Comments on: Scare Me (2020)

By: Dan Stalcup

Dan Stalcup — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:03:15 +0000

In reply to ED. A little more imagination of any variety would have helped.

By: Dan Stalcup

Dan Stalcup — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:02:19 +0000

In reply to Andrew Milne. And it lives down to that pitch.

By: Andrew Milne

Andrew Milne — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 23:47:32 +0000

“And so the rest of the movie is Fred and Fanny taking turns telling stories to each other. In another film, this would be a mere framing story, and each narrated “story” would in fact cut to an actual horror short. But in Scare Me, we witness the characters narrate the story, with some radio play sound effects and spooky lighting thrown in for dramatic effect.”

That… sounds like an incredibly bad idea on its face.

By: ED

ED — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:44:15 +0000

I suppose the problem with being somewhere between Ms. Rachel Sennott and Ms. Zoey Deutsch is that you have to compete with not one, but two up-and-coming leading ladies or risk working mostly as the Diet Coke to their Real Thing.

Also, this film absolutely needed a bit more of that “Well a volcano happened, so Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley and Lord Byron are stuck indoors making ghost stories to keep themselves amused” energy – which is to say the cast of characters needed some REAL weirdness and faintly Apocalyptic overtones to really set the mood.

God help me, this might have worked beautifully as a ‘Lockdown movie’ (Which would certainly excuse a budget too low to conjure up some real Horror Movie stuff).