I...really, really don't know what I'm supposed to take away from this.
Because it wasn't funny, it wasn't scary, nothing about it strikes me as being particularly satirical, so what I'm left with is a dull attempt to ape The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is already a film I absolutely despise.
Ironically though, I would say (at least from memory) that this is slightly more tolerable than TTCM for me (pitchforks down please), ironically BECAUSE it feels like a failed attempt to ape that annoying piece of crap.
The reason I hate that film so much is that I find it incessantly annoying instead of scary, with its awful camera quality, grating sound design, and directing that can barely do anything interesting other than shove the camera into one weird object after another and hope it shocks you.
But I do understand why it works so well for so many people - it's precisely because of everything I just mentioned that the majority find it terrifying. So for those people, this film that tries to do that and ends up doing it worse makes it inferior, but for me, who is really annoyed by all those things, doing them worse actually makes it a slight improvement.
Only a slight one, though.
Because while I do think it's actually a pretty decently directed film, unfortunately the editing is doing most of the heavy lifting to make this nearly as annoying as TTCM for me. This entire goddamn film is spliced up with shots of completely random rubbish with wacky filters over it in between scenes, cuts, and sometimes even lines of dialogue, so much so that if you removed all that, I'd be willing to bet that you'd cut the runtime by a good ten minutes.
But even though it's not as badly directed as it could have been, and the acting is all pretty decent, it can't escape its plot as thin as the hairs below the nose of a 14 year old boy, or how obviously it's ripping off TTCM, or how it can't even start doing that until the second half (seriously the first 45 minutes of this are so BORING, and now that I think about it, the next 45 aren't much better).
Not to mention the music sucks, the characters are wooden, and it ruins its own attempted twist ending in its opening scene, so (I can't believe I'm about to say this) just go watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre instead. At least then you'll be watching a classic, plus if everyone I've ever talked to about it is any indication, you'll probably enjoy it a lot more than I do.
Because it wasn't funny, it wasn't scary, nothing about it strikes me as being particularly satirical, so what I'm left with is a dull attempt to ape The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is already a film I absolutely despise.
Ironically though, I would say (at least from memory) that this is slightly more tolerable than TTCM for me (pitchforks down please), ironically BECAUSE it feels like a failed attempt to ape that annoying piece of crap.
The reason I hate that film so much is that I find it incessantly annoying instead of scary, with its awful camera quality, grating sound design, and directing that can barely do anything interesting other than shove the camera into one weird object after another and hope it shocks you.
But I do understand why it works so well for so many people - it's precisely because of everything I just mentioned that the majority find it terrifying. So for those people, this film that tries to do that and ends up doing it worse makes it inferior, but for me, who is really annoyed by all those things, doing them worse actually makes it a slight improvement.
Only a slight one, though.
Because while I do think it's actually a pretty decently directed film, unfortunately the editing is doing most of the heavy lifting to make this nearly as annoying as TTCM for me. This entire goddamn film is spliced up with shots of completely random rubbish with wacky filters over it in between scenes, cuts, and sometimes even lines of dialogue, so much so that if you removed all that, I'd be willing to bet that you'd cut the runtime by a good ten minutes.
But even though it's not as badly directed as it could have been, and the acting is all pretty decent, it can't escape its plot as thin as the hairs below the nose of a 14 year old boy, or how obviously it's ripping off TTCM, or how it can't even start doing that until the second half (seriously the first 45 minutes of this are so BORING, and now that I think about it, the next 45 aren't much better).
Not to mention the music sucks, the characters are wooden, and it ruins its own attempted twist ending in its opening scene, so (I can't believe I'm about to say this) just go watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre instead. At least then you'll be watching a classic, plus if everyone I've ever talked to about it is any indication, you'll probably enjoy it a lot more than I do.