For a movie with an abundance of testicles, this film had no balls to speak of.
The admittedly excellent direction, glorious synth soundtrack, fun gore & makeup effects and decent production design can't make up for the least likable (or interesting) cast of characters I've seen in a Horror film in years and a story as predictable and cliched and unbearably slow as it is obnoxiously safe. If this film had any guts whatsoever, it would have ended with all these characters either dead or possessed and the world at an end as we know it. Instead, we get an undeserved and tacked on happy ending for a bunch of horrible people who didn't develop or regress in any way. The fact that a film with as cool a concept as this is not only not one of my favorite films of the year, but actually pretty bad, is heart wrenching. I love Succubus Horror. I love 90s teen Horror comedy. I love this film's tone and aesthetic. But the meat of Porno is rotten to the core.
This is one of the worst years for Horror since the 2000s and Porno marks yet another inexplicable disappointment that should have been a great film.
Pity.
The admittedly excellent direction, glorious synth soundtrack, fun gore & makeup effects and decent production design can't make up for the least likable (or interesting) cast of characters I've seen in a Horror film in years and a story as predictable and cliched and unbearably slow as it is obnoxiously safe. If this film had any guts whatsoever, it would have ended with all these characters either dead or possessed and the world at an end as we know it. Instead, we get an undeserved and tacked on happy ending for a bunch of horrible people who didn't develop or regress in any way. The fact that a film with as cool a concept as this is not only not one of my favorite films of the year, but actually pretty bad, is heart wrenching. I love Succubus Horror. I love 90s teen Horror comedy. I love this film's tone and aesthetic. But the meat of Porno is rotten to the core.
This is one of the worst years for Horror since the 2000s and Porno marks yet another inexplicable disappointment that should have been a great film.
Pity.