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Countdown (2019)
So bad it became funny to me
And i don't mean the actual jokes in the movie, those were just cringeworthy. But pretty much everything this movie tries to do to make you take it seriously has the opposite effect.
A lot of the jumpscares are just funny, and a big reason for that is that they use some of the most overused and generic stock sound effects that you've heard a million times before.
Plus every character is incredibly stupid. In particular the salt circle scene made me both laugh and angry at how stupid these people are. It clearly worked, the demon couldn't get to them. The only reason it failed is because they all just decided to run out of it again. I could understand them doing this the first time because one of them got tricked to leave it. But only one of them died, so the other two characters should be able to figure out to just not leave the circle, no matter what. But they don't even consider it, they just completely leave that idea for absolutely no reason.
I'm not very good at explaining excactly what about this movie was so funny to me, but just trust me when I say this movie is very bad, but it's so bad it funny. At least to me it was.
American Horror Story: Pilot (2011)
Shockingly amateur
This pilot is filled with so many problems I'm actually shocked it even got greenlit. The editing is so bad that it's distracting, cuts at almost every second during dialogue. Sometimes there's even jump cuts at the weirdest places for seemingly no reason. It makes it look like they somehow messed up during shooting. Characters and dialogue is also just so poorly written, but this might be intentional to an extent; to make it feel dreamlike.
So far all I've seen is this pilot, but i would hope it gets better because this is just straight up terrible.