Number Rolled: 28
Movie Name/Year: The
Chosen (2015)
Tagline: The first
kill is the hardest.
Genre: Horror,
Thriller
Length: 88
minutes
Rating: NR
Production Companies:
Terror Films
Producer: Max
Benator, Joe Dain, Miles Fineburg, Marc Hustvedt, Jim Klock, Peter Schafer
Director: Ben
Jehoshua
Writer: Barry
Jay, Ben Jehoshua, Andrew J. Scheppmann
Actors: Kian
Lawley, Elizabeth Keener, Angelica Chitwood, Chris Gann, Dayna Devon, Wiley B.
Oscar, Mykayla Sohn, Casey James Knight, Emily Killian, Barbara Goodson,
Melissa Navia, Johnny Alexander, Stefanie Estes, Lexi Flores, Brent Alan Henry,
Harv Popick, Penelope Richards, Hannah Sohn
Stunt Doubles: Jordyn
Wright
Languages
Speech Available:
English
Subtitles Available:
English, Chinese, French, German, Spanish
Blurb from Netflix:
To save a young girl from a child-stealing demon, her mother and 19-year-old
uncle must select six other blood relatives for a deadly sacrifice.
Selina’s Point of View:
From almost the very start of this film I absolutely hated
all the characters. Every single one of them was obnoxious and I could not
relate to a single one of them. It is very difficult to care about people dying
if you don’t care about the people in general.
Most of the actors were fine. It wasn’t about bad acting at
all… they just had nothing to work with.
The entire film was trope after trope after bullshit trope.
The creators didn’t stray from it at all.
I can often enjoy a recipe film… but this was beyond that. The Chosen was one of the least creative
movies I’ve ever seen or even considered. Even the reactions were boring and
unrealistic. There were a couple of lines that made it seem like they were
trying to create a campy cult film, but they failed miserably.
I’m just glad it’s not a film I’ll have to watch in the
future.
Cat’s Point of View:
I find myself with another movie that has me a little
conflicted on my rating.
On the one hand, I don’t think I’ve seen a movie with this
particular premise before. Points for creativity there, in my book. I think
there was some potential there for something really cool.
I remember that the trailer gave me the impression of
something really sinister and creepy. While there was horror in this movie, it
wasn’t in the vein that I was expecting. That isn’t always a bad thing; but in
this case it’s not necessarily a good thing either.
There wasn’t anything that I found really scary about this
movie. It poked at some underlying feels for me in the case of the grandfather,
played by Harv Popick (Short Cut to
Hollywood, The Tear, The Final Song); but other than his situation
triggering memories of my own grandfathers’ declines, there wasn’t anything
that really moved me.
That’s a problem. I should have felt something.
I think there was a missed opportunity here. It’s hard to
know where things went sideways. Was it the writing, the overall vision, or did
they just lack the funds to do the concept justice?
Whatever the reason was, I won’t be watching it again. Back
in the days of video rental stores, I’d say go ahead and pick it up if the
shelves were picked clean of what you really wanted. In this day and age, with
Netflix and so many other options at your disposal, there’re too many good
options to waste time on something that ultimately failed to hit the mark.
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score – None
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score – 31%
Netflix’s Prediction for Selina – 3/5
Selina’s Trust-the-Dice Score – 1/5
Netflix’s Prediction for Cat – 2/5
Cat’s Trust-the-Dice Score
– 2/5
The Random Rating:
PG-13.
Movie Trailer:
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