The Death of April

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.

Even though this movie is a low-budget found-footage style film, I really hoped there would be a redeemable bit to it. Sadly there was not. The acting is passable I suppose and the story is OK. It starts slow and ends almost as slowly as it began. No shocks or scares and not even an ounce of suspense in the whole movie. I believe there can still be life found in this genre and that has been evident in films such as "Afflicted" and "The Borderlands." Having a large budget does not equal a better horror film. A good story and gripping atmosphere can lift a possible mediocre movie into the area of one of the best found-footage horror films. It's a small group because most of them are garbage.

When I was first watching this movie, I thought that it was going to be fairly interesting. Average acting, it could have been better and a good plot. The thing that ruined it for me was that nobody believed her even after seeing everything that had been happening. What kind of parent does not go visit their daughter when she first moves away? That was another thing that ruined it for me. The brother just so happens to meet a girl that's into the paranormal? The scene where the sister and girlfriend were having a seance, she had an episode of breathing difficulty, vase breaks, that scene was over the top and not needed.

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.

TLDR It's bad

Writing this as a huge Found Footage fan.

I couldn't make it longer than halfway through before I turned it off and fell asleep. It was boring and incredibly cringy.

Lead actress was annoying, real annoying. I think she may suffer from down syndrome or something?

Ontop of that, nothing much happens, it's just her acting like a clown in front of a web camera like she probably does in rl, and it cuts back to her lame family talking about how great a kid she was.....it does this for literally 45 minutes. Occasionally a door would slowly open in the background and they even brought out the tired and predictable ouiji board we've seen in every. Single. Horror movie.

There's much better found footage out there, so if you're looking for a good one, skip this.