The Retreat

This movie was so uninteresting, boring and bland that I watched it sometime in May and I forgot to rate it :D (2021.07.24)

Uninteresting, not very ambitious, and actually quite useless. The Retreat is saved from being rubbish thanks to its quite decent camera work and relatively fine visuals. It’s nice that it that it doesn’t look like cheap crap from a clearance bin, but horror fans won't find anything interesting. The film focuses on an unlikeable lesbian couple who go on a relaxing getaway to have a nice weekend, only to encounter a group of militant assholes who have the desire to murder them. The central duo is unlikeable and I didn't actually care about their fate. The villains are not offensive, but there’s nothing extraordinary, the gore is mostly off-camera although they showed at least two scenes at the end when there was nothing else. There can't be any talk of tension or atmosphere, it's not entertaining either, and nothing really attractive or interesting happens there most of the time. Everything was done somewhere else and several times better, but thanks to its 80-minute runtime, it can be survived with one viewing. 4/10. (2021.05.22)