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Thought it was really stupid, in fact I feel like the filmmakers were hoping i was stupider than the movie so that i would not notice how much it made no sense. The only thing the filmmakers got going for them is that somehow, they got this released in a movie theatre. That's impressive, its attempts to mimic a giallo-styled slasher film of the 70s and 80s just made it more garbage as I was expecting something cool and unique, but the artist went over my head. Although based on the bad ADR it could have been this film did not have the money needed to be good. I give it credit that the "Slasher" was creepy...at first but not creepy enough to justify the badness of it all.

I was enjoying this until the last ten minutes or so when it seemed that the script ended too soon and someone had to jump in and finish the movie at whatever cost to what went on before...

I was not a big fan of It Follows, didn't really care for the entire concept of the movie once the initial theme was established, so while I can agree that this is reminiscent of that film, Don't Look Away also has its own lore and its own strange engulfing vibe that kept going all through the film until the unfortunate ending.

I could think of several ways this could have ended, but the ending that was settled on really felt totally out of place with the rest of the film.

This movie is like It Follows, except C rated and just awfully put together. It's like an hour and a half long "horror" youtube short. No pop ups. Only way to watch is getting absolutely blitzed out of your mind and laugh at the corniness. The whole time the movies audio sounds like it's recorded from an iPhone. Writing this review in the theatre because it's also empty. That should have been a sign to not watch this movie lol. It's literally the horror game weeping angel. Who the hell thought to make it a movie and downplay the hell out of it?!? If I had it in me I'd go get a manager for a refund but it's after 11 and you can never find an employee except some random 14 year old who don't know nothing.

There is an actor in the film named Abu Dukuly who should not quit his day job. The acting from most of the main cast is fine, but this guy's acting is soooooo bad, it takes away from the performance of everyone else in each scene he's in. His lines are rushed through and without emotion. When he does show emotion, it's cringe-worthy.

This bad acting from one person aside, there are some creative scenes in the film, but they all happen within the first 20 minutes or so. The visuals of the mannequin are pretty great, as it can look frightening with the right lighting and shadows.

The story isn't terribly strong, and no one shows a lot of remorse for the murders that are happening. Friends are brutally killed several feet away from certain characters, and the emotion and reaction from them is almost not existent. I had a hard time liking any character as a result.

Although it was a valiant effort by the cast, the production quality is not good. The sound is very tinny and distorted. It appears to be a knock off of It Follows. The script plods along and there is no real development. The mannequin is silly's and the editing very choppy and sometimes doesn't make sense.

The direction is interesting and as I said, the actors do a nice job. It's a nice suspense piece. I would not really classify this as horror. As I said it's suspenseful and the mannequin makes it otherworldly.

I am not a film professional and only giving it my opinion as a horror and suspense fan.

The acting here is decent.

The production quality is good.

But you can't get over how stupid the premise, itself, is.

It's supposed to be "like a creepypasta come to life", as one of the characters puts it.

Unfortunately, the story they chose to run with is so implausibly absurd, that it's hard to remain engaged with it.

Let alone take it seriously.

Because the killer here is a mannequin that kills anyone who dares look away from it...hence the title of the film.

It might have been a concept that worked, if it were done better.

However, as it stands...it's just not interesting in the slightest.

One of the problems with it is that there are too many characters.

None of which are properly developed...so you don't care about any of them.

Which is why each death ends up being even more anti-climactic than the one that came before it.

Leaving you to sit through one lackluster, and pointless, kill after another...hoping it will end sooner than later.

Because the kills aren't cool.

There's virtually no gore.

And the mannequin is kind of dumb looking.

Which makes you wonder exactly what they are trying achieve with it...other than to alienate those who chose to dedicate their time to watch it.

Because the plot is so brutally bad.

You simply lose interest in it by the time you reach the halfway point of the film.

After the introduction...I really thought this was going to be cool.

But it was all downhill from there...

...straight to the bottom of the barrel.

So don't fall for the clever marketing.

Because this film sucks.

Do yourself the favour of passing this one by.

So you don't waste an hour and a half on it like I did.

2 out of 10.

I guess it's because the reviewers are too young or something, but this premise goes back quite a while. At it's peak of internet fame, the most popular version is SCP-173, which one person sort of seemed to sort of remember, and another seemed to know from one of the video games based off of the SCP database. The writer posted it on 4chan back in 2006 and then on the official SCP website once it was established in 2008. Statue that can move freely when no one is looking and kills people via broken neck if not watched or contained.

However, there was also an episode of Dr. Who called Blink, series 3, episode 10. That aired in 2007, so it could have possibly predated 173 in concept, since episodes usually take a while to get made. Most people would think of this as the Weeping Angels episode where those statues that you usually find in grave yards do the same thing, except when they touch you, you get sent into the distant past instead of being killed, which could be a boon or a curse depending on how attached to modern days you are and how well you could adjust to the living in the past. Still, it made for a nice creepy episode given the look of the weeping angels.

There are likely even older predecessors of which I am currently unaware. It frequently happens when I'm reading up on old sci-fi and horror by people like Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Jules Verne, etc. That I find people have drawn from them even further up the line than anyone realizes or acknowledges. People don't realize they are watching something based on something that's based on something else, that's based on something else...who knows how far back.

It's not like It Follows, because that creature keeps coming no matter what and no one but the victim can see it, so nothing like this.

It's laughable to even say that it TRIES to be like The Shining and I think people are only saying that because The Shining was on television in the background at a certain point in the movie, but the mannequin seems to have powers more akin to Rubber, the 2010 movie about the sentient tire with psychic abilities.

If I hadn't been crafting with messy materials, I probably would have turned the movie off around the 30 minute mark, but I swear that it's as if they actually filmed the movie scenes in order from beginning to end and learned as they went along. The filming got better along the way, the acting, the sound...

By the end I felt like it redeemed itself as a campy B-horror, so I give it a 6. A little better than the average movie in the pile of disappointing horror movies I've been digging through for the last 10 years.

Stolen from the 2018 Youtube horror short DON'T LOOK AWAY (their caps, not mine) and wishing it was The Shining with blatant ripoffs of scenes and themes. The dialog is embarrassingly cobbled together and pretty racist in the depiction of the one black character, who also happens to be the only one who has a gun (illegally just for that extra racist stereotype flavor). The characters have no idea what they're up against, then without explanation they magically know exactly how the thing works because plot needs to happen. They come up with plans that almost seem logical, but they implement them without any logic. There are attempts at "jokes", telegraphed as blatantly as Paradise PD. The YouTube short is substantially better, despite not being good at all. Calling the characters 1 dimensional would be giving them too much credit. I was shocked to find out this was released in theaters, but then I remembered movie makers have no pride or shame these days.

I honestly don't know how this movie got approved to be produced. From the horrible writing to the atrocious acting... This is by far the worst movie ever. I'm watching it on Prime, but from my understanding this was released in theaters.... There is no way I'd pay to watch this. It's a Sunday in the summer, no football so I decided to watch a horror movie. This is not a horror movie, I think anybody could've made a better plot & gotten better actors. Please don't waste your time with this movie.... It's a waste of existence, if I can rate this movie it would be a negative star... After watching this I believe I can become an writer & sell my movie...

What can I say about this movie other than that it is about a killer mannequin, which all you need to know to understand what this movie is; I did not know what to think of this movie once I knew the premise, and after watching, it was very weird. Don't Look Away (2023) is not good with it having a dumb horror plot, but it was very entertainingly bad when watching it where I could not understand what I was watching from beginning to end; the mannequin itself was stupid looking and made the movie not scary at all.

The performances in the movie are not good with some characters being annoying, and the way these people interacted with each other to talk about what to do about the mannequin, which was stupid, and it was funny when they were running around trying to avoid the mannequin. There was character in the movie who was insane for some reason that had nothing to do with the movie, other than make a weird scene that is exactly like The Shining (1980) for no reason at all which was stupid in the movie. Also, this other person who happens to have a history with the mannequin, but he does not do much in the third act except do something unexpected.

The mannequin could be creepy looking, but instead it was weird looking and not in an effective way; it was not scary as much as it was funny to watch whenever it showed teleported on in front of the camera in the middle of a scene. The rules or the way the mannequin works is if people look at him and look away from him, but if you keep looking at him without looking away, it will not do anything. Also, I would have liked an explanation on why the mannequin is teleporting around killing people, but instead it does not tell us anything and we are supposed to just accept that it can do this without a reason.

I did not care about the characters, and the movie can feel slow at moments when it is not unintentionally funny when the mannequin is teleporting around killing people for unknown reasons; also, the editing was bad with it cutting abruptly in the middle of scenes and lines of dialogue with there being weird music choices that do not fit with the scenes. Don't Look Away (2023) was not that good, though it has some moments that could work, it still does not work well, and the movie can get off track with its plot where it will focus on something else; this movie is not worth the time watching.

Blatant ripoff of The Shining. I'm sure the filmmakers would call it an homage but there's a big difference and they ripping off. The mannequin parts were cool but the must've ran out of a full movie so they stole characters and ideas.

Blatant ripoff of The Shining. I'm sure the filmmakers would call it an homage but there's a big difference and they ripping off. The mannequin parts were cool but the must've ran out of a full movie so they stole characters and ideas.

Blatant ripoff of The Shining. I'm sure the filmmakers would call it an homage but there's a big difference and they ripping off. The mannequin parts were cool but the must've ran out of a full movie so they stole characters and ideas.

Genuinely one of the worst horror movies I don't know how anyone could enjoy this dumpster fire mess! It's got some of the worst acting, awkwardness, terrible directing and the credits were barely put in I never seen that happen it had a few names. I'm usually enjoying most anything but this is uncomfortable and extremely cheesy not in a fun way like I don't mind guilty pleasure those are heartwarming where as this is poorly made. A nice benefit is I rarely bash stuff I watch so it'll be good to have some negative reviews on IMDb. Some of the later tension is nice though I'll give it that the rest is basically battery acid.

Wow, this movie was boring. When I read the description, I wasn't expecting anything revolutionary, but I was expecting something entertaining. It's a pretty ludicrous premise, so I think they could've done a lot with this. Unfortunately, it just missed the mark. By like, a lot.

For starters, this movie is dreadfully boring. The plot is just so slow and not interesting to follow. The acting is also bad, and half of it is just the actors randomly yelling at each other. Considering the budget and overall low production value, they should've leaned into the comedy instead of trying to make this scary.

The second I laid eyes on what the movie is about I immediately thought about SCP foundation. You know the one. They have a wiki with a lot of crazy and creepy stuff. It was an okay-ish try to make something out of the concept, if that was intended. If not, this is a sorry excuse and a rip off. A bad rip off. I want to think that it was thought out to use the concept in good intentions. Cause SCP's are creepy. This was not creepy.. at all. The actors where actually good, and made a good effort. But over all I didn't like this. I don't regret watching it though. It's a good Monday evening brain collapsing watch if you are bored. But I will never recommend it to anyone, and I will never watch it again.

This movie has been compared to the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who. If you're not familiar with them, they only move when you're not looking at them; when you look directly at them, they remain still. This film uses a similar concept but with a smooth-crotched Ken doll that oddly resembled Richard Nixon for me. After a surprisingly cool opening scene, our main character witnesses the doll killing someone and, as a result, becomes its next target. Why it kills and how it became a supernatural being is never really explained. Soon after that incident, she and her friends also become targets of the doll.

The movie has very low ratings, so I didn't expect much, but I thought the concept sounded interesting and wanted to experience it for myself. As I mentioned, I really enjoyed the opening scene and was excited to see how the movie would progress. However, as it continued, I began to understand why it received such a low rating. That said, I don't think it's as bad as many make it out to be. While the story isn't entirely original, the concept is still fun, though the execution falls short in several areas. There are some logical inconsistencies, and most of the acting is subpar. Additionally, the film doesn't fully explore the doll's mind-control abilities or its method of killing.

A new character is introduced in the final act, but their inclusion feels stereotypical and forced, adding to the movie's cheesiness. Overall, it's a good concept that is flawed in execution, resulting in a slightly below average movie with a rushed finale. [5,2/10]

This movie isn't a new classic. Its a lean and mean horror movie based on a video game. Acting from the main lead is the best, the rest are a bit iffy in delivery.

Its basically about a woman who witnesses a gory murder when some thieves hijack a truck and find something sinister inside of a box being transported. She isn't sure what she saw but the thing inside begins stalking her and her friend group, and no one believes them.

Direction is solid, its a supernatural horror thriller rather than a slasher. It has some good set pieces and anxiety for the most part, but there was also budget limitations as two visual effects scenes seemed a bit off.

Overall if its ends up on youtube for 5 bucks or a streaming service, horror movie fans will get a kick out of this one.

The idea of the movie isn't original, which isn't always a bad thing. But in this case, it is. The movie is plagued with bad acting, uninteresting characters, and predictable scenes. Some of the locations and sets had potential, but are ruined by dry performances from the actors, lack of ANY common sense, and "mostly" bad effects. The death scenes were mostly boring, and lack any originality aswell. There was only, maybe one or two actual scenes that I found to be shot well, but the weird jump cuts, random zoom ins, ect, ruin any tension they try to build up. It feels like the movie was made in a shortform video editor.(Vine Booms Included). I don't understand how they filmed this, and looked at the footage afterword, and thought they had any good takes. I deeply regret wasting my time on it. Chances are you will too. Heed the warnings of not just myself, but the other reviews too.