Trinket Box

Right, well as I stumbled upon the 2023 movie titled "Trinket Box", and seeing it was a horror movie, of course I opted to sit down and watch the movie, giving it a fair chance. I had never heard about the movie prior to sitting down to watch it, so I wasn't sure what I was in for here.

And talk about a swing and a miss. In fat, "Trinket Box" from writers and directors Patrycja Kepa and Acoryé White, was a slow burning dumpster fire of a movie. There was virtually nothing interesting happening throughout the course of the 103 minutes that the movie ran for. And that made for a very, very boring viewing experience. Yet, I managed to endure to the very end, which was a disappointing end as well, hoping that the movie would pick up in pace and prove to be entertaining.

That just never happened.

The acting performances in "Trinket Box" were actually fair enough, especially when taking into consideration that the actors and actresses virtually had nothing solid to work with. It was actually actress Sandra Ellis Lafferty, playing Mrs. Davis, whom put on the most memorable and outstanding performance in the movie, and she was but in a mere supporting role. I was only familiar with leading actress Augie Duke in the movie.

Visually then you're not in for anything there. There are no special effects to spruce up a stale, bland and mundane narrative that runs at a pace where even a dead guy would go 'ya might wanna speed it up a notch, fella'.

If you enjoy horror movies, do yourself a favor and don't waste 103 minutes on watching "Trinket Box". Some of us suffered through this ordeal, so you don't have to. You're welcome.

My rating of "Trinket Box" lands on a two out of ten stars.

Moving into a new house, a married couple tries to put their troubled past behind them that comes about due to their ethnic backgrounds, but the more they spend together they realize that a cursed trinket box is responsible for not just their marital issues but the hauntings surrounding them.

This one wasn't that good of a genre effort. One of the better features here is the rather enjoyable way the backstory about the haunted plantation comes to pass which is handled nicely as a solid backstory. The old-South traditions and treatment of black people back in that time period sets up the reaction to the affair rather nicely with it being a serviceable means of setting up a cruel and unfortunate situation to be rectified by a curse years later, especially with how the daily suffers afterward due to the incident. As this all bleeds over into the modern day and how them moving into the house starts up not just the old inequality issues usually present in these kinds of films but also sets up the mounting sense of paranoia following the numerous visits and gifts left behind that are interpreted with that passive/aggressive manner which starts this off rather well. Unfortunately, this gets wasted with the series of supernatural hauntings in the final half being the only other likable factor. There are some big issues with the film that hold it back. The main factor against this one is the outright sluggish and dreary pace that renders any possible attempt at suspense or thrills negated from the very beginning of the film. Featuring nothing but banal drama between the couple because it focuses on the particular trinket box with no context or lead-up to it, there's very little chance for anything to become invested from the setup so any attempt to try to build anything is just drowned out in a slew of underwhelming arguments that go nowhere. As that also causes the film to be completely lackluster with the usual style of quick image flashes of something popping out of the shadows proves to be the main source of scares here and is quite cliche overall. It could have been much better if only the main attempts to change it up weren't obscured in a realm of absolute darkness that's hard to determine what's going on anyway so if it's cliched or not it's impossible to tell. Overall, these all combine to make for a lackluster feature.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language including numerous racial slurs, Violence, and sexual content.

Starts out semi-decent, Candyman origin lite. Then quickly goes into STINKER territory. Cheesy scares, boring couple drama, dull "walking through the house" scenes that go nowhere and one of the "cleanest" sex scene for an R rated flick ever! This could've been edited down to a thirty minute short film and still accomplished...whatever it set out to do...which I assume is to bore the 💩 out of the audience. There's even an epilogue scene that seems to go on FOREVER. The filmmakers never heard of an editor apparently. My faith in "Tubi Original" films is equaling "The Asylum" and "Gravitas Ventures"...a guaranteed film TURD! Avoid if possible.

Horrible acting Lost, confused, nonsensical plot Horrible acting Boring movie for almost all of it.

It actually does start out to look interesting. But those 10 minutes disappear quickly.

Horrible acting.

Did I say boring?

Horrible acting Lost, confused, nonsensical plot Horrible acting Boring movie for almost all of it.

It actually does start out to look interesting. But those 10 minutes disappear quickly.

Horrible acting.

Did I say boring?

Horrible acting Lost, confused, nonsensical plot Horrible acting Boring movie for almost all of it.

It actually does start out to look interesting. But those 10 minutes disappear quickly.

Horrible acting.

Did I say boring?

The acting is good; the writing wasn't so great. It was so cliche. The plot started off good. The movie is boring. I have had more excitement waiting on water to boil. It was like so many repeated scenes. The lighting wasn't the best. The movie started to unravel and get boring quickly. It was hard to keep up with what was going on. The movie could have been great. It was pushed in some horrible direction. I am mad at myself for not turning it off. I just kept watching the train wreck. As horrible as it is a part two will probably come out based on the ending; why not cause more suffering. As someone else said we don't need 500 characters to say it suck.