Bad Things

2023

1h 23m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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53%

40 Reviews

Tomatometer

20%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

Audience Score

For a group of friends in the Northeast, a weekend getaway at a snowy resort sounds like just what the doctor ordered. An opportunity to reconnect, relax, and recuperate among serene, snow-capped mountains and trees. But peace doesn't last long as the ghosts of guests past and relationships long buried come to light. Soon enough, their trip transforms into a psychological tailspin and bloody nightmare, as both long-deceased guests and the space itself come to life, and the group turn on each other in a race to stay alive.

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Critics Consensus

There are good things and there are Bad Things, and while the film may not rise above its potential -- or source of inspiration -- it delivers a memorable experience.

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Spenser V

A premise clearly inspired by "The Shining" that ultimately fails in every way. The premise opens with four friends traveling to a hotel that one of them inherited. Not that I could figure out why these people are friends. They don't even seem to like each other. This is made worse by the clunky dialogue throughout. The film tries to focus on different elements, including a creepy scene where one character sees a dining room full of people who are presumably dead. She also sees two random joggers that seem to be a reference to the girls in "The Shining" but just come of as comical. The psychological element is at play as well, leaning heavily on the "unreliable narrator" trope. And of course a killer with a chainsaw shows up too. Trouble is, there's no suspense. The tension falls flat. It's obvious who the killer is. What's not obvious is how much of the movie actually happens and how much is the psychosis of the killer. One such scene involves the killing of two people with a chainsaw right in the middle of a busy shopping center. People are walking along nearby and no one even seems to notice what's happening. Are we to infer from this that it was actually some kind of delusion brought on by the deep psychosis of the killer? How much of the film was real and how much was in her head? We don't know. The thing is, the film gives us nothing to judge what's real and what's not. It tries to focus on all these different elements but doesn't dedicate enough to developing any of them to actually succeed.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/24/23

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L H

Man on man. Big sigh. I think I got about 15 minutes into Bad Things and turned it off. The premise seemed interesting which is why I gave it a chance, but the characters were so obnoxious from jump street that I thought, "If they don't all get slaughtered here in the next 2 minutes, I'm out." Two minutes elapsed and all I got was vocal fry, godawful dialogue, and some bootleg Martha Plimpton yelling, "MOM! MOM!" while her friends made catty comments to each other. Even if the rest of the movie was ok, I'll never know and neither should you. Hard pass.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/22/23

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Joseph P

This was practically as bad as the Room, I don't understand how it got made.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/04/23

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Stoner J

How on earth did this CRAP get bettter reviews than Vacancy, a REAL hotel horror thriller, that's actually good. This is the stupidest written, acted and directed movie I've seen in a while. These girls who go to this hotel supposedly as friends to renovate it, are NEVER believable as friends , the dynamics are ridiculous, scenes never finish through the whole thing, they're always separated throughout the flick even when they saw there was a killer on the loose, nobody ever calls 911 despite all this, and it's a shining rip off as well, only the super crappy generic, modern, version! I almost quit this in the first 10 minutes after seeing how crappy it looked, I should have!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/28/23

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April K

Watching this movie was like eating chicken that was not cooked thoroughly.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

08/28/23

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Nicholas P

The only thing bad, is this movie

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/22/23

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Stewart Thorndike

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Ruthie Nodd

Hari Nef

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Maddie

Jared Abrahamson

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

Thorndike moves toward significant storylines and then retreats, failing to take advantage of its potential.

Rated: 2/4

Sep 7, 2023

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Peyton Robinson

RogerEbert.com

“Bad Things” juggles too many elements with too little focus. It plays out like a waiting game, with a pace that stumbles through its 84-minute runtime with plenty of hollow conversations and a few teases of tension.

Rated: 1.5/4

Aug 18, 2023

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Drew Gregory

Autostraddle

At a time when most movies are derivative without engagement, it’s thrilling to get a film that finds originality in reimagination.

Aug 18, 2023

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

If you’re waiting for the script to clarify, don’t: Ultimately seeming less ingeniously tricky than just kinda random, it chooses not to pick any particular explanation, instead offering a shrug...

Sep 20, 2023

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Jonathan W. Hickman

The Newnan Times-Herald

“Bad Things” is an example of the growing body of Generation Z horror, where a chainsaw competes with the destructive power of emotional trauma.

Rated: 6/10

Sep 1, 2023

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Rebecca Johnson

Film Focus Online

Despite boasting great performances and a creepy, claustrophobic setting, Bad Things bites off more than it can chew and becomes a meandering slog with little pay-off.

Rated: 2.5/5

Sep 1, 2023

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Synopsis

For a group of friends in the Northeast, a weekend getaway at a snowy resort sounds like just what the doctor ordered. An opportunity to reconnect, relax, and recuperate among serene, snow-capped mountains and trees. But peace doesn't last long as the ghosts of guests past and relationships long buried come to light. Soon enough, their trip transforms into a psychological tailspin and bloody nightmare, as both long-deceased guests and the space itself come to life, and the group turn on each other in a race to stay alive.

Director: Stewart Thorndike
Producer: George Loucas, Matthew Dean Russell, Amy Williams, Samuel Zimmerman, Nicholas Lazo, Emily Gotto, David Harari
Screenwriter: Stewart Thorndike
Distributor: Shudder
Production Co: Baked Studios
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 18, 2023
Runtime: 1h 23m

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