Model House

Going to a special get-together, a young model looking to join a group of other models on a photoshoot retreat making content for their usage, but when the house is invaded by a group of armed psychos looking to scam free money out of their followers, they must get away alive.

This was a fairly underwhelming genre effort. About the only thing that works with this one is the final half where this one tends to finally bring about some intriguing action to go along with its concept. Spending most of the film featuring the group trying to accommodate their orders and getting more desperate to survive, the attempts to fight back generate a modicum of suspense and intrigue with the chasing around the house, the various escape attempts, and numerous opportunities to get the upper hand on the other provide this with a solid series of encounters that are usually quite fun. Giving us some decent blood and gore in the situation, these all manage to get some worthwhile elements to the film while there are some big issues here holding this one down. The main detriment here is the absolutely unlikable and completely unwatchable main group of girls that we're supposed to be following throughout here who are such vapid, shallow, self-centered airheads that are just not worth the time. Typical modern social media-obsessed figures that are so cluelessly inconsiderate of anything beyond the likes and followers they have on their accounts, constantly starting drama over the most useless facets of their career as possible and just completely wasting any opportunity to be sympathetic or likable in any regard, the simple premise of the film is set up to be doomed from the beginning as there's nothing to be had here from spending time around them. On top of that, it's nearly impossible to care about the intruders who are putting one of the most insultingly stupid and lame invasion attempts on the screen. Utilizing the experience to scam their followers out of money through a phony donation link on their accounts is a wholly pathetic attempt to try to comment on the dangers of social media as there's just nothing that intimidating or threatening about what's going on with their invasion of the house. Since it's not about physically threatening them either but keeping them hostage until they can gain the money they want, so much of this one is about keeping them unharmed so there's no danger in what's going on which causes a slew of boredom to emerge throughout here and leaving the film with a series of issues holding it down.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.