Canceled

I managed to miss Joakim Lundells last movie while it aired, and after seeing Cancelled, I'm glad I did.

This abomination of a "movie" lacks in pretty much every aspect it could. The plot is uninspired and dull, which makes the ending very easy to foresee. The acting is half-assed, forced and manages to feel childish at times. We won't see these actors go anywhere big anytime soon, hopefully never. But is it even their fault? The script was doomed from the beginning.

It's really just a rehash of common horror characteristics and tropes, this movie adds nothing to a genre already clad in poor attempts at making the viewer nostalgic to better films.

The ending doesn't make sense either, I'm not going to mention any spoilers, but it feels like the writers had a case of writers block, and it shows.

Is it scary though? A poorly written horror flick can be saved by good atmosphere and well made jumpscares. Cancelled has neither. It's campy as all hell, without trying to be. The setting, an old abandoned mansion in the middle of nowhere looks like a studio. Everything looks "broken down and creepy" in a planned way, old children's toys can never cover up that a movie just isn't scary. Regarding the jumpscares, they're bad, and very easy to call out well before they happen.

I could sit here for an hour mentioning logical fallacies in the film, but that does not really serve a purpose. It's a cheap attempt and a scary film, and it fails miserably.

Are there any positives? Eh, the sound design is fine, and most of the camera work is well done. But overall, this film is lacking.

Better luck next time Joakim.

I don't understand why this movie is being given such a low rating.

The special effects are good. The story is not bad.

The actors didn't do a bad job.

The plot twist is interesting.

As for the overall pacing, it's a very moderate horror: there are no over-the-top scenes.

The ending is good, the ending is in line with what the whole story proposes.

Perhaps the biggest flaw I find in it is having a slow and not at all promising start.

But as the story progresses, it gets better.

Why does it have such a low score? I don't understand.

I'm not saying it's a perfect movie: but of the ones I've seen between 2023 and 2024, I don't consider it a bad movie at all.

I'm going to try to make up for all those low scores by giving it my all. Watch this movie and you'll see that it's not that bad.

This movie can not even compare to the first movie Joakim Lundell did in 2022. This movie is well done, has multipel jumpscars, and it is really scary. This is a movie that i wont forget. Some of the scenes really got under my skin.

I dont understand the person who left det previous review, be cause i that the opposite, that the movie Feed was a bit predictable at times, and not det best Joakim Lundell has done, but that was also his first movie. And now in this new movie canceled, it shows how much he has grown as a producer. I can only speculate how the next movie will be, but one thing is forsure that im going to se it.

Don't understand why this movie has been given such bad reviews from some viewers . I think it's absolutely worth seeing, good storyline and and a creepy feeling mixed with some proper jump scare scenes 👍🏻 Don't want to give any part of the story away but in summary the start is ok but it build up and evolves. The movies would have benefited from better actors, some performance is rather week and we all know that this can destroy the tension and the suspense as it toss you out of the "scary movie feeling" which then take a couple of scenes to get back. In the end, i at least, got wrapt up in the story and liked it.

I went to see this horrendous flick only to hold my friends hand and went with little to zero expectations. My gut feeling was absolutely right, I wanted to leave right out the door as many times as the movie has minutes of dreadful, uneventful and boring scenes.

The story is full of loopholes, the character development is non existent meaning you have no emotional interest or care for anyone. As someone before me has mentioned the music and camera work is OK but this quality of work is really the bare minimum for a movie to even go up in the cinemas like this.

I want my 97 minutes of my life back. - 1/10.