It was Chauncey! (Thriller 2018)

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Thriller

3/10

On the home stretch of completing the A-Z of movies I haven't seen and this time Netflix had deleted the movie I had intended to watch. That led to a scramble and the first thing that popped up was Thriller. In no way was this linked to Michael Jackson, instead, we have a crime drama with a little bit of horror mixed in. The cast of full of faces that I haven't seen before so it'll be interesting how this turns out. This could well be a short review.

I'm not sure how many people will get the reference I am about to make but this storyline is the same that I saw on an episode of South Park years ago. This movie came out in 2018 and I'm not calling this a straight copy but the premise is exactly the same until the end. A group of youngsters play a prank on a fellow school pupil and as things take a turn, one of the little girls is killed. The group don't tell the police why it all happened, they just say that Chauncey who clearly has issues, murdered the little girl. After spending time in juvenile hall, Chauncey is back on the streets and the original gang start to get killed off.

 The gang is made up of the usual stereotypes, the jock, the popular girl, the joker that doesn't seem to get along with the rest and the calm girl who we'll centre around. This girl had the apprehension from the start and has been having nightmares for a long time until her nightmare begins to come true. The movie draws to a close with the hooded killer trying to take out the final group members only for it to be revealed that it wasn't Chauncey after all. I'm not going to let loose who the killer was as I've already said too much. I didn't see it coming and I thought it was a true story of revenge.

The movie stars Jessica Allain, Tequan Richmond, Chelsea Rendon to name a few but I use the term 'star' lightly. The movie was littered with faces that I don't recognise and I doubt I would recognise if I was to witness them on the screen in the future. The acting overall was poor and there wasn't one redeemable character throughout the movie. I find myself looking at my phone most of the time to check how long had gone and this is far from a long movie.

The movie had a dark tone which definitely helped and the fact that it opened up showing Blumhouse productions meant that it was either going to be good or bad. They never really have a happy medium. The predictability wasn't a great factor to draw in the audience. You knew when someone was going to die and most of the time you'd know how. The saving grace, to some extent, was the ended of the movie and the big reveal. It didn't really save the movie though. This would 100% be a movie that I wouldn't recommend. There are much better movies of the same genre which I haven't seen yet and I'm disappointed that I'm not going to get my time back from watching this one.