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| Don't Click (2020) Movie Review: A Must-See Thriller |
Do you want to know what happens when you click on that email you should have avoided? In this suspenseful thriller, the answer is revealed. I won’t spoil the movie for you.
You’ll just have to go in knowing as little as possible. Don’t click is a must-see movie for anyone who loves thrillers or just wants to know what to do when you see that email from your boss.
It’s always exciting when a film gets released that you’ve been anticipating and eagerly waiting for. Especially when it’s a thriller. I was really excited to see Don't Click (2020) and I wasn’t disappointed.
In fact, I’ve been recommending it to all of my friends. For those of you who haven’t seen it, it’s about a family that’s driving to their cabin for the weekend and they get a flat tire and they have to stop at a gas station.
There’s a creepy guy at the gas station who offers them help, but they don’t think too much of it. But he keeps coming. Here’s everything we know so far about the Don't Click (2020) Movie:
Cast and characters:
Valter Skarsgård - Josh
Mark Koufos - Zane
Catherine Howard - Maya
Geoff Mays - The Salary Man
May Grehan - Shannon
Samantha Hart - Red Headed Woman
Directed By - G-Hey Kim
Review - bit.ly/3gtIe6S
Genre - Horror
Language - English
Release Date - 11 December 2020
Don’t Click 2020 Movie Review
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| Don’t Click 2020 Movie Review |
Shiro Tagachi Don't Click is a modern horror-thriller that features a story that’s both intriguing and original. While Don’t Click is a science fiction thriller about an evil entity that is taking over people’s bodies, there is a heavy influence from horror icon Roger Corman in this film, from the archetypal lead villain to the high production values.
It’s a straight shot into an intriguing, and at times, downright terrifying plot that is only slowed down by the characters’ inability to empathize with one another. The film starts with a young man named Mark (Ty Olwin) waking up in the basement of an apartment building, with the demon hovering over him.
Synopsis
Ten years ago, Jack Deighton (Philip Brodie) and Miles McCurdy (Preston Joseph) were best friends who looked out for one another. Now, Jack is no longer around and Miles is a big-shot lawyer who has landed a big client.
But on a Saturday night, two years after Jack's death, Miles is killed in a gas explosion in his office building. Luckily for him, the building is converted into a luxury hotel and Miles now lies in a mysterious cellar, located deep under the hotel's lobby.
As it turns out, the cellar is now filled with souls that are eager to get out of the realm of Purgatory, and in order to do that, a lone gatekeeper (Christopher Fitzgerald) must choose the right soul and make it through the three gates of the dungeon.
Review
Gloria Ryan (Chloe Siede) and Aurore Siede (Nikki Ohizumi) are finishing up finals at the beginning of 2019. They and their best friend and roommate Nikki (Noel Wells) are excited to go to their friend's house for a Halloween party.
That's where they are invited by their friend Lucas (Robbie Gaylor) to their basement. After about an hour there, Nikki begins to act weird. Gloria decides to go to Lucas's place to use the bathroom.
In the bathroom, she learns that Nikki is tied up in the dungeon. Don't Click is a 2020 Canadian horror feature film directed by Ross Duff and written by Lisa Rubin.
It was based on Duff's short film Don't Click that was first released in 2015. Don't Click has an audience rating of 7.8 on IMDB and gets an average of 4.7 on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Good
Don’t Click has a fascinating and unique premise. The young male characters are inexperienced – one as a janitor, and the other a home video camera salesman.
They’re both bitten and possess horrific abilities and then, when they do things which makes them both quit their jobs, a shady businessman buys the souls of the young men, making them indentured servants in his dungeon.
This is all framed within the setting of a commercial, exploring how things made a significant impact on people in this period of history. It’s effectively creepy. The cast is excellent. Zachary Quinto is particularly compelling in the lead role.
For those who remember the popular video game Don’t Stand Too Close to a Naked Woman, I guarantee Don’t Click will remind you a lot of this.
The Bad
The hero is a wimpy, self-righteous loser who also has body image issues and a huge chip on his shoulder. There’s no hint of an existing character, and with the exception of some trademark fog and grungy prison interiors, there aren't even many special effects in this movie.
What little eye candy we see is pretty ugly stuff, especially during a scene that involves a gun which contains a machine gun. As someone who’s watched a lot of low-budget horror movies, I can say without hesitation that the work here is decidedly average.
The Ugly Cinematographer Randall Mathern doesn’t know how to use black to create a mood, and looks more like he was hired to work on an episode of NCIS or CSI. The first thing we see in the movie is some 20-somethings in a brightly lit room with their fists up.
The Ugly
Danielle Vodevos does nothing to infuse the acting work of Will Swenson and Rob Bissette with a sense of urgency, and the dialogue is as stale and nonsensical as you’d expect. Don’t Click isn’t actually about anything, but it's dreary, largely empty narrative is likely to stick in your head for hours.
Fun Filled There are a few amusing moments, but they’re drowned out by the bad dialogue and cliche-ridden villain. There’s also a pretty big CGI ballerina sequence that’s pretty much over before it starts and a few nasty scars.
Lights, Camera, Action It’s a complete shock to discover that Don’t Click is the work of an Israeli director named Shalom Bem Weber. Unlike his other film, Scars, this one has a production budget of only $5,000.
Rating
3.5/5 Welcome to DontClick.com, the website where the evil clowns hang out. The little voice in your head tells you that it's impossible for something this bad to exist. You and the two other unfortunate visitors to this site are brought together because you have something in common: you can see the four different clowns.
You can only see them as an animated GIF on the website. The clowns are immortal, but not immortal enough to withstand your internet powers. While on the website you can choose to fight the evil clowns or let them eat you alive.
The website looks familiar because it is based on a scene in 2014's Don't Breathe, the best Stephen King movie to date. In the first film you watched Jigsaw kill his victims with guns and saw him from a distance.
Trailer
Don’t Click doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. It’s the “Slender Man” sequel that doesn’t want to be a Slender Man sequel. What are you supposed to do with it? The man-masked menace was initially teased in an Internet forum about Slender Man being real.
This was when the studio behind it was the distributor of Slender Man’s script, Amulet Pictures, the same company behind Don’t Click. Even though Slender Man is still one of the most prolific horror tropes of our times, Don’t Click doesn’t want to play into the Slender Man hype.
It’s a fact of the movie business that you rarely make a sequel to your first film. Don’t Click is a bit like Antichrist. It’s the same movie that made $89.2M worldwide despite not being a sequel.
Conclusion
Don't Click is the sort of movie that has just enough low-key creepy scares, odd concepts and Canadian patriotism to be an entertaining ride. Reviewed by KatmovieHD.