"It was one of the three or four most highly anticipated horror films going into 2025. Yet, it also turned out to be the most disappointing one we saw this year. It's pretty much rubbish from start to finish, yet the last half is such an uninspired convoluted mess of Apocalypse Now and Walking Dead (with Ralph Fiennes coming in somewhere between Daryl Dixon and Marlon Brando) that you'll be sorry for watching it."
"2. Him Take a seat and let director Justin Tipping hit you over the head, repeatedly, with the point that society puts too much emphasis on The G.O.A.T. especially in sports. Yes, it's a worthy point to make, yet it's hard to imagine a worse way to make it than in this horror/sports epic that manages to fail both film genres."
"3. The Long Walk One Stephen King adaptation hit it out the park (The Monkey) in 2025, while this one which King published in 1979 under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman should've never gotten into the game. Failing at the fundamentals, from simple dialogue to character development to shot selection, this bore of a film should've been called The Long Watch."
Five 2025 horror films receive strong negative assessments and are recommended to avoid. 28 Years Later was highly anticipated but proved rubbish overall, with an uninspired, convoluted final half invoking Apocalypse Now and The Walking Dead and a miscast Ralph Fiennes. Him is a horror/sports hybrid that hits audiences with a heavy-handed critique of idolizing the G.O.A.T. and fails both genres. The Long Walk, a Stephen King/Richard Bachman adaptation, collapses on dialogue, character development, and shot selection. Death of a Unicorn relies on a single joke — a killer unicorn. I Know What You Did Last Summer disappoints despite fondness for the 1997 original and 1998 follow-up.
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