A Horror Film Blog

 Forgettable home-invasion-with-a-twist boiler. Social media star Mia agrees to pet sit her sister's doggo while said sister goes off to get some medical treatment.  Because someone is murdering local dogs, as you do.  While watching doggo, Mia is menaced by the creepy neighbour and her vapid influencer friends are simultaneously targeted by a Deranged Psycho (tm) who mutilates them as Mia fails to answer questions. So, yeah, we can assume someone watched Scream and thought they could do better.  They can't. If this seems familiar it is probably because you've seen Black Christmas.  Or Halloween.  Or Scream.  Or a any of a thousand better films. Daisye Tutor is very good as Mia. She effectively has to hold the whole film together as she is often the only character on screen for large amounts of time, and none of the rest have any development.  But the rest of the film is a mess, with an incoherent plot, poorly presented characters, a setting that ...

This is a hilarious black comedy.  It has everything virtually apart from zombies - a creepy babysitter, a demonic child, a lunatic mother and a selfish, perverse father, child abuse, LSD, necromania, multiple murders, dead rabbits ... So much the script writers are clearly struggling to keep all the different plot elements moving in sync, but they just about pull it off. We meet Millicent attending at job interview as a baby sitter for a very high needs child.  Millie presents as 21-year-old, and says she is studying medicine.  She quickly forms a rapport with the boy, Johnny. Parents, Jacob and Rebecca, hire her. Turns out Millie isn't quite what she seems - addiction to LSD being just one 'problematic' aspect.  She casually disregards Becca's rules about child care - which are many - and seems not unresponsive as Jacob starts making advances on her.  And there is more, so much more, about her. Okay, so she's a psycho.  That isn't any big reveal.  I...