Friday, 27 August 2021

VOD: Gremlin's Curse (aka Gremlin) (dir: Ryan Bellgardt, 2017)

"It is a curse or something.  I don't understand it."

This cheap but bloody horror throwaway is a bizarre cross between Gremlins and It Follows, in which a murderous creature contained within a box can only be stopped by the owner passing it on to someone else they love.  Undermined by a slow pace, flat dialogue and a string of unconvincing performances that fail to sell the situation effectively, the creature is reasonably effective for low-end CGI and the film delivers quite well on the kills and a couple of jump scares but little else.
 

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