Review #68: Haunt (2019)
This review was originally written in October 2019. October Horror Movie Review #16: Haunt So, while watching this movie I kept going back and forth between really enjoying it and being perplexed as to what kind of a movie I was watching. For much of the film it's a fun Halloween horror flick, but the tone and the style keeps changing and I can't tell how seriously it's taking itself. It's directed by Eli Roth so I'm inclined to think it's just having a good time, but some parts of it really turned me off and I'm not entirely sure why. Haunt is about a group of friends (question mark?) that go to a haunted house attraction on Halloween night, which starts off exciting but then the effects start getting a bit too realistic. If it had remained with that premise for the whole film (much like Hellfest, of which this movie seemed like a carbon copy for the first half hour) then I think I would've felt much more favorably towards it; but it becomes this self-s...