What should've been a fun and enjoyably bad movie is heavily tainted by its cash-grab of a title. It's true the real Wuornos was briefly married to a much older man who was a millionaire. This movie takes that one fact and builds a slasher flick around it with almost no other truth in it.
The writing is beyond terrible. The cast isn't any better. In the title role, Peyton List is all wide-eyed, snarling rage in hilarious ways. The…
This Scream rip-off is 100% derivative without any of the self-awareness or humor to pull it off. Neither does it have the amount of violence or creativity in kills to make us bypass its shortcomings. Throw in a generic score that almost never pauses and you get a movie that is pure annoyance.
I honestly believe no other director has their finger on the pulse of their fans quite like Tyler Perry. It's made him critic-proof. No matter what any of us wannabe experts write or say, we won't stop his train. The crowds that turn up to his movies eat up whatever he dishes out. The box office proves it time and time again. In case I actually needed proof I got it, live and in-person. I saw it in a packed…
Give an average 4 year-old a stack of magazines, a vat of glue to apply w/a spatula. Tell him/her to cut out a bunch of pics from each mag and glue as many on 1 sheet of paper as possible. Don't supervise. The result is this movie. A spectacular mess. And I love it!
