Elves

The movie wasn't scary matter of fact I was laughing everything just looked so fake and the actors/actresses were horrible don't get your hopes up and for a 2018 movie it seems like a 1980s maybe even 1970s movie because of the effects

Well, sure I didn't have much of any expectations for this movie when I sat down to watch the 2018 movie titled "Elves" from director Jamaal Burden. But still, I do believe that a movie should be given a fair chance. So I sat down to watch "Elves".

And it turned out that it was a massive waste of time. The movie is amateurish at best. And the entire movie just feels like a school project of some sort. I mean, there is very little contents to the storyline that would actually warrant a movie. And it feels like director Jamaal Burden just improvised his way through the script as he went along.

The entertainment value of the movie is very low; so low, in fact, that I didn't even manage to finish the movie. I just gave up about halfway through it. Why? Well, because there was next to nothing to keep me entertained from what I had suffered through in the first half, so there really was no need to continue the ordeal.

For a horror movie, then "Elves" was mundane, terribly mundane. And if you enjoy a proper horror movie, then your money, time and effort is best spent elsewhere.

I am rating "Elves" a two out of ten stars rating, solely because they did try on some level. But I am not returning to finish the rest of the movie, as there really is no cause for doing that. I can't really say that I had any interest in the lack of proper storyline or the mundane characters that milled about with their head under their arms.

So a week ago we watched the prequel, The Elf, and were mildly impressed. There were real attempts to be creative, and the doll in a spooky doll movie actually, get this, moved around on camera and stuff. (Take that, nearly every Anabelle knock off). The main weaknesses were the acting and the plot, the latter of which was just awful.

So imagine our utter disappointment when we pulled this up hoping for some improvements and discovered what an absolute waste of time it was. Random nonsense happens to an array of equally dull characters who's actors and actresses can barely muster the effort emote. Audio issue abound as some folks mics can seem to be actively trying to avoid being in the movie by cutting out at a whim or simple being inaudible over the soundtrack.

The cover makes you think that wacky elf doll be back with his homeys to mess some folks up but don't be fooled. Most of the "horror" comes from snapchat filters being applied poorly to some faces along with a random masked killer, some crazy lady, and an ugly burnt doll unrelated to the original. How are they connected? Will the characters of these separate threads collide? Who cares when the threadbare plot can't be arsed to try and make sense. This time people get possessed. Why? No one knows? What is with the naughty list game, we didn't need this to have an elf kill people in the first movie? Your guess is as good as mine.

Nearly the entire runtime of the movie was spent wishing it would end or my power would go out.

Gathered together for a special party, a group of friends forced to play a demented version of The Naughty List are soon subjected to a string of deaths based on the order of their placement in the game at the hands of a demented elf doll and must find a way to stop it from spreading,

This was an absolutely awful effort without much going for it. About the only positive featured here is the sense of the attack scenes where the possessed friend gets under the influence of the doll or the game and is sent on their own forced assassination command. This sole concept alone is the main factor to like as the central idea does provide some decently-handled sequences involving the characters coming across a scenario where they obey the supernatural voices in their head to follow the game or suffer the consequences. The idea of this has some charm and manages to come up unexpectedly enough for it to be quite chilling in concept but is too wasted to be of much positive virtue. There are plenty of issues to be had here. The concept of the game here makes no sense, as how the demonic temptation works, or what the doll actually means, as these issues are completely unrelated to what's going on here. The intent behind the game is completely missing with the group being supposedly friends so that being immediately thrust into it with no explanation about who they are, what the game is about, or why they should play it makes for a game with no stake or reason to care. Since the group is then immediately thrust into these accidents that are said to be the result of the demonic temptation of the doll being put to use for the game, but it has no connection for anything, the plotline is a general mess with nothing making sense or drawing the viewer in. On top of that, there's nothing else here physically to draw a viewer in as there are scores of issues here. The confusing story might have had some life to it if there were some kind of interest in what's happening to their friends but the whole thing has just such a disconnected air to it that it kills any momentum. The inclusion of the masked killer results in overlong, static stalking scenes with flimsy effects, a Snapchat filter that's supposed to represent a possession, and lame deaths featuring very little bloodshed. There are too many instances of the groups' resources being limited by the low-budget origins that come about way too often here that run throughout the whole film so that it doesn't have much in the way of killer doll action with these outside elements holding it back considerably.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

A deadly game involving elf dolls (not elves at all) this started out ok when it was hinting that a group of people do an ancient game in modern times and do as suggested.

This film gets more away and not pin point to the subject. The characters deaths are mostly nonsensical and involving the dolls which doesn't do much of anything as the film poster entells...

As you get further into the film it becomes more into folk lore and Christmas but doesn't explain enough and also late in the movie and even then not sufficient to be injected into the story.