The Death of April

When I sat down to watch the 2022 movie "The Death of April", from writer and director Ruben Rodriguez, I believed I was in for a horror movie. Had I known that it was nothing more than a documentary intermixed with poor quality videos of a woman filming her own life by webcam, I would have given this movie a wide berth.

Writer and director Ruben Rodriguez put together an absolute stinker of a script and storyline, and not even 30 minutes into the ordeal I had lost all interest in the storyline. I have to say that watching people sit around doing fake interviews for a movie and watching crappy quality webcam video just doesn't count as being a proper movie for me, nor does it count as being entertaining.

I wasn't familiar with a single actress or actor on the cast list, but I can't claim to be impressed with what I was witnessed on the screen, because the actresses and actors had a snowballs chance in Hell to deliver anything worthwhile, given the inadequate script and storyline that they had to work with. Not to mention the God awful character gallery.

Visually, then you're not in for anything grand. Well, not unless you consider low quality and grainy webcam footage as being enjoyable.

Do yourself a favor and don't waste 85 minutes of your life on watching this dumpster fire of a movie.

My rating of writer and director Ruben Rodriguez's 2022 laughable attempt at a horror movie lands on a one out of ten stars.

If you love supposed horror movies in which nothing happens in 99% of the movie and nothing is scary, then boy, is this your lucky day! My goodness. Alright, the one positive is that the acting was good. The characters were believable for the most part.

The movie is going for the "was it paranormal or psychological?" trope, which is fine, and which was done well in "The Exorcism of Emily Rose". It was definitely not done well in this film.

The acting was good, but the writing was not great. It was so, so boring that I found myself looking at my phone in many parts. I paid to watch it, so I gave it a chance, but man, it was boring.

Filmmakers, especially horror ones, need to understand that building atmosphere, character development, and all that stuff is great and needed, but unless scary things actually happen, then you are going to lose the audience.

Sorry to be negative. It is not the worst film ever, but it is incredibly boring.

This is basically if Paranormal Activity, a movie that already had zero budget, had it's budget completely slashed and made about 15 years too late.

Megan is a little interesting, but aside from that the movie is just really dull. Just imagine Paranormal Activity but even less happens. The twist is this is made to look like a documentary, but this has already been done to death and done better. If this were made 10-15 years ago I might say watch it, but the paranormal activity movies have been done to death and the found footage documentaries have been done to death now.

There's just not really much of a reason to watch this movie.

I'm not going to lie I went in not expecting much and that's exactly what I got. Not complete disappointment, there was some creepy scenes but mostly it was just watching some preppy rich girl waste everything her daddy gave her for drinking and boys. The whole ghost thing was layered so thinly on top it just didn't feel like the two were a coherent story. The ending was only more frustrating as it was so abruptly executed and that was it. If you want something tame then here you go. But honestly it was a pretty plain forgettable flick I wouldn't bother watching twice. Sucks cause the movie poster looked epic. Btw....next time don't get your actor for a mom character from a porno flick....

People don't want to help the girls is the part that bothered me the most and everyone wanted to ignore everything and that isn't anything that people in your life do.

As far as the genera that this is set in, it could have been put in two or three different categories. The more I watched this the more I wanted to stop only for fact that people would not try to help look into the issues and just wanted to brush her off. That is not a good story or a good feeling and it can causes issues. That could be what the writer wanted to show but it could have been better if she had one person that wanted to help her research it.

After watching all of it, you thoughts can go a couple ways in what the story is behind it all, ghost, mental breakdown, or both.

I would like to post my thoughts but don't want to spoil the movie for anyone.

But I say watch it make you own decision and tell us about it in your perspective.