A woman, Brandy, and her mother in law, Kathryn Hunter, don’t get on and it’s a horror film for some reason.
So going into this I didn’t know who Brandy was, I haven’t see I Know What You Did Last Summer in a few years, and so I looked her up and I saw that she was a singer and so going into the film that was my impression. As such I thought that she would be a bad actor, and of course she was and it was only later when I read more I realised that she is supposed to be an actor to, much to my surprise.
Furthermore, I question what the horror was here, as there doesn’t seem to be any. The mother is adversarial but she is never out and out evil, out side of that there is nothing. There is never a threat that the mother will kill the lead, so therein lies a problem. If the horror is supposed to come from the fact the mother is racist, then it doesn’t work as outside of California folks don’t have a fit to that, they see it and don’t like it but just accept that some people are old/stuck in their ways/ trash and know that having a cry and a fit about it won’t make them stop being that way.
Overall, other than a few unintentionally funny scenes there isn’t all that much here.
1.5/5
Pros
The M.E.S.S thing is funny
It is watchable
Cons.
It is not scary
The acting is bad
The commentary is on the nose
It has pacing issues
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