Wake Up

An entertaing and gory low-budget film with large doses of scares, gory scenes and terrifying set pieces . Ordinary slasher flick from Canada including coproduction by France/Spain, containing a lot of grisly killings and unknown cast at a mall. In an attempt to draw attention to the environmental crisis, young activists (Benny O. Arthur, Jacqueline Moré, Tom Gould, Alessia Yoko Fontana, Kyle Scudder, Charlotte Stoibe) decide to invade and vandalize a furniture store called . Then things go wrong, the protest quickly turns into a massacre when they find themselves trapped with a hunting-obsessed night guard. A merciless , brutal killer goes bersek, terrorizing the group of friends. . Fun getting in !. Hell getting out !. Terror never felt so real !. The night of dreams quickly turns into a true nightmare !.

A bone-chilling and gory horror flick with a devasting and threatening series killer executing astonishing crimes. The Canadian film-making trio RKSS behind the cult classic Turbo Kid direct this crazy, ultraviolent survival slasher, presented at the 2023 Sitges Film Festival. It stars a group of environmental friends, environmental activists who raid House Idea, a furniture shopping centre, at night to protest the deforestation of the rainforest. What they don't expect, however, is to run into a psychopathic and bloodthirsty security guard who loves primitive art and is eager to play cat and mouse. An out-of-control villain, hunters being hunted, and lots of blood and gore are the keys to this film, which produces more tension than trying to put a wardrobe together piece by piece.

The premise of the film is as macabre as it is simple: a foolish group of young people enter a shopping mall resulting in terrible consequences. The Thrill is the relentless hunt carried put by a heinous and sinister hunter/murderer against some unfortunate trespassers. The chilling plot is simple and plain, an ordinary screenplay of hundreds of Slashers , a serial murderer turns a mall into his own personal playground, and the essential twisted issue results to be that the killer on the loose undertakes a criminal spree while the victims flee desperately. A typical criminal spree in which some teenagers begin a night in which fun turns into a nightmare when they realize that they are relentlessly pursued .Wake Up(2023) follows the style of the recent Karusell (2023) by Simon Sandquist , ¨Hell Fest¨ (2018) by Gregory Plotkin and ¨Haunt¨ (2019) by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods ,also dealing with a psycho-killer going bersek at in a public and closed establishment, in these cases amusement parks. Al the same time, all of them bear remarkable resemblance to the classic ¨Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse (1981)¨ about four teenagers spending a night at a carnival funhose, who become next on the list of victims.

It contains dark and sinister cinematography, in fact the camera often assumes a pointedly aggressive stance, as well as screeching and eerie musical score by Arnau Bataller . This short-budget film was made by directors François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell (RKSS) . They direct professionally but nothing special this disturbing survival story full of horrror, chiller and chases inside a mall. They're working interchangeably for television or cinema. Their debut feature was ¨Turbo Kid¨ it is a post-apocalyptic film made in 2015, an anti-prophetic story with a lot of gore, which adds an eighties science fiction aesthetic and shows a past that has not come to fruition. Rating: average 5/10. The flick will appeal to horror fans, although we had already seen the plot and the situations portrayed before and better filmed .

"Wake Up" is the sort of film that has you rooting for the masked villain before the opening titles are done. And why not? It's not every day you see a group of overly earnest eco-warriors break into an IKEA to "save the planet," only to discover they've wandered into a nightmare.

The plot is sheer brilliance. A band of young activists decide that vandalising flat-pack furniture will save the world, only to find themselves at the mercy of a hunting-obsessed night guard who's far more interested in adding to his personal collection than protecting corporate property. Honestly, by the time the first bookcase was vandalized, I was on the guard's side.

As a fan of the genre, I found "Wake Up" a refreshing departure from the usual tired tropes. The film keeps you engaged from start to finish, with plenty of moments that had me both cringing and chuckling. The social satire? Sharp enough to slice through a coffee table. The filmmakers have managed to mock everything from corporate greed to eco-activism, all while keeping things bloody entertaining.

In the end, "Wake Up" kept me wide awake and wanting more. If you're after a slasher with a bit of bite-and a lot of wit-this one's well worth a watch.

If you just went to the Ikea store and you feel you still didn't get enough of it you can give this movie a go as it looks like it's been shot there. I guess they had to remove all Björks and Knutts to replace them by something similar, but it's clearly inspired by the Ikea franchise. Nothing wrong with that if it was a good movie, which it isn't by the way, unless you don't mind a guy getting his head bashed in, losing liters of blood and apparently not being dead as he pops up a bit later in the story without a single drop of blood spatter. Or another kid getting speared by a kitchen knife in the spine but still able to walk around like nothing happened. It's just too ridiculous for me. A bit of slashing, I can live with that, even enjoy it, but dead is dead to me, so when they are still functioning normally after being slashed I'm losing interest.

... well not to party, but to demolish stuff ... for the greater good (?) ... in any case: no pun intended as always. You may be surprised to see the makers of this ... well quite serious movie ... especially considering the stuff they did before ... be it Turbo Kid or We are Zombies ... both had violence in them, no doubt about that ... but they were also made with a lot of humor ... more light so to speak! This affair right here, has quite the different tone.

The main villain is or rather should not be left unsupervised in society ... but not just that ... he also has a job that has him to deal with customers ... well at first. His boss moves him or his shift to night, when there is no one who will complain about him ... or is there? Well wouldn't be a movie if it were too easy, right? Rhetorical question of course.

So if you don't mind the violence and the tone (or maybe you even cherish that those kids who always know it better will get theirs ... I do not agree with that sentiment, just saying) ... the movie will serve you well ... and be entertaining enough ... including one scene at the start of the end credits ... not for the faint hearted indeed.

I was having a horror film weekend this weekend and started off with this and I must admit I was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting bad acting and no good story or deaths but I can say I was wrong. Most if the character's were good especially the main security guard, the only ones acting I thought was bad was the jock in it lol. Anyway the story made sense and the deaths were eventful. I like jumpy horrors and edge of your seat ones and i felt at times this film had both and right till just before the end. There was also twist so this film wasn't boring and did keep me entertained the whole way through. It's defo worth a watch.