The Mad Hatter

Wow. Just wow.

I was lured in on the premise of the movie's title, which turned out to be a ruse. So don't succumb to that very same mistake. While this abysmal movie might actually be based on contents of the original story, don't fall into the pit and get suckered in to watch this atrocity of a movie.

The storyline told in this 2021 movie "The Mad Hatter", as written by R. V. Romero and Cate Devaney, was just a travesty. The whole script felt rushed and lacked a proper red thread throughout the course of the movie. And that made for a less than wholesome entertainment experience, let me just tell you that. In fact, the storyline here feels like the two writers sat down apart and wrote segments for the movie without corresponding and then had to piece the segments together afterwards. It was just a scrambled heap of an attempt of making a movie.

The acting in the movie was, I suppose, fair enough, given the fact that the actors and actresses had very little to work with in terms of a proper script or interesting characters. Now, the movie has Michael Berryman on the cast list, so that counted for something and that was also one of the reasons why I sat down to watch "The Mad Hatter". But as luck would have it, he wasn't given much screen time, so don't get your hopes up.

"The Mad Hatter" is listed as a thriller and horror movie. Sure, if you are new to the genre, then you might get some thrills from this movie, or even be mildly scared. But for a horror veteran, such as myself, "The Mad Hatter" was just a swing and a miss.

Sure, the production value of the movie was actually good, but that hardly matters when a movie is devoid of a properly entertaining script and storyline, or lacking interesting characters or scary moments.

This is by no means a movie that I would recommend you rush out to waste your time, money or effort on. It was a movie that fell short of delivering on all parameters.

My rating of "The Mad Hatter" lands on a mere two out of ten stars.

Haunted house- check Opening scene , helikopter filming a car drivning Through the woods. Check Strange cult - check Nightmares to fill out the scares- check Bad acting - check People that wont leave the house , though too much hauntings. - CHECK!!

Still it has a special weiredness to it. Although the low budget, it has some ambition . Musik is kinda good but special effects awful.

I sat through an hour of this absolute disgrace of a movie, I kept thinking it would get better eventually, it never did. The actors make the drama class kids from my high school seem good. The dialogue makes no sense and feels like it was written by a 14 year old who's never spoken to another human. If the director or writer is out there reading this please contact me so I can give you my cash app so I can get my $20 back for my 2 tickets.

This film seemed to have all the ingredients: credible characters, atmospheric set, decent music. The story was begging to come out, but whoever was putting it together fumbled the ball very badly. Who were the caretakers? What was the deal with the little bunnies or beavers being skinned? Was the hatter mad because of chemicals that used to go into the hats? Instead we got a boring repeat of the boy's sister drowning over and over, with the other three student background stories equally lame.

Yes. It's a low budget affair. But honestly, I've seen far worse acting out of many Hollywood A-listers. The score is apt. The direction is solid. The story is, while underdeveloped, quite interesting in my opinion. The film doesn't beat you senseless with cgi. There are some pretty good special effects. Lighting is solid. Character development is minimal, but it really doesn't detract from the film. Maybe five out of ten is a bit much, but it's nice to see this very unique spin on "The Mad Hatter".