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I wish IMDB had a way to rate a movie in more ways than one.

For instance, this movie, as a horror, gets a 3. And that's me being generous.

If however, I could rate it as a comedy, I'd give it a 7.

The way Hollywood producers are going about things nowadays, I'm pretty sure they'd like this option as well. Anything for better reviews, right boys?

Its just a mess full of stereotypes, miscasting, and poor production all around.

I'm glad that the people who worked on it were able to make a living while doing so. At least the cast and crew being able to pay their bills for a few months/weeks are some good that came out of this.

This isn't the worst movie I've seen recently, but like most movies coming out these it's just not good. There's a kernel of a good idea here that just is never fully developed in order to get to a quick resolution that doesn't have any kind of logic behind it.

The characters just don't have anything to make them unique or make you care. I've noticed this in almost all the movies I've seen from the last few years. Writers have forgotten how to write compelling characters we care about. Nobody has any personality and characters are just introduced with no backstory like we're supposed to just naturally connect with them. This is one of my biggest pet peeves in film these days. You can get around a lot of bad writing and low budgets if you just have compelling characters and good actors. The craft has been lost.

The plot is basic and tries to carry some message about parents getting over protective about technology and social media trends, but it just doesn't land. None of the plot points are developed well and the story jumps from point A to point D and never explains how we got there. This was obviously put together with no passion just to get something out there. Lazy

The horror elements are PG at most. We never see much of anything. The monster looks ridiculous more than scary. Again some of this could have worked if anyone cared enough to put a little time and effort in.

All in all this goes in the trash heap of streamer movies. It's obvious that with the streaming wars in full force the goal for all of them is just to have a mountain of content. It doesn't matter if any of it is actually good. Just rush out a bunch of amateurish content to show how much you have to offer. It's just all so bad.

Not the worst movie but not worth wasting time on and will be forgotten before I finish typing this.

I don't know if this was some millennial attempt at being modern and hip to old boring same-ol-same-ol horror tropes. To their credit, it was well mad cinematicly, the writing didn't hurt, and the acting wasn't as bad as most horror films of this nature. The narration being done in ASMR knocked off most of the stars from my rating. It was like Chinese water torture on my ears. I had to mute the tv and read the subtitles at one point. It was so distracting trying to remember most of the rest of the movie when it ended in a "dramatic" monologue addressed to the audience and their parents. All in ASMR whispering and finger rubbing. I just couldn't.

From the beginning this movie is just not good. From the scene of the gurl whispering while making a video to the very end the movie is just painful.

I can only assume that it was trying to be some big meaningful movie that taught someone a lesson about something but it just doesn't work.

None of the characters are believable, none and I do mean none of the acting is good. The script is ridiculous and the delivery is between wooden and plastic.

The story itself doesn't make any sense and is not fully explained. Characters are unlikable and do things no person would ever do.

The "Creature" design is terrible and the effects were barely passable.

I was reminded in parts of "Death Note" and "The Babadook" so I'm guessing the writer has seen those movies but paid no attention to what made them work.

I can't recommend this movie at all. It deserves the low rating and hopefully will vanish quickly.

"I'm not gonna give up my phone. They can't just take our phones away, that's fascist. We'll go to the police if we have to."

Yep...that is an actual line in this movie quoted verbatim, and that's not even the worst of it. Whoever wrote this, needs to find something else to do with their time. Whoever greenlit this, needs to be fired, black listed, and never be allowed to have anything to do with any movie ever again for the rest of time.

Acting...terrible. Cast...terrible. Script...terrible. I think you get my point by now. I'm not just hatin' on this either, look at all the other reviews. They're all saying practically the same thing. I will say, the Grimcutty is kinda freaky looking and it was nice to see that it wasn't CGI. In fact, that's the only reason I didn't one star this is because I'm old school and I prefer real life special effects and real life props over CGI.

If I don't stop here and now, I'll never be able to. This movie is an atrocious pile of steaming dung and should be thrown in a pit and buried and viewed by no one ever unless looking for a unique way to torture someone. This is a prime example of why today's youth is just a giant doomsday that will end everything as we know it in the near future. Skip this movie unless you're into inflicting pain and torture on yourself.

This film feels like it was written by the same kind of people that tried to get rock and metal banned in the US in the 80's. It's a Tipper Gore level of ignorant writing that sees itself as relevant to the times without understanding how obnoxiously tone-deaf it really is.

Thanks to the agitating writing and script, every character is its own flavor of an annoying idiot. Everyone feels like a parody, or the way a modern day Karen might view normal people through their own narrow and skewed point of view. Nobody makes rational decisions, everyone is an uncomfortable level of weird, and the film as a whole feels like a high budget advertisement for ASMR, which just makes ASMR more annoying than it already was.

I don't believe many things can be a 1 or a 10 but Grimcutty is undoubtedly a 1 star film. There is absolutely nothing redeemable about any part of this film.

The acting is awful, the characters are so so poorly written, the horror is eye rollingly bad, the pacing is disgraceful... Do I need to go on? By far the worst film I've seen this year and possibly one of the worst films I've ever seen. The story is so bad that it's not even "so bad it's good".

I'd seriously rather spend 2 hours testing out which body part bleeds the most after a paper cut.

Do not watch this garbage. Instead, pour paint thinner into your eyeballs.

This movie is absolutely ludicrous. Not only is every character stupid, the entire concept is painful. I am in physical pain from the the utter stupidity of this premise. On top of that I absolutely abhor ASMR. That's a personal gripe, but I know I'm not the only one.

Asha is such a desperate, unintelligent, one-dimensional caricature of a teenager. Every teen in this movie is a shallow cardboard cutout of a person. All of the parents in this movie are absolutely ridiculous. One or two is believable, but an entire town of parents is insane.

There is not a single redeeming quality to this movie. It's not interesting enough to be a fun watch, it's not REMOTELY good, so there's really no reason to waste your time. I watched it so you don't have to.

This movie was worth the entertainment value it provides. Most of the other reviews that were dissecting every aspect of this movie are also the ones who complain about anything in movies being unrealistic and therefor a stupid movie.

Was it a great movie? Of course not. Was it worth the 1 and 2 star reviews people have given it? Definitely not!

If you're looking for a movie with an interesting premise and a creepy aspect about it, go for it!

If you're expecting an Oscar for Best Picture, move right along. But I doubt you are if you're even considering this movie.

The acting is terribly great, but it's not terribly poor either. I've never thought Shannyn Sossamon had a whole lot of emotion in films, but it's fine. Some of it is intentional, and I do think just a little bit more build in to the story itself might have been warranted. And I'm not a fan of ASMR, but thankfully that's only 2 parts of the movie.

The rest is an interesting twist on the whole "we're addicted to our phones" thing by turning the usual points made about it, somewhat on its head.

Obviously everyone has their own opinion, but don't take the mistake that some reviewers have, and take it so literally and seriously!

I had to laugh at this premise, yeah he is creepy looking but I'm a horror buff on all kinds of scary movies so maybe I'm desensitized more than the average.

But I'll say here that the writing the dialogue was pretty bad and it kind of jumps out at you. I like Shannon Sossaman in the movies she's grown up playing a mom here, but even she couldn't save the movie.

It wasn't so much the Grimcutty character I mean he was well done and with another better script it could have been decent, along the lines of Lights Out or The Boy along those lines but this one was silliness to me. Kind of insulting.

I Actually really enjoyed this flick because it was a parody of a hoax that occurred in 2018 that had some parents acting the same way like they was in the movie. Reading the other reviews and reading they didn't get it made me chuckle. Yes the acting was not on par but it is a horror flick, a cheesy one that was meant to mock real life. The actual creature was so close to the "Momo" character I found it funny. The meaning behind the movie actually was on point to parents taking something they read off the internet and just running with it and judging their kids on a none proven fact, it's the whole thing when you point and a finger at someone 3 are pointing at you.

I actually found this film quite enjoyable and could see the social adaptation intended. It was well acted, though the parents were annoying; but let's face it, parent are annoying especially when they are being irrational and authoritarian without empathy. There has been some commentary in other posts about script and dialogue, where fascism is mentioned when phones are taken away but that comment in the movie came from a teen. If reviewers remember what it was like being a teen and parents were being restrictive, fascism is exactly what it felt like. Overall the movie tried to show both sides of the teen- parent dynamic, worrying and not understanding what youth "are into" and the imagined threat because of that lack of relating /understanding. The "creature" did look ridiculous, but that seemed to be intentional and a reflection of what was being conveyed in the movie. It really didn't deserve the low scores.

I did not watch the trailer for this movie and went off the main synopsis, so I went into this movie blind. After watching Grimcutty (2022) I can say it was an interesting horror movie, but it was not great.

The main idea of the movie was good, and I liked the idea it went into of how kids or teens can be affected by digital media. The Grimcutty meme or challenge in the movie shows how dumb challenges or memes online cannot be good for kids and/or teens.

The design of the Grimcutty monster was a little creepy but I also laughed at it because I thought it looked silly. The effects on it were hard to tell if it was CGI, someone in a suit, or a mixture of both.

The acting is not great and some of the performances can be over the top when they are trying to act chaotic. There are also scenes that I thought were not needed or were not used right, while also sometimes not having much of an explanation.

Grimcutty (2022) was not that good, but it did have some promising ideas. They just needed better acting and not take something silly looking too serious.

The amount of over the top ridiculous "acting" doesn't even put this in the comedy category as someone else mentioned. It's just pathetically terrible.

Mom and dad are over protective bubble parents, worrying over everything online, but find their daughter with a massive 6 inch gash in her forearm that's at least an inch deep.... nope that's fine, just a few suture style bandaid should do it.

Never mind that there's zero blood on any of the knives she supposedly used to cut herself.

Also, who tf has a detox box, let alone half the town having them????

Her massive leap in logic about figuring out that it's the parents controlling it, is totally out of left field.

Daughter breaks into original woman's house, finds a kid locked in a padded closet, mom comes along right after and rather than listen to her about being told the woman had a gun and was pointing it in her face... she smacks her in the mouth. Yup seems reasonable....

Saying all that, the camerawork wasn't terrible.

As much as I thought that this might be ok it seemed to be a wasted opportunity. Shannyn Sossamon couldn't save this mess even thought she was great to watch. The flip she made at the end was worth the wait. However The father of the main character was more scary than the over produced 'scary' villain. He was a painfully bad actor and never quite nailed the anxious parnet. Save your time and just give this a miss. Or better still watch the first ten minutes and then skip to the las ten. I felt like this made it bearable to watch and process. While this was a miss it does get points for diversity the main character were brown with non mainstream names. However I wonder if this was another stab at ethnic standards and 'controlled kids' I'll give it the the benefit of the doubt.

If garbage was to exist,this would be it. The movie doesn't explain the origin of grimcutty. I fall a sleep while watching this movie. Let me give credit where its due, i thought the monster was somehow scary. I had this feeling of wanting more from this film, like lets supporting characters die. The little grimcutty is on screen there is no effect it just feel like a bad movie just existing. The plot was vague no need to explain anything that was going on . Meme comes to life and it start hunting children due to their parents hysteria. If you are planning to watch this movie please dont. Its 🚮

The movie isn't "scary" but it is enjoyable. I like the fact that it tackles the issue of how the internet has made parents overreact to issues that their children will probably never have heard about if they didn't overreact in the first place.

It's worth a watch, but the rewatchablity is almost zero.

The acting is okay as long as you don't go into it expecting Oscar award winning performances, but let's be honest, it's a horror movie so if you were expecting that, that's on you not the movie.

I think too many people expect too much from horror movies anymore. This movie is pretty good compared to most horror movies released straight to streaming/TV anymore.

I have to say i quite enjoyed this horror movie. Will probably be more relatable to social media brigade but enjoyable none the less. A real creepy looking monster and a few scares along the way. Lead was quite likeable and rest of cast gave good supporting roles. Nothing to gory, makes more of a scare in the tense built up to altercations with the protaganist and the ending although seemed a bit predictable was enjoyable none the less. Special effects were a C+ or a B. Its definatly worth a watch for something a bit different. You wont be disapointed a nd maybe relate to those of us who have children that are glue to social media.

Pretty watchable. Unique concept. The Grimcutty creature wasn't particularly scary, more cartoonish than anything, but I thought it was well-acted and the premise was symbolic of the negative influence some social media has on society. And on our young people in particular, .

The movie was better than I thought it would be, and as a parent, I identified with the movie parents trying to protect their kids from the dark side of the internet.

I think this movie was a a fresh look at the subject of the overuse of our phones, tablets and laptops these days.

We tend to panic if we don't have our devices at our sides at all times, after all.

The storyline is good, the acting is decent, the cinematography is even done well. The reason it didn't get at least 8 stars? The "Grimcutty" character looked like a 5 year old with a creation app made it on the fly one day. It looks so incredibly fake that I couldn't take it seriously. It honestly looks like someone took Gru from the Minions movies and got him possessed by a demon. I can better appreciate a horror monster that looks like it COULD be real - this was done terribly...I have seen better and more realistic Halloween costumes.

I ONLY recommend this movie on the chance that you can ignore how crappy the villian is. As I stated above, good plotline, good camera work and decent acting...they just lost the ball with the title character.