Didn't like the start, immediately shied away from gore and kept it offscreen. I already didn't have high expectations so that didn't help. Few jump scares but none of them scary. I was curious about how it was gonna go because there weren't too many people to kill off, it was just one couple. The guy had asthma and the girl seemed lovely and naive. Very easy targets. And because it was just two people it felt like it was dragging along trying to stretch the plot.
The movie failed to create a scary, tense, or suspenseful atmosphere. Spending time with the couple didn't make me care or root for them; their love story felt cookie cutter and commercial-like. There was a guy who seeemed to be having a blast in the theatre though, he wasn't scared he was just laughing his ass off, especially at the creepy kids. Everybody walked out during the post credit scene, like they saw it start playing but didn't care lol.
Some things didn't make sense - people appeared and disappeared quickly and randomly, and while the wood was creaky, the masked attackers moved in complete silence. It was unclear if it was just a town slasher or if something supernatural was happening too. It was pretty silly, like the characters should've had better decision making And it shouldn't have taken that long to actually catch them. The deaths were so disappointing, and so was the whole movie. If they plan to make a franchise out of this, the next one needs to be bloodier, with more convincing characters, truly frightening strangers, and better fight or flight scenes.
I was also confused about the identity of the 'strangers.' Were they the couple from out of town or the people in masks? The couple was being hunted by strangers, so was the movie about "we kill strangers" or "we got killed by strangers"?
The movie failed to create a scary, tense, or suspenseful atmosphere. Spending time with the couple didn't make me care or root for them; their love story felt cookie cutter and commercial-like. There was a guy who seeemed to be having a blast in the theatre though, he wasn't scared he was just laughing his ass off, especially at the creepy kids. Everybody walked out during the post credit scene, like they saw it start playing but didn't care lol.
Some things didn't make sense - people appeared and disappeared quickly and randomly, and while the wood was creaky, the masked attackers moved in complete silence. It was unclear if it was just a town slasher or if something supernatural was happening too. It was pretty silly, like the characters should've had better decision making And it shouldn't have taken that long to actually catch them. The deaths were so disappointing, and so was the whole movie. If they plan to make a franchise out of this, the next one needs to be bloodier, with more convincing characters, truly frightening strangers, and better fight or flight scenes.
I was also confused about the identity of the 'strangers.' Were they the couple from out of town or the people in masks? The couple was being hunted by strangers, so was the movie about "we kill strangers" or "we got killed by strangers"?