Summary
A group of friends come across a racist board game when they meet at a cabin for a friends reunited weekend.
I was looking forward to this film and after having seen it I can say that it was fine…. Well perhaps a little better than that as far as horror comedies go, which as you know I have very mixed feelings on, it was serviceable but it was certainly nothing to write home about.
The cast do work well together and have a number of good moments, but I found there was far too much backstory and interpersonal drama and that distracted away from the main story. I wanted to hear more about this game and see other people it had hurt not learn about two of the characters’ strained relationship.
The comedy had its moments, but these are far too few and far between to be considered a strong point of the film. The horror does play on a number of interesting themes and does a lot to address the tiresome tropes surrounding black characters within horror cinema, this is probably the film’s greatest strength. I would, however, say that the game itself, central to the film’s horror, is underdeveloped and could do with more to bulk out the idea.
Overall, mildly entertaining but soon to be forgotten.
3/5
Pros.
It has a few funny moments
It does a lot to buck tropes and stereotypes
It has a good pace
Cons.
Quite a number of misses from the joke department
Again the central horror idea is very underdeveloped
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