Strange Events

I watched 20 minutes and had to turn off. The concepts are interesting but the application fails hard. An over-reliance on jump scares and harsh musical instrumentation mixed with bad acting and completely unbelievable actions-reactions from the characters was too much for me to handle.

The production values are good, but that's like praising the plates, knives and forks while eating a crap sandwich.

It seems all the good script writers and actors have retreated to their underground bunkers during Corona.

C'mon Gal, tell us again, were all in this together!

I have no idea what these reviews are talking about. This is a series, with episodes. Over 120 minutes all together, not 77. I had to recheck, in case I was on the wrong page. I'm not. This is a really strangely done series. The acting isn't great, the scripting is weird, and kind of high schoolish. I almost feel like high schoolers would have done a better job. Some of the stories have legitimately no ending. You're left in confusion, which is frustrating. Honestly, the show makes great background noise, but really isn't worth the watch.

Some of the ideas were pretty good, like actually made you go 'huh.'

Mostly the stories were rushed or meh. A lot of them made no sense at all either in how the characters got there or just 'why' in general. I get the short story idea but if you have absolutely no setup then it's hard to watch some event happen and understand it at all.

Put it on while you do other stuff. It's okay to glance at but dont expect a whole lot.

"Strange Events" sort of cash in on the success of "Stranger Things", not only by its title, but also by its title music which is very reminiscent of that TV series.

Regardless, I decided to watch "Strange Events", even though I had no idea what I was getting myself into, aside from it being a horror movie. Turned out that this was a horror anthology. Yeah, I know right, and I was going 'oh, this is going to be interesting', as I really like anthologies.

But the matter of the fact is that "Strange Events" wasn't particularly interesting or entertaining. In fact, I ended up turning it off after 46 minutes of enduing a less than mediocre foray into various aspects of horror. Now, it should be said that some of the segments that I managed to sit through were interesting and definitely had potential, but others were downright abysmal and so boring you want to claw out your eyes.

I gave up after 46 minutes of being relatively bored. So I just opted to toss in the towel and not finish the rest of the movie, especially because I felt my eyelids growing more and more heavy with each passing segment.

Some of the segments actually had fairly adequate acting performances, and it was also nice to see unfamiliar faces on the screen - which is something that I definitely enjoy. But it wasn't enough to lift up this sinking movie experience.

If you enjoy horror anthologies, then your money, time and effort is better spent elsewhere.

This show tries to tell stories in a suspenseful/mysterious vein, but fails miserably.

The scripts are about as suspenseful as a shopping list. Often, they either make no sense or the characters are in situations that simply defy any sort of believability.

The acting is incredibly amateurish; most of the acting performances are just horrible/completely unconvincing.

I usually enjoy these types of programs (anthologies of short stories); Strange Events is clearly a low budget program, but to me, it was simply unwatchable.