Death Link

I decided to go on Amazon Prime and pick a random movie to watch. Wasn't sure what I was wanting to watch. I saw Death Link and it sounded like it could be cool. I mean take modern day influencers and the internet and it should be good. Right?

Death Link is about a group of "teen" influencers in a small town who try to one up each other, start getting ramped up videos. Are the deadly videos real or fake?

Positive

• Some of the cast are kind of hot/cute.

• There are kills.

Negatives

• The acting wasn't great. And the cast are supposedly teenagers but some of them look older.

• The characters are just way too annoying.

• The plot was all over the place.

Oh boy, Death Link was a disappointment. Now, I'm a fan of B-Grade movies but I was bored and found myself playing on my phone during this movie. I always try to find something positive about every movie I watch. This movie was kind of hard to find a positive. Maybe watch if you are up doing something else while it's on. Otherwise just skip it. Not worth your time.

Quick Bite: 1.6/5.

So bad it's hard to explain. Plot we've seen a thousand times. Terrible acting. Adam Garcia is plain awful. I guessed the end twist after 5 minutes. 90 minutes of my life I will never get back.

Other user reviews would lead you to believe that this is absolutely worthless. It isn't. It IS very low budget. The acting is hit or miss. It is highly derivative. It's also fairly entertaining. The slasher subgenre has never been rife with originality from the eighties on. How can you be original with a central idea that has been done a million times? The trick is to make it entertaining and this one manages that plus some. It also falls into a few traps along the way, like offering a cast of characters that is almost universally unlikeable. And lets be honest, the social influencer thing is more played out than a bunch of investigators in a haunted location. Don't expect greatness or innovation, but it passes the time fairly well.

Total waste. Terrible plot with worse acting. Plot was all over the place. I did think "instatok" was clever. Don't waste the time tho. I would say zero stars except Matt Rife was in it but he should stick to comedy. His acting wasn't any better than the others. I love horror movies and the hidden gems are even better. I would compare this to a dirt clod! It made my head hurt. Seeking out hidden gems can be a painful experience. This was definitely painful. To watch and to follow. My head still hurts and I watched it well over 24 hours ago. My teen daughter wasn't a fan either. I don't have any other words.

Death Link (2021) is a revenge slasher flick like so many before it. Kid gets bullied, ends up in the asylum from which he escapes and people back home start being brutally murdered. Sound familiar? Yeah. But despite its utter lack of originality (with the possible exception of the twist) Death Link is very watchable. The acting is passable, same with the directing. Cinematography was fine. All in all not horrible. When I watched it it was rated 2.6 and last I looked it was 3.3 so somebody else must've liked it.