 | MOVIE DETAILS • Name: Deep Hatred • Year: 2022 • Country: Brazil • Director: Daniela Carvalho, Ale McHaddo • Main cast: Sara Drust, Jeremy Sless, Evan Judson, Marcella Marques • Runtime: 74 minutes • Production company: 44 Filmes, Iron Chest Films, Tortuga Studios • TRAILER
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Although I love cinema and, above all genres, I adore horror movies, I can enjoy crappy b-movie flicks if they bring me anything, a small laugh, some epic line, a good kill, anything, there are other moments that I get to witness a real dull one and then, when I don’t feel like I have anything positive to mention, I have to write a review. And, sadly, this is the case I encounter myself after the watch of Deep Hatred (2022).
But, first, humor me with nonsense thought I’ve had in my head for years. I have a theory which I think it’s very easy to prove. The more the characters repeat the sentence “I’m sorry” the worse the movie is. “I’m sorry”, the easy way to put out mixed emotions, disappointing events, and to deal with any kind of conflict the protagonists are set upon. A desperate and inefficient attempt to make the audience feel empathy with one character; someone fucked up, maybe by mistake or maybe deliberately, and now the regrets have arrived. But, come on, does it actually help? I don’t this sentence helps in real life, it just kills the explanation or excuses this so sorry person might have, so even less in a movie when the spectator might not have the need to feel sympathy or empathy for the characters and happenings.
I’m sorry, I had to do it. And, yes, pun intended. But I felt the obligation to relax the atmosphere for the reader of this text since now the crude reality coming to be exposed. Deep Hatred (2022) is a collection of bad acting, lousy directing, poorly developed characters, and a bag full of cliches. And I really don’t like to put it out like that, but it is very hard for me to salvage a single aspect of what I’ve seen in the movie.
With the excuse of a mild witchcraft background story, the filmmakers build a movie where from the very first scenes one can feel it won’t bring anything worth to the table. The cinematography is just basic and never gets to exploit the possibilities of the landscape, that farm in the middle of nowhere. A witchcraft movie must have an intense environment component, the nature and the location must take a big important part for the magic to happen. Here it is just neglected in order to focus on a pointless story and in four main characters that might win the award of the most useless group of people of the year.
But if that wasn’t encouraging enough, towards the second half of the running time, when the attacks start to happen, and the plot starts to reveal itself, the script just gets dumber and dumber. Nothing makes sense, the whole thing is drifting. Dumb actions wrapped up in even dumber dialogs, a silly spirit taking revenge, a backstory of crime, envy, greed, and betrayal that is just confusingly scratched on the surface, right when the audience already lost any hope the little over one hour of their lives used in watching the film will never come back. Everything fails, nothing is to outstand, and the final confusing and lame climax serves as the icing on the cake in this festival of mediocrity.
I really feel sorry when a movie review is built on blunt negative aspects and almost nothing really to outstand in a positive way. I know the filmmaking process is not a path of roses and many people put a lot of time, dedication, effort, and money in order to go on with the production of his film, as with many others. But, as part of the audience, on the other side of the screen, watching a movie like Deep Hatred (2022) becomes a vastly pointless experience, at moments even painful. Still, if you are willing to take the risk because you want to dig into mysterious supernatural horror, you can find the film on demand.
RATE: 3/10
IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt9070824
