Horror fans it's honestly not that I get inspired to do review a certain movie let alone a horror movie but i was browsing Youtube the other day and while I was watching a video the trailer for the film that i'm about to review came up. Now usually I would skip adverts but for some reason I didn't skip the trailer for this film and because of that fact I went down and I tracked myself down a copy of the film and so join me horror fans as I review the 2021 Shudder original horror film that is called simply "Shook" enjoy.
The plot of this film is social media star Mia agrees to look after her sisters dog but what should be an easy night of dog sitting turns into a night terror and Mia must figure out who is killing her friends before she ends up dead. In turns of what I thought about the plot of this film the plot of this film really wasn't that bad nd the plot of this film was told really well in my opinion and while the plot of this film is as far as can tell pretty original the film doesn't go as far as it could with it's premise and as such the premise feels like it wasn't fully thought out in my opinion.
Starring in the film is Daisye Tutor as Mia , Emily Goss as Nicole , Nicola Posener as Lani and Stephanie Simbari as Jade. Also starring in this film is , Octavius J. Johnson as Santi , Grant Rosenmeyer as The Voice Of Kellan , Jeremy Bolden as Big Mike and Youtuber Genelle Seldon as Genelle. I'm honestly shocked that the film didn't cast more Youtubers or social influencers in this film since the main character is meant to be a social influencers as such I feel that it would have made sense if the film had cast more social influencers in the film in my opinion.
As for what I thought about the acting in this film in all honesty the acting in this film is alot better then it really had any right to be in my opinion. Since this film is basically a low budget independent horror film as such no one can blame the makers of this film for choosing actors that are cheap to get for this film but to all of the actors credit they all turn in some passable performances in this film which trust a passable performance is lot more then what this film deserves in my humble opinion.
One of the things that really bugged about this film is the fact that the film starts a plotline about someone going around and killing dogs which you'd think is going to be the main plot of the movie or will play a part in the movie. However you'd be wrong because the film doesn't address that plot line a all hell it doesn't play a part in the movie it's something that's brought up once or twice and that's it which considering that this plotline is what starts of the actual plot of the film really shouldn't be the case at all since in my opinion the person who is going around killing these people's dogs should be the person who is putting our hero Mia through all of this pain and torture but that's just what I think anyways.
Now believe it or not this is my first watching a Shudder original film (for those that don't know what Shudder is it's basically Netflix but for horror fans and Shudder just has horror shows and horror movies) as such I cannot say if this is there best film or not. However i'm now official open to watching Shudder original films just because I truly believe that it keeps you open to new faces in horror as well as new horror stories that you most likely won't get from either going to the movies / cinema or from watching a horror show or movie on Netflix or any other streaming service in my opinion.
The editing in this film is so freaking obnoxious that it's honestly laughable in my opinion and I say this because. All throughout the film the film will occasionally play whatever video Mia is playing (on either her phone or on what I assume is her laptop) and the video will appear usually on a large wall behind Mia for literally no reason whatsoever and again for no reason whatever the film will occasionally have who ever it is talking to appear at the ide of Mia to whisper whatever it is there saying to her and it just comes across so freaking obnoxious like I honestly feel that the films writer and director Jennifer Harrington thought that she was making an artsy type of film and yet she forgot that she was making a low budget independent horror film and thus she forgot to make the film fun in my opinion.
Now then believe it or no this film actually does have somewhat of a mystery angle to it and I say somewhat because even tho Mia doesn't know who the person torturing her is the film never goes to any length to fully develop that mystery. As such I have to say that this is a very poorly done mystery since the film offers you no clues as to who the person who is torturing Mia and as such what its revealed who the person who is torturing Mia it comes out of nowhere all of these reasons make the mystery in this film a bad mystery in my opinion.
Now then this film ha a running time of one hour and twenty eight minuets and fifty nine seconds so let's round that up to one hour and twenty nine minuets. I have to say that that running time feels about right for this film since there really isn't enough story to cover any thing even close to two hours or even one hour and thirty five minuets altho I would have liked it if the film gave more time to the mystery angle since then we could find out more about the person who is torturing Mia and we could actually get some clues so we the audience as well as Mia can work out who the person torturing her really is but that's just what I think tho.
Now then there are some deaths in this film and that means that I have to talk about the deaths that are in the actual film itself. In my opinion the deaths in this film were done pretty badly since we don't get to see any of the deaths in the actual film all we see is the aftermath of the death which might work for an artsy type of film but it doesn't work for a horror film since in a horror film your audience wants to see the characters die and not see the aftermath of the death as such be denying the chance for the audience to see the characters die your also denying your audience the very thing that they came to or in this clicked on your film to see in my opinion.
Overall the best word that I can use to describe this film is average because it doesn't go all the way with it's plot and it doesn't go all the way with it's characters either. As such this film feels average and while I have talked about the good things in this film as well the bad things that are in this film in this very review I have no choice but to say that in my opinion at this a bad horror film that should be avoided by any self respecting horror fan in my opinion and this film gets a 4.5 out of 10 from me , as for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got the images that I used in this review from Google Images and the official Horror film fandom wiki page and my preferr3ed website for the images that I used in this review has to be Google Images since that's really the only website that has a wide collection of images from this film and as always horror fans we end this review as we always do with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.
