I really wanted to like this one. It started out well enough; I even liked the mechanic they used (which I won't spoil here). As someone else said, it seemed like it was going to get pretty interesting pretty fast.
Instead, it got pretty eye-rollingly bad pretty fast.
The thing is, these friends all meet at this house for a night of fun, okay - but we really don't know them. And by not knowing them at all, we're really just not invested in what ends up happening. Sure, one of the couples is introduced early, only through a very particular lens. But everyone else? We're given hints, not much more. They're drawn quite flatly and broadly, and as an audience we aren't given enough to care about beyond surface level.
I think that what the film is trying to do here really requires us to be invested. It's kind of like we've agreed to go on a roller coaster ride with them, but before we can even say hello and exchange pleasantries, we're buckled in and shoved off for the next couple of hours. And the ride's way less fun than it thinks it is.
I gave up 35 minutes in. I'm a pretty avid watcher of all kinds of horror (I even thought that Bodies Bodies Bodies was fun) - but this one just didn't work for me.
