Josh Keown | Night Terror Novels 🧛🏻♂️’s review published on Letterboxd:
"Little bitches are capable of anything." mfw Hutton spoke in this film
-Dr. Michael White (Timothy Hutton)
Besides having one of the worst posters ever conceived in cinema, and having techno montages so chaotically colourful I suspect they gave the folks from the house across my street an epileptic fit, #Horror is nowhere near as bad as I was worried it might be. I mean, it's bad, but not like, hella bad (that's a word these sort of girls would use, right? Life is Strange did teach me how to speak like a hip teen, right?).
The acting and the script were really, really hammy a lot of the time, but it is in most slashers really, so that came as no surprise. Tara Subkoff proves a passable director, though if she continues to make films she should definitely seek someone else to do the screenplay, as it was awful. It's clear this was a 'passion project' for her, and I always admire that in a filmmaker; having a theme and pursuing it - in this case, examining modern social media and cyberbullying committed on it - it just isn't done well.
One last thing. It really does need pointing out that Timothy Hutton is absolutely off the chain mental. His scenery-chewing scenes toward the end are something else; the dialogue he is given is hilariously awful and he overreacts so much.
Also, it's probably just because I'm the Sherlock fucking Holmes of horror at this point, but I could see where it was headed from the get-go.
VERDICT; #Horror has some neat ideas and some funky scenes (particularly Sadie Seelert showing off some killer dance moves), and does a least attempt at tackling a real issue - the problem being that it does so with a distinct lack of any finesse.
1.5/5 or 3/10