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  Review by Zay ★ 14

  I spent the majority of this film thinking it would be cool if Thanos came through a portal and snapped every character in this film from existence in extremely gory fashion.

  I was not entertained at all.

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  Review by ༘ ade ༘ ★★½

  WHAT EVEN

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  Review by Sofa Sinema ★★★½ 2

  Shudder is proving itself to be a major influencer for horror in the gen-x age. Self-reflexive and tech savvy, Shook has the dark undertones of a Black Mirror episode with a sense of chaotic fun along with the jolts. It exploits its single location setting in a flurry of creative visual choices, which keep the frame exciting even though much of the action occurs on smartphones and laptops. That's where Silk Road totally flunked out.

  Some of the live projection was a bit distracting and did affect the intimacy and creepiness at times, but the lighting is bloody beautiful. There are obvious tips of the hat to the enduring Scream franchise, yet this flick has the forward momentum of filmmakers embracing the new world disorder with style and wit. It takes balls to put dogs in this much jeopardy, so kudos to director Jennifer Harrington for finding a pair.

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  Review by Helen ★★

  Shallow and derivative, with an uneven tone throughout. 

  Pass.

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  Review by Theo ★★½

  To be a horror fan in 2021 is to be a spoilt for choice. Streaming services like Shudder made solely for us gorehounds, with an endless blood-fountain of old ghoulish classics or newer, more ‘woke’ b-sides produced by their own distribution, or you have entire franchises such as the Conjuring or Insidious-verse churning out conveyer-belts worth of spin-offs or sequels yearly. 

  Now it’s down to you whether these thickets of choices are blessings or curses. On the one hand, you have a constant cycle of new voices breathing life into avenues of horror that wouldn’t have existed before - such as Shook’s social media premise - and with a helping-hand of our current continuously clued-in never-miss-a-beat culture, ideas are plentiful…

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  Review by haley ★

  i have had ENOUGH of horror movies about social media influencers

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  Review by Aleece ½

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by Bevan R. Clark ★ 6

  This is the perfect film to watch while scrolling through social media on your iPhone. Because the film’s main character spends just as much screen time scrolling through social media on her iPhone and this film is undeserving of your attention. Its as hollow and vapid as the Instagram influencers at the start of the movie. 

  It was nice to hear the Chromatics playing over the opening credits though. So one star for that.

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  Review by Michelle_Fett ½

  Just a bitch testing her unlimited data plan for the entire run time.

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  Review by DreamScape40 ★★

  She doesn't understand!!!!

  📱💻

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  Review by Kane Bumpers ★★

  Although it is clear that everybody put in a lot of effort working on this, the story and all of the turns it took did not work in the slightest.

  44%

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  Review by Greg Dundee ★★★

  What starts out feeling like a very low budget run of the mill slasher film soon turns into something that is actually quite original and enjoyable. Tense and unnerving in parts (the injection scene made my skin crawl), Shook mostly succeeds in what it sets out to do. And there is a twist that most won’t see coming, however things do kind of go downhill from this point onwards and the whole film becomes a lot less believable. And as far as endings go, Shook really drops the ball.

  
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