Michael's Movie Grade: F
An embarrassingly bad horror-comedy.
In this film, a young woman ends up being dragged along to a corporate retreat by her boyfriend. This corporate retreat ends up being very dangerous as it is being arranged by a mentally unstable former CEO.
For being a horror-comedy, there is not one thing about this movie that is either funny or scary. Instead, this is one of the most unpleasant movies, I have seen in a long time. It simply lingers on extremely gory scenes that have no point except to be gory. This gory is too realistic and disturbing to be any fun but the story line is too silly for the gore to add any sense of realism. All that is left is pointless scenes that are simply very disturbing and hard to watch. The movie then becomes an endurance test for audiences. I wanted to get up and leave the theater many times. Story-wise this film is no better. The plot seems like it wants to make some sort of point about corporate America. However, whatever point it wants to make is completely lost in a nonsensical story and hopelessly inept dialogue. Telling this story the movie is constantly shifting tones in such a clumsy way that you are unsure how serious or not serious you are supposed to be taking anything. Regardless of how you take it, it is impossible to have any emotional connection to anything going on. The characters are all bland stereotypes that are never likable, relatable or enjoyable.
The closest thing this movie has to something making it worth watching is the performance by Alan Ruck as the villain. Alan Ruck seems to know he is in a bad movie here and just decides to ham it up. The result is the only thing that is somewhat fun to watch here.
Simply avoid this.
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