Green Gloom (2015)

Rating: 4/10 (8 July 2016)

I can't really get my head around why this is so highly rated (yes 7.3/10 which it is as I write this on IMDb for a 'horror' is very highly rated).
I'm guessing Anton Yelchin's recently dying had quite a bit to do with it, the fans giving the rating an extra boost in his honour or whatever but I could be wrong, I mean a lot of people like THE INVITATION (2015) which I thought was crap so it's possible that people actually liked it as much as that.
Anyway, as far as the movie goes I expected something much more exciting and fast-paced, but fast-paced is definitely not the right word for this movie.
Even though it has some surprise shock value scenes serving for jump-scares with some neat gore here and there, for the more part the pace is slow and the mood is more melancholic than it is intense.
The acting is disappointing, nobody is flat out terrible but I wouldn't say that anyone was particularly good, everyone played their characters very low-key often mumbling, even in the what was supposed to be intense scenes. And Patrick Stewart was not believable as the leader of the redneck Nazis.
There's a scene where Anton Yelchin's character says something like 'Shouldn't we be in shock right now?', to which I thought to myself 'Yes, Anton, you should'.
And I haven't even mentioned how stupid most of the characters are, but then I suppose that is true to the horror tradition.