Open 24 Hours Movie Review
After being released from prison for setting her boyfriend on fire, Mary (Vanessa Grasse, Leatherface) gets a job working over night at a gas station. Having watched her boyfriend kill several girls, Mary now suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and has hallucinations of extreme violence. During her first night on the job, Mary has visions of her boyfriend and others--are they real, or all in her head? This is the question and premise of this 2018 flick
Can you see him?
The main issue with this movie is the lengths it goes to make everything happening so implausible you really don't care if what she is seeing is real or not. This is one of those movies where the killer knows precisely what every single other character will do at every moment. Speaking of the killer (or killers), he/she/they wear an outfit that will put you in mind of several other movies--I'll let you count them. The acting is decent, and probably a little better than I expected it to be. Horror fans will likely recognize at least one actor in this one--Brendan Fletcher of Freddy vs. Jason fame plays Mary's co-worker Bobby.
Maybe you won't recognize him
There's plenty of ridiculousness going on throughout this movie. How did the killer know what everybody was going to do? How did nobody see him do it? Why did Bobby let Mary have the shotgun when she could barely control herself and he seemed relatively fine? Not all is bad though. The killings are brutal and look quite convincing. There's also a couple twists that, while not completely unpredictable, are entertaining enough. The final battle between Mary and the killer leaves a lot to be desired, but did remind me just a bit of The Lost Boys, and that's never a bad thing. Open 24 Hours is a middle of the road type horror movie--you may enjoy it while watching, but won't watch it again...unless it is so unmemorable you actually forget you have already seen it.
On A Scale Of One To Ten: 5
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