Extremely Disappointing

Rating: 2/10 (16 April 2018)

There are so many things wrong with this movie, it's difficult to know where to begin. I wasn't expecting much, but considering I typically respect IMDB ratings, and since this movie has a rating of 7.5, I thought it would be fun to watch on a rainy day. Nope. Let me begin by saying that this is really a teenager themed movie, in other words the maturity of the story is for kids maybe 16 and under. Think "Stranger Things" and "Super 8" mixed together with a whole bunch of other incongruous ideas, and you have the general story and feeling of this movie. However, the "F" word rears it's ugly head every 15 seconds or so, as well as talk about genitalia (both male and female) throughout the film. You actually get tired of how often the F word is uttered, it's annoying. ...especially considering that the story would only appeal to younger teenagers. Then there's the whole idea of the movie; is this really a horror movie?? There wasn't one moment that the film seemed scary, in fact, it was so predictable as to not even make me even slightly flinch, not once. The story line was all over the place, and constantly left you thinking "what the hell did that have to do with the story?". The music and mood changes so often, you think something that will make you like this movie will come along, like comedy or a really bizarre twist that ties it all together. Nope, nothing. I would give the overall movie zero stars, but IMDB requires at least one, and I had to give one more for production value since it did evoke a feeling similar to how "Super 8" had a unique feeling to it. Otherwise, the disappointment is real, and I can only think that the IMDB rating is driven by paid reviewers, not real people who spent hard earned dollars to watch this. Although I do not think this next sentence is a spoiler, don't read on if you want to be totally surprised. The way the film ends without wrapping up all the open issues and subplots will make you want to point a flamethrower at the screen, and immdeiately log in to IMBD to give your one star review.... the closing shot is a title screen that says "IT, the first chapter". Arrrghhh! When that screen appeared, I yelled "Is that it?!!!" and everyone laughed because the word IT was on the screen. Afterwards, I was told by co-viewers that my shout out was the only entertaining moment of the film!