31 Nights of Halloween Horror part 8 - The Hatred


The Hatred
90 mins
Dir. Michael G. Kehoe
2017/USA

My hatred for this movie knows no bounds.  A trailer for this movie was released over the summer, it showed a clip from the film and looked absolutely terrifying, I couldn’t wait for this movie to come out.  It was something I always thought should be put in a horror film and it was creepy as fuck.  Finally the movie was released and I eagerly awaited watching it.  And sadly that age old tradition of the trailer showing the best parts of the movie came into play.  But it wasn’t just that, the movie was bad.  It was just fucking stupid.

Prologue of a flashback to 1968 an escaped Nazi from WWII starts a new life on a farm in America with his wife and young teenage daughter.   The daughter wants to soil her wild oats in the city but dad won’t have any of it because well, he is a dick, as all Nazis are.  One day a mystery package shows up on their doorstep, inside is an Iron Cross that der fuehrer wanted this guy to have, so he buries it in the wall of the basement.  Meanwhile daughter is like fuck you I am going to do what I want and you can’t stop me and dad is like, no fuck you I will drown you ass.  And mom is like what happened to our daughter and dad is like, I don’t know she seems to be missing.  One day dad is spraying DDT on the orchards wearing presumably a WWII gas mask get up and I don’t know, has a heart attack or something and mom is like, man I married a Nazi dick and takes the DDT gun and just squirts that shit into the tube of the gas mask, packs her one suit case of belongings and splits.
Flash forward to the present, four annoying as fuck girls are staying at a big house that David Naughton just bought and guess who used to live in this house?  Right, god damn nazis.  David Naughton has to go somewhere but he leaves his little daughter with the four annoying as fuck girls.  Not sure why any of this is happening at this point, but whatever, I am just happy the prologue is over and we can get onto the good stuff.  So the girls talk and drink wine and do nothing and we follow them all along the way.  A thunderstorm hits at night fall and they all decide to go to bed.  Seems there is a malevolent ghost in the house with them and in scenes borrowed form other movies the ghost tries to do away with all the girls.  The only one good scary scene in the movie happens, it is tense and effective and then we are back to why is this even happening mode quickly afterwards.

Events and characters are introduced that you think will have have a purpose or subplot to the story that never show up again.  Two of the girls disappear, presumably killed by the ghost, but really we have no idea because we don’t see it happen, find their bodies nor are they mentioned again.  Towards the end of the movie the little girl is like shouldn’t we go back and look for annoying as fuck girl #2 and annoying as fuck girl #3?  And the main character gives her a look like, I don’t even know who those girls were I just met them on set two days ago when we started filming, fuck em.  The dialogue is clumsy and unrealistic, the acting is as wooden as Pinocchio’s nose and the purpose of the whole movie is never explained.  The Iron Cross is filled with hatred and makes ghosts go mad or something, well not really seems like the ghost of the girl from the beginning only wanted to have her body found.  So then why was she so scary and mean?  Because this is a horror movie and that is how it is supposed to be.  This movie fails on every level, I could live with the bad acting if only they had an actual story that wasn’t being made up as they went along.  If you want to see one of the scariest scenes in a horror movie, just watch the trailer, there is no need to suffer through the whole film.  Don’t let the Hatred consume you, avoid this movie. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

13 Nights of Halloween Horror part 14 - Prevenge

Image
Prevenge 88 Mins Dir. Alice Lowe 2016/UK How do you feel about a movie that deals with a pregnant woman going on a killing rampage?   Sounds fun right? Prevenge is more of a dark comedy then an out and out horror film, but there is enough stabbing and the sauce spilled that it would appeal to some horror fans. Ruth is a widowed seven-month pregnant woman who seems to randomly go around killing people.   As we follow her along we learn that she actually has an agenda, the more people she kills the more we put the story together as to why she is doing it.   Of course, then there is always the what is making her do it, and that is her unborn fetus inside her that is guiding her along in the killing.   Seems her fetus is talking to her and instructing her on what to do.   It is a rather simple story really, stalk, kill move on and that is where the movie falters.   It never really goes much deeper than that.   It is mostly 88 mins ...
Read more

31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 29 - Don't Leave Home

Image
Don’t Leave Home 86 mins Dir. Michael Tully 2018/USA As we get close to the end of the month, we are going to get a little highbrow and watch one of those fancy art films that are a slow burn with a twist ending.   The title of this one says it all.   Don’t Leave Home. Our story open with a priest who by hanging himself opens the gates of hell.   Ha Ha just kidding, a little Fulci joke there.   No this is a much different movie.  It opens In Ireland with a priest painting the picture of a little girl praying in front of a virgin mary statue out in a garden.   Soon after, the little girl goes missing.   The strange thing is though, the picture of her in the painting also goes missing, like she was never painted in it. Fast forward to the present day, Melanie an artist in the US is making a series of dioramas for an art show she is having, the theme is unexplained missing people in Ireland.   Apparently it is...
Read more

31 Nights of Halloween Horror - The Night Stalker

Image
The Night Stalker 74 mins. Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey 1972/USA You see kids, back in the day they actually made movies specifically for TV.  Not only that, but sometimes they made horror movies for TV and they were actually quite good.  Faced with more of a challenge by standards and practices these movies needed to be more creative when they couldn't splash the red stuff.  This caused us to get some really great films, Don't be Afraid of the Dark, the terrifying Salem's Lot and in this case The Night Stalker, which was the most popular highest rated TV movie at its time and spawned a sequel and a TV series afterwards. Darren McGavin, who if you don't know from this, you will remember as the father in A Christmas Story plays a Carl Kolchak, a reporter who has been fired from numerous papers throughout the country for his outlandish brackish stories.  He winds up in Las Vegas writing for a small paper with a boss who fights him on every article he hands in.  One d...
Read more