Michael's Movie Grade: B
A fun and campy horror-comedy.
In this film a new employee at the mall, gets a chance to work with the coolest girls in the mall. She soon stumbles onto that these girls are witches and that is the least of their dark secrets.
This movie has a campy and self-aware aesthetic that is simply a lot of fun. This movie has a great look to it from everything to the sets to the appropriately flamboyant outfits the girls wear. The look perfectly mixes campy over the top fun with a sense of foreboding, which captures the feel of the film perfectly. The four main characters are all perfectly cast. The four leads (Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp) have such great chemistry together and it is a joy to watch them play off each other. This is an asset in both the film's more serious and comedic moments. Speaking of the comedic moments, there are plenty of really funny jokes here. The best are the ones about a girl's favorite movie being Psycho, while she is dating a guy named Norman. While a few of the comedic moments may fall flat, the humor certainly hits more than it misses.
Unfortunately, this movie falls into the same trap as many horror and suspense films. It does a great job building up a sense of dread and darkness. However, all this lacks a payoff that lives up to the buildup. The payoff here simply is not dark, twisted, fun, creepy or shocking enough to feel like anything but a letdown compared to what came before.
Even if the movie doesn't fully stick the landing there is still a lot of fun to be had here.
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