Hostage

I saw this on a streaming site and knew it was going to be trash. Sometimes trash can be fun, but it's not the 80s anymore, where people put their heart into low budget horror movies and did something either clever, adorable with latex masks or shocking.

Now it's just slow, badly lit, digitally filmed, color graded to hell with ugly green or yellow tint, bad soundtrack and scripts written by what can only be 3rd graders with learning disability. I could make a better film with 50k and an Iphone.

The acting is atrocious as well, with the squeaky voice lead being virtually impossible to watch.

Naturally, as a modern movie, everything has to be slow, so 80 minutes end up feeling like 150. This has less narrative density than an episode of a tv show.

Who funds this stuff? There must be some kind of funding scheme going here which I'm not yet privy to.