying.Netflix had this as a "recommended film" for me -- boy were they WAY off. Don't waste your time.