PYEWACKET - streaming on AMC+
This is a prime example of how just because a film screened at a prestigious festival doesn’t always mean that it’s good. To wit, I really had high hopes for this endeavor since it premiered at TIFF a few years back, plus the trailer made it look cool and promising.
Sadly, it’s a run-of-the-mill teen angst and emotionally distraught parent story, albeit wrapped up in supernatural undertones. To make matters worse, all of the characters are one-dimensional, the plot is pretty predictable (the ending terribly so), and the lack of necessary exposition just seems lazy.
On the one hand the slow-burn pacing does create a certain sense of apprehensive dread, the accompanying score adds a nice, creepy vibe, and the woodsy locale, while kind of trite, is still creep. Alas, when the insanely rote “twist” ending comes, it all seems for nought.
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