Average Netflix Rating: 2.5 Stars
Hold Your Breath or its official name - #Holdyourbreath is the newest in a line of horror movies about a murderous spirit bouncing from body to body. Sometimes the results are great (FALLEN) sometimes they aren't (MY SOUL TO TAKE) Unfortunately for me, this falls into the bad category. The really really bad category.
After a serial killer is given the electric chair - his enraged spirit is trapped in limbo, just waiting for the chance to take over the body of a living person... luckily a group of high school friends are just about to start a camping weekend right by said graveyard! Lucky for everyone in the car, one of the travelers knows how to avoid being possessed by an evil spirit. Whenever you drive past a cemetery, all you need to do is hold your breath or the spirit can take over your body. As the group gets closer and closer to the cemetery the girl begs and pleads her friends to please #holdyourbreath... obviously for fairly stupid reasons someone in the car does not successfully hold their breath for the required amount of time and therefore becomes possessed by the spirit of a serial killer. After a random adventure in a mental institution the group continues to the camp site and the rest of the film is just the group being split up for stupid reasons and being killed off one by on as the spirit passes from person to person. Until a laughable final "battle" between good and evil that still doesn't resolve the main plot... you need to wait an additional 5 mins for the "surprise twist ending"
Everything about this movie is bad... There is nothing good to say about this movie except it looks like your standard horror movie - not the cheap direct to video crap that it is. The biggest mistake the movie makes is it makes it 100% clear where and within whom the spirit is possessing. There is no mystery as to who will be next to be killed, when you know who is possessed and the group begins to pair off, you know who is going to get whacked next... While it would not fix the many problems of the movie, it would at least be slightly more suspenseful if you had no idea who the killer was and which pair was doomed.
Let me say it again... everything about this movie is just bad, the acting was bad, the story was bad, the effects were bad, the plot was bad - and most of all tons of things just don't make sense...Why do you have to hold your breath when you drive past a cemetery BUT if you are just walking by the cemetery you are ok? Do they explain it in the movie? No - but they do acknowledge it Thank you screen writer for acknowledging the giant hole in your story but that does not solve your problem.
The movie is littered with silly stories and plot points that are meaningless. After a near car accident (horror cliche) a couple decides to go off to have sex (horror cliche) The rest of the group goes off to follow them, leaving 1 person behind (horror cliche) The group stumbles upon an abandoned hospital (horror cliche) and the group seperates to explore (horror cliche) But the worst off all - there is no reason for this! The ghost isnt in the hospital, theres no files or photos to stumble across... it is just an excuse to add 20 mins to the movies run time...
Lastly - whats with the hashtag? It has nothing to do with the plot or the movie, were the film makers really that delusional that they thought they were going to take over the twitterverse with this movie?
Avoid a all costs...
Rating: 1/5
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