Ruin Me

The description makes it sound like an escape room in the forest, but gone rogue. People going on a slasher camp out, but it turns real, and the bodies start piling up. Could be fun. Except that the dull direction and paint by numbers script telegraphs way too much. You know there’s a plot twist, and if you’re a veteran of horror movies, you already know what it is as you’re reading this. But ii gets worse, because they layer on a second twist that’s even more insulting than the first, because it feels mean-spirited and unearned. Add into it how the slasher camp gone awry motif disappears halfway in and becomes Saw on the beach, and then goes BACK to the original premise, and you’ve got a recipe for a movie that thinks it’s far more clever than it is. This movie is that jackass we all know that thinks they’re right about everything and almost never is. A capable performance by the lead actress can’t save this dismal recitation of worn-out horror cliches and a script with all the depth of an episode of Antiques Roadshow.