Tormented (2014)

[Leisher]

Currently on Prime.

A high school girl takes a babysitting job on Halloween at a house that's way out of the way. Soon a late trick or treater results in a nightmare situation for the girl and the kids in her care.

This is a horror thriller that is billed as a "cat and mouse" situation, and it's not bad. Alysa King carries the film with her performance. The villains are also pretty cool. There's no super human bullshit or magical teleporting. They seem to have some sort of legit purpose, but it's never explained. This is acceptable because sometimes the not knowing is better than knowing.

There's a "sexual/high school bullshit" subplot that starts the film and plays a minor role later, but the movie is truly all about the cat and mouse.

Now let's talk about where the film fucks up: the end. Film viewers as a whole need to come together and demand an end to film twist endings that make zero sense. I remember the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes remake where Markie Mark takes off in a space ship leaving that planet only to then land back on Earth in front of the Lincoln Memorial, except he's an ape. It made zero sense and in the director's commentary Burton explained it with "I don't know. The director of the sequel can try and figure it out." It's your movie you fucking asshole! That line is genuinely why I hate Burton.

Anyway, many movies give us these twist endings that imply a much broader ________ than what we just experienced for the past 90 minutes. Sometimes it works (1BR), sometimes it makes zero sense like here. Fucking stop it. It's lazy bullshit that you hope gets people talking about your movie, but it won't. It's been done too many times now, and worse, in this example it's completely stupid. Should have ended with the cop walking the kid out. Perfect spot to end it. The nonsense after that is just that: nonsense.

This was an enjoyable movie despite it's flaws.