HATEOTS is a hateable film indeed. It's the trashiest, nastiest garbage that's been done before thousands of times in similar low-rent slime, and it's really no better other than the fact that somewhere, somehow, someone conned Jennifer Lawrence and Elizabeth Shue into starring in it.
The story, for what little it's not worth, has them acting as mother and daughter, moving into a new house in "generic rural land" where a spooky house just beyond the property line freaks them out with its property price-dropping and urban legend backstory. J-Law soon befriends the gentle, misunderstood boy living there and an excruciating sequence of cliches and boredom soon plays out for the rest of the miserable running time.
Even if the story wasn't bottom-feeding drivel the dialogue is frequently pathetic, the direction and camerawork is so hopelessly misjudged, with awful stinger effects every five minutes, and very poor editing. I really hope that the heyday of PG-13 horror/thriller crap is over as nothing that era has produced is notable and HATEOTS is an example of this guff at its worst.
The story, for what little it's not worth, has them acting as mother and daughter, moving into a new house in "generic rural land" where a spooky house just beyond the property line freaks them out with its property price-dropping and urban legend backstory. J-Law soon befriends the gentle, misunderstood boy living there and an excruciating sequence of cliches and boredom soon plays out for the rest of the miserable running time.
Even if the story wasn't bottom-feeding drivel the dialogue is frequently pathetic, the direction and camerawork is so hopelessly misjudged, with awful stinger effects every five minutes, and very poor editing. I really hope that the heyday of PG-13 horror/thriller crap is over as nothing that era has produced is notable and HATEOTS is an example of this guff at its worst.