Synopsis
Your mind is the trap.
A group of friends gather for a much-needed weekend getaway at a remote and historic hotel. Celebration turns into terror as one by one, each guest faces their own worst fear.
2023 Directed by Deon Taylor
A group of friends gather for a much-needed weekend getaway at a remote and historic hotel. Celebration turns into terror as one by one, each guest faces their own worst fear.
Deon Taylor Karicean Karen Dick Damien Douglas Heather Kritzer Roxanne Avent Shandra Dixon Omar Joseph Sean Miller
How did this turd make it to theatres? How? It was straight-up serving Tubi original. The entire production team really thought they were doing something unique and cool. They should actually be embarrassed.
A complete disaster congested with an incoherent plot, horrendous acting, character-less characters, extended stretches of nothingness, a supernatural angle they don’t embrace, and some weird messaging on “don’t fear the Covid pandemic” or some crap.
The only positive note I have is: I enjoyed the exterior shots of the California Sierras. Everything else? Huge ouch. 1/10.
My third half star film of the year!!!! 🥳🎉😩
With all my heart, it pains me to give almost any film such a low rating, but this was so…!?!?
The plot was actually kind of promising and had potential, but the writing is so inept and the film does everything that we’ve already seen in so many other horror films. Fear just doesn’t do it nearly as well. This entire film just feels like it was rushed and barely any thought was put into the script or the characters. It’s just very subpar.💔
Ok, so I don’t think this film is as “anti-vax” as some reviews claim. I’m basing this off of this review from one of the writers. It looks like they wrote this way back when the pandemic started and I think that explains why everything in the film seems like it was set right at the beginning of the pandemic. This is before we had a vaccine. I think this was a more benign “trust in God and we’ll get through this pandemic” message that was released wayyyy too late.
That aside, this is the worst film I’ve ever seen in a theater. I was pretty excited for a January horror film when I saw the trailer and the trailer itself was…
My worst fear is having to rewatch this shit movie.
Mediocre scares, countless horror tropes, pointless story, it takes forever before we get a kill (and they're lame), the characters are so dumb, laughable third act... and it's a Covid movie. Not enough fear related stuff and too much Covid paranoia. The acting was ok in the first two acts and the set was fine (that's all I could think of for the positives). Shoutout to the intro showing the title twice.
This is an AI generated anti-Covid republican propaganda piece disguised as a horror movie with a DaBaby song over the end credits I can’t even make this up oh my god
Fear : Hey can I copy your homework?
It Chapter 2 : Sure of course, just change it up a bit and fuck up wayyyyy worse than expected so it isn't too obvious
Here it is! Found it. The classic terrible January horror movie, cleverly moved to the end of the month so as to lull us into a false sense of security. But, no... rounding the corner comes Mediocre Movie: The Movie. Just a generic "you've seen this one before" pile of pointless unscary scares.
So a group of friends gather to celebrate a birthday and to quarantine at a lodge in the mountains. But soon the lodge is preying on their individual fears, manifesting those fears as vaguely defined nonsense.
We've seen this "it knows what scares you" gimmick before in too many other movies. Why are we doing it again and pretending it's original? Is it just that they had…
I've heard nothing good about this film since it's theatrical release but I wanted to check it out anyway as there are a ton of recognizable faces in the cast. TI, Terrance J, Andrew Bachelor, Joseph Sikora, etc. Plus I've thoroughly enjoyed most of director Deon Taylor's other films.
Witches, covid coughs of doom, bad wine, hallucinations, shoddy acting, a big ole secluded lodge setting, creepy old lady, creepy paintings, botched proposals, backstabbing, overcoming fears, etc.
There was alot happening and nothing happening all at once. I was invested early on but by the end I couldn't care less.