Film Overview"#Horror" is a 2015 American scary film written and directed by Tara Subkoff, featuring an ensemble cast of young stars and several prominent stars like Chloë Sevigny, Timothy Hutton, and Natasha Lyonne in cameo functions. The movie unfolds around a group of pre-teen girls who come face to face with cyberbullying and scary in their own fortunate world. It employs styles surrounding intersecting cycles of dependency, narcissism, and violence while making an examination of the digital age's desensitizing results.
Plot SynopsisThe movie begins with a group of affluent 12-year-old girls comprising of Cat, Sofia, Francesca, Ava, and Georgie event at the ultra-modern, technologically advanced estate of Sofia's aloof, art collector mom. As they delight in a relatively harmless routine of play and social media engagement, things take a sinister turn when undetectable online trolls start assaulting the ladies, triggering a battle in between them. A dissatisfied Cat is returned home. This sets a cascading series of disturbing events in movement equated through surreal, stylistic significance.
Horror UnleashedAfter Cat's departure, the situation goes crazy as the ladies continue to receive ominous messages on their phones. Each lady begins satisfying a gruesome end, getting murdered extremely within the boundaries of your house. From hammering to stabbing, the violence escalates with each passing moment, developing an environment poignant with scary. The ladies experience the fear of their cyberbullying becoming real-world threats. The often criticized teenagers' fixation with their online lives takes an awful shape as their pleasure becomes a headache.
Finishing RunAs one by one, the ladies are exterminated, the movie narrows down to Sofia who is the last to face the scary. Meanwhile, not able to reach Cat, Cat's father, Dr. White, heads to Sofia's house. He discovers the brutally murdered bodies in the snow and confronts Sofia, exposing that Cat's mother was killed by an unknown perpetrator. When Dr. White tries to murder Sofia, Cat-- at first thought to be dead-- emerges and rescues Sofia, killing her daddy while doing so. The movie ends with both women, shocked, standing in the frozen landscape as the screen fades to black.
Discussion and ReceptionThe film's presentation is packed with images and symbols associated with social media language-- emojis, hashtags, and user-profiles which serve to mirror and critique the girls' fixation with digital life. "#Horror" used scary category strategies to prop up its social critique message, to mixed reviews. Critics considered the movie either inadequate or obnoxious in its use of unjustified violence and graphic material and its effort to communicate discourse on cyberbullying concerns. In spite of the review, "#Horror" generated conversations due to its facility, unique stylistic options, and its dark satire on the unimportant and frequently callous nature of social media.
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