Anything that aims to explore the subject and consequences of cyber-bullying earns respect. Cyber-bullying is a very relevant and tough subject, one that needs to be talked about and made awareness of more and dealt with more seriously than it is, considering the suicide rate that has stemmed from it.

It does pain me to say this, because part of me really wanted to admire it because of the subject, but '#Horror' does not do a good job at all with the subject. Not only is it one of the most catastrophic wastes of great potential that has been seen in any film from personal experience, it is a real horror of a film on its own merits. '#Horror' is a complete failure at showing the full horrors of this subject, in fact it doesn't really do anything with it and the viewer is actually distracting by how badly every component is done to appreciate anything that the film says.

For one thing, it is agreed that '#Horror' looks terrible. It is drably and too darkly lit and the photography tries to be clever, or seems to think it is, but is instead self-indulgent and chaotic. Worst of all is the editing, this gave me a headache and made my head swim and the film is lucky that it didn't cause a seizure. It is very obvious that this was a directing debut, because there is no style and there is a real sense of being ill at ease with the material and that there was no idea how to direct the film or what to do with it.

Music-wise, it's over-obvious and intrusive. It never adds anything to the atmosphere and is even discordant with it. Sound is muddied.

The script is awkward and never rings true, with a lot of ridiculousness and unintentional humour. It fails to say anything illuminating, it doesn't really say much at all. Learnt nothing and felt nothing, for such a subject that couldn't have been a worse thing to commit. As said, the full horrors are half-baked at best and not really explored, there is no tension, suspense or emotional impact. Pacing is a big issue, the film takes far too long to get going with a story that is mostly uneventful, and then the last third is very rushed.

Felt nothing for the truly obnoxious characters, ones that are not developed at all pretty much and behave in a way that makes one hate them so much rather than empathise or relate, and the acting is incredibly bad with the more dependable bigger names used poorly that you forget they're even there.

Overall, horrific. 1/10 Bethany Cox

I have no idea what the idea behind #HORROR was but it's certainly not entertaining in the slightest. It's a story about cyberbullying, in which the usual group of obnoxious, vain and self-centred teenage girls hole up at a remote "glass house" for a party which soon spirals out of control with the usual brain-dead arguments and prejudices arising. The lengthy wraparound story with Chloe Sevigny adds zero to the tale and appears to be there just to fill out the running time. The inclusion of the sleazy father character is a step too far, leaving this an uninteresting and unappetising production.

#Horror is a who-dun-it or 12 year old girls whose parents have no issue with a little swearing. The opening credits are done in about 30 seconds and are geared toward an audience that lives on their smart phone.

A group of 12 year old over privileged girls are having a dress up party at Sophia's (Bridget McGarry) upscale house once owned by an artist who killed his guests and is still at large. Sam (Sadie Seelert) is the first out cast to the clique. She is a scholar student from the less than snob area of Greenwich (?),Conn. She was invited by Kat (Haley Murphy) our second outcast. She was picked on when her mother died and has returned the favor. She is bitter and angry. Our third outcast is the stereotypical fat girl ( Emma Adler). The girls pick on each other and they all agree "Being 12 sucks."

Most of the film consists of a group of girls doing what unsupervised girls do being allowed to play with art, dress up with real diamonds and furs, and drink straight vodka. And in one case...eat cupcakes. There is a murder that happens in the opening scene, a man having sex in a Ferrari. Most people garage their Ferrari and Jaguars in the winter in Connecticut due to the salt thrown on the highways. Just saying.

The movie was a bunch of young looking 18 year old girls acting as if they were 12. The irony is when they cast teen girls, they normally cast women in their twenties. The film contrasts how the girls act when they have their electronic devices living in their own world and when they experiment living without them sharing their lives. While this is a who-dun-it, I never really concentrated on that aspect.

Your 12 year old might like it, if your are willing to let them watch it.

Guide: F-word. Brief implied sex. no nudity.