Thorns

"Thorns" aspires to be a chilling sci-fi horror, but instead blossoms into a thorny mess. The plot, riddled with more holes than Swiss cheese, follows a nonsensical path paved with convenient leaps of logic.

The acting is equally uneven. Some scenes feel phoned-in, with wooden deliveries that would make a rocking chair jealous. While others, particularly the scenes featuring actress Cassandra Schomer, hint at a deeper potential the film frustratingly squanders.

I get that indie horror is becoming all of the "Rage" right now, but this should not have made its way to theaters, when I think of all of great direct to streaming horror films last year, that didn't.