June 28, 2023

Day: 28, Movie: 28

A poor man’s Scream.

I chose this movie for today’s June Swoon 2 because I saw it on Peacock and they always have the Rotten Tomatoes score listed. It said it was 87%. That made me think this was a film to watch. Boy, I was wrong.

According to IMSB, “In April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, college student Parker Mason (Gideon Adlon) takes her best friend, Miri Woodlow (Bethlehem Million), to her family’s lake house to quarantine her. They arrive at the luxurious and secluded lake house when Parker receives a cryptic text message. The girls head to a small dock to get a tan and Parker receives another message that unnerves them both. From that moment on, all the tranquility they were looking for turns into a fight for their survival.“

This was so dumb. Everything from the choices these characters make to the reasons behind the killings, I did not enjoy this movie at all. There were a few main characters and I knew nothing about any of them so I had little reason to root for their survivals.

The performances were fine for what they were. The actors involved were not the problem in this movie. It was the script and the writing. Setting this in the middle of the pandemic was fine too. The use of COVID as a plot point did not bother me, mainly because there were so many other problems to deal with.

I just did not connect with this film at all. It felt like I had seen it all before and the characters were so one dimensional and lacking depth that I couldn’t care much when they were being attacked. Go rent Scream movies instead.