Vashirdfel
Simply A Masterpiece
SunnyHello
Nice effects though.
Voxitype
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
etiamcirculus
The first 21 minutes & 10 seconds was amazing, thanks to Andrew Divoff!!! Wanted to buy it!!! Then the other hour & thirteen minutes happened. Lost all the stars except one... Love Andrew Divoff!
TheLittleSongbird
Saw 'The Hatred, being fond of horror/thriller regardless of budget (even if not my favourite genre) and being intrigued somewhat by the idea. Being behind on my film watching and reviewing, with a long to watch and review list that keeps getting longer, it took me a while to get round to reviewing it.Unfortunately, despite not reading any reviews purposefully before watching, am going to have to agree with all the reviewers who hated 'The Hatred'. A film that started off pretty good, but ran out of steam very quickly and rapidly got worse by a second half that makes one not want to keep watching. Never judge a film without seeing the whole thing and wanted to give 'The Hatred', so gave it a fair chance.Best thing about 'The Hatred' is the first twenty minutes, which start things off on a very promising and atmospheric note.Setting was also quite nice and spooky.However, so much brings 'The Hatred' down. The cast struggle to do much with so little to do and the direction is so phoned in and pedestrian, one gets the sense that the director showed no interest in the film at all. Too much of the soundtrack is intrusive and annoying, made worse by the excessive and obvious sound effects that just cheapens the mood. The film looks drab generally and like it was made in haste.Where 'The Hatred' most underwhelms is the writing and story. The writing is incredibly lazy, it's awkward in dialogue, very confused as a result of not tying things up or going into full detail and doesn't feel complete. The story suffers from a very limp pace after the first twenty minutes and gets slower and slower until an interminably dragged out second half. It further suffers from feeling too much like a short film stretched out with a lot of useless padding. A few of the characters are reasonably likeable but the inconsistent and illogical motivations bring them down. For a film billed as a horror, though it's more a thriller with horror elements, there is very little interesting and nothing remotely scary. They are too few and are far too predictable, anaemic and weakly timed to make impact, with the dull pacing and obvious sound effects cheapening them significantly. In terms of the thriller elements, 'The Hatred' doesn't engage let alone thrill, the film started off very well but feels wasted by how quickly everything runs out of steam. Worst of all is the ending, which is so abrupt, unresolved and incomplete that one struggles to even consider it an ending, the film just ends and leaves one scratching their heads in confusion and feeling cheated.Overall, the potential was there but the execution far from was. Really bad, unless you're curious about seeing it it's best to avoid this. 2/10 Bethany Cox
Wuchak
RELEASED IN 2017 and written & directed by Michael Kehoe, "The Hatred" details events when four college-age women travel to their professor's new retreat home for a getaway, only to find out it has a wicked history.The 22-minute prologue is quite good with its link to WWII Nazism. The middle act, however, meanders with the relatively dull activities and conversations of the female guests and their little girl host, Irene. Something needed to perk up this portion of the film. Thankfully, three of the four females are easy on the eyes (Bayley Corman, Gabrielle Bourne & Alisha Wainwright), not to mention the stunning Alice in the prologue (Darby Walker).There is one effective scare, but the rest of the ghost shenanigans seem half-hearted and prosaic. In tone and quality it's akin to "Solstice" (2008), but a notch or two below and without the superb last act. The script needed more time to flesh out its potential.THE MOVIE RUNS 90 minutes and looks like it was shot in S. Cal, but with establishing shots from the Northeast in light of the Fall colors (I'm just guessing).GRADE: C
megandewald4444
I like to think of myself as liking just about any movie out there; BUT THIS MOVIE IS ABSOLUTELY AND POSITIVELY HORRIBLE! I'm shocked we finished it. Terrible acting of the whole cast. Graphics were so clearly fake and computerized. The store left holes and unexplained topics. IT WAS JUST S**T!!! This movie isn't even worth seeing if it were free. Totally wasted $4 on trash!!!
