Influenza

This movie has all the warning signs—it's described as a "horror comedy", and the synopsis starts with "A group of social media influencers..."—so I knew what I was getting into.

And, I have to say, it took a while for the setup to get going, a movie about social media influencers trapped in a haunted villa shouldn't take like 30 minutes to get them trapped in the haunted villa, the entire longwinded set up is totally disposable. And, even once everything is somewhat explained, the basic reason for just about any of it is, "because, movie."

But: this is a movie made by reasonably capable filmmakers who seemed to know just how silly the whole premise is, and decided to milk it for what they could. They baldfacedly embrace absolute silliness like, "This is the house where the first-ever influencer killed herself, and now all the ghosts of influencers who committed suicide are trapped here!" It never gets less silly that that.

And, while it's not really an outright "horror comedy" (thankfully) it does have moments of underplayed humor. "I'm terrified!" "How come you don't look scared?" "Uh... botox?"

Ultimately—wierdly—except for the slow beginning, it's ever-so-slightly above average for this kind of ridiculous movie. That is NOT a recommendation. But, it is a recognition. I'm not even going to mark it "watchable", because it's simply not a good movie. However, it's among the better bad movies.


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