Anyone giving this more than three stars (and that is being generous to a fault) is related to this project in some form. Period. There is no way anyone can give this trainwreck a high score. There are six characters in the whole movie and every single one is more unlikable than that last.
The main ...girl... looks like a boy and of course is a vegan, because... reasons. I will at least give credit that, when mom asks her if she likes girls (because, you know... reasons), she at least claims to "like boys, they just don't like {her}." Maybe if she actually looked like a girl,.. but I digress. She can't act, either. At one point, she is supposed to be crying, but what comes out is... I don't even know what that was.
Of course you've got the completely unnecessary line about Mexican girls going missing but "no one cares about poor brown girls." :eye_roll: Gotta shoehorn that into everything nowadays, huh? The whole "Mexican girls" thing had literally no bearing on the rest of the movie whatsoever. It was just a vehicle to insert that single line.
Mom.. wow. That woman could not act her way out of a wet paper bag. The facial expressions she makes look more like she's constipated than whatever emotions she supposed to be trying to express. Her lines don't make sense either. At one point she tells her daughter that "nothing was a lie" but then goes on to explain how everything was, in fact, a lie. :eye_roll:
The old man smiles the entire time. No matter what is happening around him - talking about his daughter who was murdered, people getting killed, his wife being threatened... he smiles nonstop. I guess he's ok, comparatively speaking, in contrast to the other characters, but... nah.
Way too many plot holes. The main girl is locked in a shed at one point. A shed with windows. Does she try to open a window? Or use one of the many tools around her to break a window? Nah... too easy. No explanation about the reasoning surrounding any of it - the mask, the "rituals"... nothing.
The only redeeming quality, if you can call it that, is Michael Madsen. I've always liked him and he is the only reason I even sat through this abomination. And trust me... no matter how much you like Madsen, he does not make this worth it.
