booking_along 's review for:

Mary, Will I Die? by Shawn Sarles
2.0
dark slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

oh wow.
can you say teenage slasher movie cliché rip of?!

plus a horrendous german translation because apparently kn this time and age it’s horrible hard to find anybody speaking a different language well enough to translate one single phrase right. 
i mean it’s hard. 
“the cursed woman” into “die verflucht frau” instead of 
“Die verfluchtE Frau” might seem meaningless but guess what? it makes a different like saying cruse instead of cursed. or saying bad instead of cursed. 
the difference is slight but it’s there. and its annoying. 


but let’s go back to the cliches.
we have the  popular one that only cares about herself and her wins.
we have the tall lesbian that’s sporty. 
we have the film buff that dresses like a movie character on everyday life.
and the odd ball guy that somehow fits between them all. 

also letting those kids do the whole bloody mary thing at 9? mhm

and than set it 5 years later? 
mhm.

can i just mention that i found it a bit creepy to think about 14 year olds doing what they were doing and reading what was being said to them. 

if you do a time jump anyways why not start them at 12 or 14  and jump to 16 or 18? 
then it wouldn’t be as creepy to read about some unknown person written a 14 year old messages how beautiful she is.

because that’s the creepiest thing of the entire story!


the plot wasn’t anything special -if you ever even heard a mention of the bloody mary thing you know how this will go for the most part. 
the writing wasn’t great and overall it reminded me very much of a cheaply made production of a 1990 slasher that tried too hard to be too many popular aha lager movies from that time at once. 

clearly this wasn’t for me. 

and i had too many issues to every try and say they i see a lot people enjoy this. 
 
i am sure their is an audience for this  that will enjoy this. 

but for me it’s just too little, too bland, too badly copycat.