It's a solid, relatively smart #slasher.
It's definitely a #HORROR#movie w lots of gore. Roth's stuff always seems +5 pts too mean spirited for me. Maybe it's that his gore is so realistic, or that I don't find his movies joyfully deranged so much as misanthropic.
While I appreciate that it got made, & ALSO how many things from the OG #Grindhouse trailer got incorporated in some way, I still feel like the 2007 faux trailer is the superior movie, lol.
Continuing with my new buys (from '23), I just finished reading #BurnTheNegative by #JoshWinning.
Back in October I read the synopsis and sample chapters and knew I would like it.
I was right.
A precise blend of #horror trivia and callbacks and a story that mostly moves at a breakneck pace, with impecable prose.
The main idea seems inspired by Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994), but doing much more than what could be done in a 2 hour film.
Recommended.