Summary: this will be brief, there isn’t much to say about this film beyond it’s a vanity project that shows that Jenna Ortega needs to pick better scripts.
It is the sort of horror film you have seen many times before trying to appear to be some mix of traditional genre fare, and social horror when it is neither. The film thinks it is a lot more clever than it is.
The Weekend can’t act and increasingly his involvement with a project is shorthand for it being awful, even if he isn’t starring in it. This film also raises the grim spector of can Jenna Ortega even act? Increasingly it seems she can play one sort of role, but Aubrey Plaza was already playing that so we don’t need anyone else.
As someone who watches a lot of horror this one was clear from the trailer what sort of film it was going to be.
Overall, the Weekend needs to stick to music.
0.5/5
Pros.
It is short
Cons,
It’s cringe
It thinks it is more than it is
Jenna Ortega
The Weekend
It is awfully paced
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