Wicked Games (2021)

Wicked Games (2021). Wicked Games: Directed by Teddy Grennan. With Christine Spang, Markus Silbiger, Conner Ann Waterman, Drake Shannon. When Harley joins her new boyfriend for a long Halloween weekend at his country estate, they're invaded by a band of masked freaks and forced to play a Wicked Game. To the intruders' unpleasant surprise, Harley's hard-boiled history has endowed her with a bag of tricks which give the game a surprise ending.

“I really wanted to like this. But then there were so many flaws which screws it up for me. Where to start?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe camera work was very awful, often shaky, often too close, sometimes blurry and there is no use of any filter or something to give it some more style or atmosphere. It felt like amateur filmer or almost like found-footage.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThen you have action scenes/stunts OFF SCREEN or poorly executed. Then there are pale actors with boring dialogues, stupid behavior or they are missing at all. Where were they? Oh I know, they rather liked to spent time celebrating at the set as seen in the little u0026quot;making ofu0026quot; at the end. Or was that just a filler? Because the movie itself is barely 73 minutes long, yet starting too slow with off topic nonsense. Character setups? Non-existant.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe plot actually sounded not new, but couldu0026#39;ve worked if properly exectued. And yet you get u0026quot;plot holesu0026quot; leaving you with ??? In your face.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe music was not bad, but the location – the manor – was the best star in the whole movie. Even though itu0026#39;s empty and lacks of atmosphere.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhatu0026#39;s funny is the fact that most people rate this 6+ here, while u0026quot;RAVAGEu0026quot; aka u0026quot;SWING LOWu0026quot; only has 4,9 currently here – a film I liked much better than this. Sorry u0026quot;WICKED GAMESu0026quot;, that was way too less action and cinematography for me. Not really horror, not really thrilling – just poor, a dissappointment.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHow about some u0026quot;FUNNY GAMESu0026quot;, u0026quot;FUNNY GAMES U. S.u0026quot;, u0026quot;THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFTu0026quot;, u0026quot;THE STRANGERSu0026quot; and so on and so on instead?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTHIS one here needs a remake, even though itu0026#39;s u0026quot;newu0026quot;. Get it? ;)”