Incredibly good marketing...
So clever, leak it onto social media, pay influencers to say how scary and amazing it was and then wait for the sheep with their FOMO to follow the flock.
Will this have the same impact as Blair Witch or Eraserhead in 10 years time?...no.
I thought I would struggle to find a more pretentious horror than Men, but this blew it out of the water.
Shot with a £9000 budget and as it stands making £1.5m at the box office it has been extremely successful and the marketing has worked. This would be ok if trimmed to 10 minutes and directed by a 16 year old for a school project, but it's not.
A labouring 90 minutes spent watching carpet, walls, doors, cartoons on TV...oh and Lego pieces. This was marketed as a horror. Was I one bit frightened...no, Did I care about the characters...no. I didn't pay to watch this, but still felt cheated.
8/10 for marketing 0/10 for the movie.
Will this have the same impact as Blair Witch or Eraserhead in 10 years time?...no.
I thought I would struggle to find a more pretentious horror than Men, but this blew it out of the water.
Shot with a £9000 budget and as it stands making £1.5m at the box office it has been extremely successful and the marketing has worked. This would be ok if trimmed to 10 minutes and directed by a 16 year old for a school project, but it's not.
A labouring 90 minutes spent watching carpet, walls, doors, cartoons on TV...oh and Lego pieces. This was marketed as a horror. Was I one bit frightened...no, Did I care about the characters...no. I didn't pay to watch this, but still felt cheated.
8/10 for marketing 0/10 for the movie.
- henry327-666-568105
- Feb 6, 2023