 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. This is for the 2020 release fear farm and Since this film is from 2020. I'm not gonna have spoilers in this really So, you know, you can check it out yourself Either check out this video after you've seen it check out this video before you've seen it and either way it should You know give you some idea of how I felt about the film and break down a few things that Mainly I had issues with I do need to say up front I wasn't a big fan of this film at all, but that Needs to come with a disclaimer and the disclaimer basically is I Have a lot of respect for filmmakers in general for every filmmaker pretty much except Glenn Danzig But other than that every filmmaker I have respect for so even if it's a film I don't like I hope there are fans out there of those films. I know there's at least one person I know of who recommended this film to me who does like it. So that's a good thing I always hope that when people make film that they find an audience for this film. I am not the audience I actually have a long list of things I didn't like about the film and I'll talk about that but just know that if anyone who is involved in the film sees this review I have a lot of respect for you for just making a film because I know it's not easy. So There you go. And hopefully this can be taken as constructive criticism. So This is directed by Dante Yor who did fear farm to yes, there was a fear farm to I don't know if that's out yet. I didn't actually check But I found it interesting that they were releasing fear farm and fear farm to in the same year Or at least trying to I assume that maybe they shot the whole thing For both films at the same time, but I'm not 100% sure. He also did films the fragile unknown and all of you will die This was written by your as well as mark s Allen and Howard bird who worked together on scripts for fear farm to an Apparition and ball buster, which that one looked kind of interesting. It looks like a comedy, maybe This was filmed at cool pumpkin patch in Dixon, California Which is actually the largest corn maze in the United States at over 60 acres Which I thought was really interesting trivia and I will say that there are a bunch of drone shots Well, I think this is like three separate times in the film where they do kind of like a drone shot of a large Expans of the corn maze and it is impressive It's very very cool And I will say one of the things I liked about this film is the location the corn maze location is a great idea This specific corn maze, especially when you see the drone footage is very impressive very interesting looking So I like that aspect of it. So location idea good I'm down with that. So quick synopsis of it basically bunch of young kids probably in their 20s is what it seems like Go to a haunted corn maze and things aren't good I mean, that's basically all I want to say because I don't want to I don't want to give too much of the film Away because there is a twist in the end like there is an actual twist to the film And I'll talk about my thoughts on the twist without telling you what the twist is But I'll go over earlier stuff in the film first It does have a good opening scene that really is a good attention grabber which a lot of good films do have that So I was very happy initially with that kind of attention grabbing scene and the music with it was good And this kind of gets to one of the things where the music is kind of very Jekyll and Hyde in this film Where I feel like when it's the parts that are supposed to be more scary more tense The music is good and it matches and I like that music, but when the music's more You know run-of-the-mill things going on things that are more light-hearted You know, it's not trying to be scarier tense that music is not good and it's very generic and corny slash cheesy, so It's that's why I say it's kind of like a Jekyll and Hyde with the music. I Like the way they handle texting in the film early on there's texting. There's not a ton of it in the film But the way they handle texting is good because there are plenty of films I've seen where the way they handle texting is they just show you just the screen and Just seeing you know the text going back and forth What they did in this which I think is the best way to do it in film is you show the person Texting and you're kind of looking over their shoulder, so you're seeing the screen and them You know actually acting in the scene and then they're kind of having like a pop-out of The text messages as they're going back and forth next to the phone I think that's the best way visually to do it and also it's interesting because then you can actually see the actor Interacting in the scene, so I like how they handle that The camera work is pretty unstable in this film Which really annoys me that stuff really really annoys me because we have tripods and I think that yes I get that there are certain shots like you need to just have it Handheld or over the shoulder or whatever in order to get exactly what you're going for but you need to stabilize it the best you can There are ways to rig up kind of really cheap and it makes Inexpensive like counterweight situations where you can kind of keep it more stable The camera works really unstable in this film so much so that at times where it's supposed to be a stable shot It's like you're on a boat kind of like see song back and forth And it's a little bit nauseating You know when there's too much motion of the camera like that for me I get a little bit nauseous from time to time and this film kind of induced a low level of that for me, so Not good. You gotta you really need to to figure something out with that camera work The dialogue is written to be pretty believable in my opinion As in the the way the sentences are structured and everything now the delivery of the lines Not the greatest the acting is Really all over the place in this film There are certain moments where it feels like the actors are kind of like in their more inspired moments And they're really kind of nailing it for what the material is and then there are moments where they're really flubbing it I feel like and it's very very inconsistent overall. I would say the acting is I Mean it's an independent film. It's very low budget. You can tell so You know that stuff's, you know, forgivable to a degree There's a bunch of comedy in the beginning of the film that feels off Actually, there's a bunch of comedy in the film throughout I thought it was just gonna be in the beginning because a lot of horror films will do that where it's like Interductory when you're not doing the stuff where it's supposed to be scary intense. It's just comedy. It's funny stuff It's entertaining They tried to keep it the whole way through and I don't feel like it works for that reason It made me feel like the film was very confused. Do you want it to be a horror comedy? Do you want it to be scary or do you want it to be a scary horror comedy? Because the mix of how it was ends up being none of that and it just feels confused It's very muddled and I don't think it works. The other thing is a lot of the comedic stuff I don't think was very funny and part of that has to do with some of the actual concept of what the funny Things were supposed to be but some of it ends up being line delivery how it's acted out that just doesn't land because of that It just doesn't work. It just doesn't work Already read that There's a part where people are getting scanned into the attraction this haunted corn maze and it's very poorly handled that scene They use they're using basically Excuse me, they're using like a little black light to kind of check people in and then there's this really weird sound effect Associated with it. I mean I understand why they did it. I definitely understand why they did it But it looks and sounds terrible. It's very cheesy. It they there's a different way you could have done this There's definitely different ways you could have done this. It just it doesn't it wasn't pulled off well Directing and cinematography in this while there are some kind of more inspired shots in the film For the most part, it's very basic There are a lot of scenes where they're kind of just setting up the same types of shots very very basic shots just to get what's going on Like I said, there are a few moments where it seems kind of inspired and there's like a flash of inspiration But for the most part, it's just very basic very very basic There's way too much setup before the meat of this film way way way too much setup I think there's needed to be a lot shaved down from the beginning of it Things don't really get going and get really interesting until about 40 minutes into the film and the film film with credits is only an hour and 19 minutes so The fact that it feels slow and it does feel slow and you feel like for a lot of the time There's kind of filler thrown in there That's not a good thing at an hour and 19 minutes. It really should be cut down Now if there's anything that a film like host has taught us then that is we don't even have to get near an hour and a half You can just give us an hour film or give us under an hour film called a feature film And that's what it is, you know, don't just throw an extra stuff just throw an extra stuff Now with this I think a lot of the extra stuff in this film was because it was supposed to be this comedy aspect to it But like I said, it didn't really end up working at least for me me personally so Just saying Like I said, you know, hopefully there are a lot of people who liked it, you know Characters are not likable in this the characters are very one-dimensional There's really not much of any development whatsoever and therefore you don't feel endeared to the characters So you don't really care when the stakes get high. You don't care when it's scary You don't care when it's supposed to be tense You don't care about any of that and the characters You know in addition to you not really feeling much about them because they're not really well established or developed they're just Like they're they're they're actually not likable like you are annoyed by them a lot of the time especially because Some of them are just so over the top the way they're written and the things that they say and the how funny they try to be That you're kind of like can we just get to offing these characters right now because I don't need them on screen anymore So, yeah Just about every scene in this film goes on a bit too long It's where the editing needed to come into play to kind of edit all those scenes down a little bit But like I said, I think they were trying to get as close to kind of an hour and a half or an hour and 20 minutes as possible So that becomes a problem. It just feels like every scene is just too long There's some good-looking drone footage of the corn maze. I already talked about that looks impressive. I did like that It doesn't I already talked about that one It does that it doesn't really get good until 40 minutes in and even then it still feels confused like I was saying with the comedy versus scary and You know, what is it here? The action sequences are very clumsily Choreographed and executed. That's another thing. You can see moments with these action action type Scenes where people there's pauses of people waiting for the other person to do something And it's it's not super long But it's long enough that it kind of like throws a speed bump in the scene and you feel it Like as an audience member you definitely notice it So they needed to do maybe some tricks with camera work to make that a little bit smoother Uh, is this supposed to be funny scary or both because it ends up being none of that Like I was saying just how confused the film is There are moments where they randomly speed up the film And it's really weird and it's not where you would assume Well, actually they did a few of these where it's during like the action type sequences where they needed to make it look like You know like someone was slashing someone or someone was punching someone or something like that Where you do it slower and then you speed that up like I understand that and that usually works But they do it in other times where that stuff's not happening They'll just like randomly speed up the motions of a character And I think it was supposed to give an effect of being like kind of scary But it's just weird and it definitely doesn't work. It's just odd. So I didn't really understand that choice Um, the end reveal of what's really going on Is actually kind of a ridiculous concept I give them points for trying to do something different with the actual You know twist at the end It's original and so points for that so good idea coming up with that concept, but The way it's introduced and the way it's talked about and the way it plays out It's ridiculous. It's just like over the top ridiculous and I was like, is it supposed to be that way? Or is it supposed to be like people are seeing this and being like, oh man, that's crazy because that's not I mean, it's not how it came across to me. It just really isn't um So in summation I put the location is cool and they tried something original in the end So I have respect for that like I said, I respect for all filmmakers except glendanzig That's all I have to say about that. So anyway, um, yeah, I mean, that's that's all I have to say about the film Obviously, I'm not a fan of this and like I said, hopefully there are people are fans And if you are I'd love to hear in the comments your rebuttal to some of the things I was talking about You know, what did you really love about the film? I'd love to hear that and also, you know, do you agree with me? Do you not agree with me? Are you in the middle? Whatever just your opinions? Let's put it in the comments and you can do spoilers in the comments So that's fine. We can do spoilers in the comments. So people know that now out of five stars with half stars in play I'm very sorry, but I got to give this a one star rating. 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