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Was this even a comedy?

It's covid times and kids try to isolate in a cabin. But there's only 3 of them, so nobody can die. A teen slasher comedy with zero death and zero comedy. Then a weirdly contrived emotional ending. It is impossible to appreciate any ending with such horrible and unlikable characters.

The acting was pretty bad. But probably not as bad as the writing, the dialogue, even the sound mixing and filming. More than anything, there is zero story. So zero story, zero death, zero comedy. This is beyond a zero movie. It should have been an anecdote that an idiot tells you, not a fully produced movie intended for wide release.

I will definitely never see it again.

A group of teen-aged young adults go to conversion camp. People start to die. Easiest way to explain the plot without spoiling anything, because it is not a teen slasher horror, so there are more complex things happening beyond what I was anticipating (which was purely stereotypical horror, teens dying one by one being attacked by a movie villain.)

This is not a teen slasher, which is what I thought I was watching. All the reviews that say that this is not a horror movie are correct. But that is not a reason to give is -3 stars. Incorrect marketing doesn't make a bad movie. I am also not personally on any type of LGBT spectrum, such that I'm not even sure what my label is, according to the characters in this movie., That said, I really, really enjoyed it.

It became apparent about 15 minutes in, that this was not a horror. The vibe of the movie that develops is closer to drama-action. There are some extremely disturbing scenes that hold on a character's face, which were moving. There are some chilling scenes as well. If watched as a drama, it may be more enjoyable to some.

If you are looking for teen slasher stereotypes dying in the woods one by one, this is not the movie. If you want a specific story about a specific set of people who have experienced a specific set of circumstances and are coincidentally in the same location while one of them enacts a years-long plan; then this is your movie. In that sense, it is almost the complete opposite of a teen slasher, which is the "every teen group" and "this could happen to anyone."

There are many reviews that spoil the plot and ending. I won't, but I should because it's not worth seeing. That said, the irrelevant title spoils it too. So here is a non spoiler synopsis: A few people wake up chained in a basement (which is literally the only thing that remotely resembles a Saw movie) and are being tortured by someone who physically looks nothing like he does when he is not in his mask. Hmmm... I sure wonder what's going on there.

Plot points are not in the correct order. The characters are each more preposterously villainous than the last. The writing and dialogue/monologues/narration/fever-dream speech were all extremely stupid. Almost like each line is a trailer soundbite. Ever scene goes on for way too long, and the violence is both unearned, and ludicrous. Even the insults they hurl at each other are pathetic. This is like it was written by someone who has never seen a Saw movie, but wants to write a movie like it. But it's not like Saw-lite. It's more like the Asylum version, like Seen, or some terrible knockoff.

There is a non-satirical, schmaltzy scene where a serial killing torturer, still wearing a bloody mask made of presumably a human face draws child-like "this is my house, this is my family" crayon drawings while emotional music plays. How was that not a joke?

Nothing matters. Nobody cares. Nobody is likable or worth rooting for. Just stupid and bad.

The points are exclusively the fact that it was filmed on real, professional equipment, and for the actors, who I hope went on to be in real movies,. They weren't the worst. And giving it 4 stars is beyond charitable. It hold the moral equivalence of donating 50,000 when you are on a fixed income. Which I guess makes this movie the moral equivalence of stealing from the poor. I will never see this again.