Buzz House: The Movie
2024 [ROMANIAN]
Comedy / Horror
3.2/10
1.3K
Plot summary
The next season of Buzz House is the most ambitious yet. Selly has prepared many surprises for the participants: secret competitors, an isolated villa in the forest that can only be reached by boat and a costumed employee, set to scare them, to have a thrilling exit. Everything is planned in detail. What's not in the plan, though, is for a real psychopath to show up, kill the "scary" employee, take his costume and terrorize our competitors for real. Do rivalries still matter when you're being run over with an axe? Do friendships still matter when you have to risk your life for them? Who will manage to escape and how?
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Movie Reviews
Buzz House was bad
A combination of all that is wrong with Romanian media
This movie is just all over the place and even tho it barely reaches the 90 minute mark it is so drawn out and filled with a bunch of nothing.
My first problem is that it requires you to know the characters in real life (random Romanian vloggers) in order to even care about them and this is something that really bugged me. Since this is a horror movie that uses deaths as the main thing driving the story I would have thought of 3 things that are essential for an on-screen death to be interesting:
- emotional investment in the character
- an interesting/gruesome death that stands out through the way it happened or how it was executed
- the reaction of the other characters to the death itself, making it feel like it mattered
Given this 3 things, I will lay down how this movie simply failed at being even remotely interesting:
Starting with the "emotional investment in the character" - the characters are awful, they are typical people that you would find on the streets of Romania - obnoxious, money driven, loud, crass, egocentric. They are examples of the tropes that this country is so full of and the movie fails at even showing if those people act like a**holes for comedic purposes or if they are genuine a**holes acting like themselves. Since they are so unlikeable, I couldn't care less if they died. And to touch a bit more on the character side of the movie, it is clear that they wanted to show off, especially Selly (the main character, I guess) who wanted to really tell us that he is wealthy IRL and the boss and is organizing the Beach, please! Festival this summer. He really wanted to suck every penny from this movie despite being already an established and well off public person. The "hunger" phenomena really never stops with some people.
Secondly, the deaths are bland and sometimes the camera cuts away from them. The weapon of choice for the villain is an axe, which was used in so many movies for good deaths, but here its usage is just not it
The third point: The reactions of the other characters to those deaths is off or nonexistent. To the end of the movie you got those 2 dudes playing "barbut", a gambling game where they gamble the proprieties and belongings of the deceased Selly (again, showing off his wealth - houses, cars, jewelry etc.) after 10 people were murdered in the house in which they are. It is pure nonsense and simply takes away from the importance of the deaths (and I know the movie tried to make the deaths somewhat important by building up the tension through the atmosphere and sound design). At the end this doofus character fought the villain and died and his new girlfriend (or whatever) simply was staring with a blank face after seeing the dude get killed. How am I supposed to believe that you cared about him when you called him a "p*ssy" and "poor" throughout the movie and then for you to just go about your day after he died?
Awful.
This movie was ruined by the horrible acting and by the characters themselves. This was clearly influenced by the real life personas of the vloggers, where they all wanted to have the upper hand and wanted to always appear tough or funny, but this resulted in them being mean, unlikeable and overall a bunch of a**holes.
The jokes fell flat and were just a bunch of mean comments, current slang, typical Bucharest street speech, random playing of manele and low quality slapstick.
This movie was a commercial and nothing more. It left no impression on me and it was uninteresting and not worth my time.
The only good aspects of this movie were the old couple (some well established and accomplished real actors for which I feel bad for playing in this shipwreck) and the quality of the image + the lighting.