Scare Me

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"Scare me" tries to be many things at the same time - a "Twilight Zone" episode, a teenager slasher movie, an anticipation horror and unfortunately goes far from hitting the mark. Some of the horror and slasher movie convention tropes (which, by this point have become memes ) are subverted and some aren't. The trouble is with the plot which can't decide what exactly it wants to be and by the decision point, it gets hit with a big wooden piece of dream logic straight on its barely-coherent head. Dream logic works fine in the Twilight Zone or a claustrophobic survival or loneliness-focused horror, and doesn't work well at all in all the other genres that the directors tried to put in there. Add some overacting and stereotype-jumping on the part of the main protagonists, as well as on the part of the mini-stories ones and we have this movie. Not bad, not terrible, not memeable. 5.3 roentgen out of 10 cabins in the woods.

This movie should have been listed as a horror comedy, although it was lacking in both.

I've spent my entire life wanting somebody to tell scary stories with me by a fireplace during a power outage with pizza, beer, and cocaine. This movie made it happen and for that I am forever in its debt. The actors are perfect, the sound effects had an old-timey radio days feel to them (which I loved), and the whole little red riding hood game within a game was creepy af,just like in real life. Everyone who did the work making this film happen should be proud of themselves, and I wanna congratulate the actor/director/writer on his courage to subvert expectations. Keep it up, I guess. And hey, the Guardian liked it.