Get Away (2020)

A group of obnoxious film students go away for the weekend to shoot a horror movie.  Maddie gets a small part at the last minute and is mortified to find she’s sharing a car with her ex Noah and his new girlfriend.  His new girl is a piece of work. She’s one of those women who acts condescending and superior because she has your ex, while simultaneously being so insecure she’s afraid to let your ex talk to you and hangs all over him so that everyone knows he’s taken.

On the way to the cabins, they steal the head of a scarecrow because the director wants to use the burlap sack for her killers mask. The scarecrow is right next to the road which is an odd place for a scarecrow to be, but this does allow them to get a warning from a creepy stranger who owns the straw man.

The first night they are there people start disappearing and at one point someone walks out of the woods wearing the burlap sack as a joke. This is the type of thing that gets people killed. But everyone stands there in fear. Just once I’d like to see a movie where the guy who plays a stupid joke gets attacked by the people who think they’re about to be murdered.

Who is the killer? The creepy caretaker? The woman who’s scarecrow was beheaded? The film students who made fun of them in class? A stranger or someone who came on the trip?  They did an okay job of hiding who it was since it wasn’t until near the end where one persons actions were odd enough that I thought, this isn’t right.

The film students are unnecessarily sarcastic and the directors personality seems to be anger.  She can’t seem to talk without being aggressive and irritated.  There seems to be no reason for it other than to alienate the audience, but we don’t really need that to happen.

There is a professor who is murdered when she goes to check out the location of a shoot after getting a phone call.  She shows up at the abandoned building and keeps yelling for whoever called but no one answers. At one point someone throws a ball towards her so obviously they’re messing with her.  I’d love to have even her go, screw this and then turn around and leave. If someone is messing with you, just leave.

Also the ending was a bit odd. So we’ve got someone filming people being murdered.  How are they going to get away with it? They are on film doing the murdering. I dont know if the end of the film was to reveal that this person was definitely involved in all the murders, or if it was to reveal they won’t get away with it when people see the film because there is their stupid smiling face after shots of the dead teacher.