The Hatred (2017)
Even after watched this movie, I find it hard to believe that it is a movie that managed to get released in 2017. If you like your horror generic and driven by two sentence horror stories from old reddit threads and you're really into Nazi plotlines, I guess, then this is a hoot. The problem is that this is a whole movie built around one scary shot - a scary shot that has been explored before, and that is shown in the trailer - and it spends the rest of the run time not knowing what to do with itself.
Nearly half an hour of this movie from the beginning set up a backstory, wherein an overprotective father (did I mention he's a NAZI?) tries too hard to keep his daughter sheltered. It is the kind of thing that overexplains and leaves no ambiguity for the audience, so that when the modern day characters are undergoing spooky happenings, we all immediately know about the Nazis and the daughter and the history that the characters are exploring. Speaking of characters, it's generous to call them that: the four college graduates who are minding this big house and former Nazi residence are indistinguishable beyond hair colour. They are also babysitting for the daughter of the house's new owners? But one of the girls - Reagan - is going to move out here? But she considers the owners to be like parents to her? Also her grandmother is dying? I'm at least 90% sure that at no stage did anyone edit the script, or at least give it a read through for consistency after rewrites. Characters pop up for single scenes and then vanish or say lines of dialogue that should be pertinent to the plot but never are - what is any of it building to? Why do they even bother with subplots?
If you're looking for a fun bad movie to watch, do a few quick checks. Is all of your exposition delivered by consecutive phone calls a character receives in her first on screen appearance? Does the main message seem to be "Nazis are evil and you shouldn't store Nazi memorabilia"? It's a good message, but it doesn't neccessarily make for a good movie. For a movie that hates Nazis so much, I wish it were a better one.
Rating: 2/10
Nearly half an hour of this movie from the beginning set up a backstory, wherein an overprotective father (did I mention he's a NAZI?) tries too hard to keep his daughter sheltered. It is the kind of thing that overexplains and leaves no ambiguity for the audience, so that when the modern day characters are undergoing spooky happenings, we all immediately know about the Nazis and the daughter and the history that the characters are exploring. Speaking of characters, it's generous to call them that: the four college graduates who are minding this big house and former Nazi residence are indistinguishable beyond hair colour. They are also babysitting for the daughter of the house's new owners? But one of the girls - Reagan - is going to move out here? But she considers the owners to be like parents to her? Also her grandmother is dying? I'm at least 90% sure that at no stage did anyone edit the script, or at least give it a read through for consistency after rewrites. Characters pop up for single scenes and then vanish or say lines of dialogue that should be pertinent to the plot but never are - what is any of it building to? Why do they even bother with subplots?
If you're looking for a fun bad movie to watch, do a few quick checks. Is all of your exposition delivered by consecutive phone calls a character receives in her first on screen appearance? Does the main message seem to be "Nazis are evil and you shouldn't store Nazi memorabilia"? It's a good message, but it doesn't neccessarily make for a good movie. For a movie that hates Nazis so much, I wish it were a better one.
Rating: 2/10
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