Working with the hardly-revolutionary idea that mobile phones, social media and videogames can be addictive and bad for the youth of today, Grimcutty is a very basic bargain-basement thriller with dull dialogue, slow pacing and flat presentation. As the Grimcutty meme drives teens to self-harm and somehow finds physical form (via an unconvincing large-scale animatronic puppet), and paranoid parents try to take away their children's tech and cut off their internet access, the theme is terribly laboured, acting certainly won't trouble the Oscars voters, and with most of the film limited to an ordinary-looking family home, there is little here to hold interest. There is an unexpected attempt at sincerity in the final moments, but it is unclear whether this is a genuine moment of reflection on real-life teenage problems or an attempt to give the film some sort of credibility and validity.
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