Don't Watch This

The title of this Netflix mini-series, Don't Watch This, is at high risk of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy if one merely looks at how sloppily the horror shorts in this collection have been assembled, without a single theme to bind them. This series is undoubtedly off to a bad start with Season 1, but could still fulfill a larger purpose of becoming a solid platform for short horror films from aspiring filmmakers around the world. Within Season 1, barring Episode 2 and 3, the others have at least a semblance of a plot and are watchable. Watchable, yes... but no one's saying they are worth-watching, because there's nothing here that you haven't seen before.

So who in this film has naked pictures of the CEO of Netflix?

I went into this one with zero expectations and somehow I still managed to get disappointed.

The "stories" of each episode are so poorly scrambled together I can't believe anyone thought they were a good idea... The third one was the only one that made me even slightly uncomfortable and that's just because they just threw in every single phobia imaginable without any kind of coherent plot.

Only one of the five movies in the series has a story at all, and even if it is as weak as anything you could imagine. Take the title at it's face value. Don't. Watch. This.

So ...my qualified guess is that they kidnapped a bunch of car mechanics, put a gun to their heads and forced them to write a horror story in 10 minutes and then direct the episodes and act in them. That's the only reasonable explanation why this show is so god damn awful.