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Why did the guy started murdering people in that town some time ago? Why stopped? Why started again? Why now? And, finally, why, after all the spree kills, he started this dumb hide-and-seek game with the protagonist (portrayed by a so-so Allison McAtee) and wasted more than a day exclusively on her? Too many unanswered questions, too many wasted cameos (I'm really disappointed in Emma Bell, she can do much better), too wague script, too amateur execution. The most watchable part is a tent double-kill featuring a young couple that exists, like the most of the characters, only to die. "Why?" will not satisfy neither genre fans nor any other person looking for something not totally insufferable to watch.

What is Lance Henriksen doing these days taking bit parts in ordure like this?

Every movie he seems to star in is of the utterly worst quality and it is not as if he is not still a great actor but the other reviewers are entirely correct, I should have paid attention.

Acting is not that bad but it is a realllllllyyyyyy boring stalk and slash with no story whatsoever or even a single interesting kill!

Very poor 2 hatchets on my horror scale!

Comes off as something of a mindless slasher because it is both; mindless and a slasher film.

Plot is a straight line point a to point b...never deviating from its " scarred up guy in green jacket" killing for some odd reason. Doesn't rely on jump scares as much as it suffers from terribly mundane story with Jason/Michael-esque kills. Zero story. Terrible acting. Looks like it was made as a film school project funded by a failed Kickstarter. Hard pass.

It's a bad movie.

Even if we consider that it is an indie, low budget movie, that is not enough to justify the bad quality of the story or the terrible (terrible, terrible) acting. I can forgive the bad effects, but that's it.

Also, it's not scary at all. It's predictable, boring... not even in a funny way.

The only good comments must be from someone related to the actors or director or such.

It's good that it's short... so you didn't waste a lot of time in it.

So bad its a joke i would give this a miss.

Bad acting all the way.

Yet another dumb copycat movie...the beginning was a copycat to the remake of 'Friday the 13th'...REALLY? But not only that but other horror movies too like 'Halloween' and 'when a stranger calls' and I must say the blood in this film looked so fake. And yet a third or fourth film in 2 years Natasha Henstridge was in it for little moments...and her being in these low budget films is destroying her career including her acting skills because if she was still in high budget movies like she was years ago her acting skills would had stayed better in a straight line...and she started off the same way as 'Charlize Theron' did all those years ago but Hollywood took Natasha down the wrong road over in time which was silly because she was great back in the 90s to early 2000s. But yea this film sucked so bad.

Before I watch any flick (or movie, using the latter term for what is worth watching) I check IMDB scores, looking carefully at the lowest scores as they are usually the most honest. Here we have a lot of 10's and high praises associated with those, all given in one month...these are clearly an the result of a pity party attempting to pump up the score for this atrocity. Go with the lowest scores; those are the honest ones. If it weren't for the fake 10's I might have given this a generous "3" but the pathetic attempt to deceive the audience made me drop the score to a "1".

Disclaimer: I watch anything with Lance Henriksen, knowing most movies he is in will be lousy. Favorite show ever: Millennium. This was so bad, that I didn't stay around to watch him. When the main (idiot) character starts saying "who's there", you know the script is trash. What do they expect? "It's me the serial killer". Any horror movie, regardless of lousy, I give the benefit of the doubt IF IT DOES not have anyone that stupid.

Edge of your seat horror. Exactly what it was intended to do.

While murder scenes in this film are very violent, it's all professionally done. If you are a horror fan, you should be pleased with the solid acting and believable plot. I was seriously scared. Terrified me as much as the Halloween movies.

Why was it written? Why was it released? Why was the killer killing? Why was the main actress so bad at acting? I mean... seriously. The woman overacts every scene. And the killer... there is no backstory whatsoever regarding him. We don't know who he is, why he's killing... nothing. Everybody in that town seems to know all about either him or at least his murders, but nobody bothers to warn her or even finish any sentence or thought concerning the goings on in town. Don't bother wasting your time. I only gave it two stars instead of one because as bad as this was, believe it or not, I have seen worse.

I love indie horror movies and i have seen alot of them over the years.

I always expect less than subpar audio and video, so when that is done well that its always a huge plus. This movie however has the distinction to have the most annoying and irritating score and sound design i have heard in a movie. All supense is killed with dreadful bass tone and overbearing music.

Pushing the volume to 11 to try to fix the obvious flaws of the movie(script, acting, direction) just made everything even more awful. With less is more approach the movie might have been more entertaining but unfortunately that did not happen.

I have not seen other movies by this director, but if he has the same sound team i will avoid them.

For a film with at least some of the cast you might actually of heard of this is a very forgettable flick writing this review 10 minutes after watching it and can't remember a single characters name! Nowhere near a 10 rating but watchable on a free stream!

I guess I ought to be thankful. This movie taught me how to take a competently shot, potentially decent movie and give it a swirlie in the backed up locker room toilet. I've watched a lot of disappointing movies in my time, but the amount of failed potential here actually pissed me off enough to write a review.

1) Show the killer too early and too often.

2) Spend enough money to hire recognized actors, but not enough to actually use their talents.

2) Destroy all hope of enjoyment with a cliche', tensionless climax that felt like a film student said "good enough" before heading to Lauderdale for Spring Break.

Cool flick. Many good things about this movie, some of which include acting and cinematography. Good casting, good directing. I've checked out other Timbrook films...seems he's been in the game a while and is quite solid. It's really hard to make a quality horror flick...I've seen some pretty terrible ones. But Why? Checks off most of my boxes. Worth a watch.

I don't think people, (couch critics), realize how hard it is to make a small budget movie look good, sound good and keep your attention throughout. WHY does just that. It is a well crafted film. Well directed and well acted. Sure there might be things that seem familiar,...who cares!! It's scary!!!

I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. Edge of your seat suspense and nail biting horror in the form of an indie movie.

A fast paced & suspenseful indie horror film - what more could you ask for? Makes you rethink taking that relaxing remote vacation in the mountains.

If you don't like "Friday, the 13th" don't watch "Why?", because it's the same genre. It's about a mysterious guy, killing people in a village, for no reason at all.

In the moment I'm doing this review, the average score is 3.6/10, and I don't believe it, because there are several movies worse than "Why", with better scores.

The script is very good. I really liked the way the story was told. But why the man is killing people isn't clear, and many people complain about it.

The plot is good too, and the cast had an excellent performance in my opinion.

Despite I like this genre of movie, I had low expectations about "Why?".

I liked it, and I recommend you to watch it.