{"id":180661,"date":"2021-02-17T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-shook-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:18:00","slug":"watch-shook-with-film-summary-and-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-shook-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Shook with film summary and movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a406ff03b045\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a406ff03b045\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-shook-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Shook_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Shook Online&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-shook-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#Nick_Allen\" >Nick Allen<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-shook-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#Shook_2021\" >Shook (2021)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Shook_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Shook Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/review\/primary_image\/reviews\/shook-movie-review-2021\/shook-movie-review-2021.jpg\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>One of the best accounts to follow on Instagram is \u201cInfluencersinthewild,\u201d in which submitters catch camera-ready wannabe celebs and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> titans in the act of\u00a0hamming it up for their followers, while showing the stark backdrop of the real world\u00a0outside their phone&#8217;s POV. Such a reality check is an easy way to burst an influencer&#8217;s bubble, but that makes them\u00a0easy targets that need some wit whenever stories flip the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> on them. &#8220;Shook,&#8221; about an influencer being tormented by a mysterious caller, takes the bait on making a movie about such social media vanity,\u00a0but its touch-and-go terror hardly offers commentary or cleverness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>Daisye Tutor stars as Mia, a makeup influencer with a wealth of followers. As we see in the opening scene, she attends a red carpet event that is revealed to be staged in a parking lot. Meanwhile there\u2019s a dog killer on the loose in \u201cShook,\u201d but in the beginning the killer goes after one of Mia\u2019s fellow influencers. A stiletto through the\u00a0jaw, an effectively nasty way to go. The death has inspired Mia to nix plans to party with her less-influencing friends Lani (Nicola Poesner),\u00a0Jade (Stephanie Simbari), and boyfriend Santi (Octavius J. Johnson)\u2014instead she&#8217;ll\u00a0help dog-sit Chico, the tiny dog owned by her sister Nicole (Emily Goss). Nicole is off for some scary business, to get a test to see if she has the same disease\u00a0their mother previously had before she died under Nicole\u2019s care. (Mia was off gaining more followers, avoiding this reality.) Suddenly Mia gets a call from Nicole\u2019s creepy, pushy, self-amused neighbor Kellan (Grant Rosenmeyer), and he wants to play a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. But Kellan&#8217;s questions are related to care-taking, and if she gets the questions wrong, or doesn&#8217;t inflict certain pain on herself,\u00a0Mia\u2019s friends will die.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Written and directed by Jennifer Harrington,\u00a0&#8220;Shook&#8221; never comes close to the nerves it&#8217;s aiming for\u2014think Drew\u00a0Barrymore&#8217;s famous phone call\u00a0in the opening of\u00a0Wes Craven&#8217;s slasher classic &#8220;Scream&#8221;\u2014because its\u00a0horror attempts often come from elements that\u00a0are too easy. Or, frankly, lazy. In some of the film&#8217;s intended scares,\u00a0Chico the dog vanishes into the night with a dog killer still on the loose, and later on there\u2019s a sequence in which Mia must administer multiple needles into herself before time runs out. But even dog lovers, and\/or those deathly afraid of needles, will be able to see how transparent &#8220;Shook&#8221;\u00a0is at pressing buttons of discomfort, and hear it with each overly shrill jump-scare,\u00a0therefore making it less nerve-racking.\u00a0The games that &#8220;Shook&#8221;\u00a0tries to play aren&#8217;t very rewarding, especially when its mastermind is so uncreative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There may be no stronger representation for how the movie struggles with depicting influencers than how it\u00a0it\u00a0visualizes <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, which is part of &#8220;Shook&#8221;&#8216;s supposed hook. It starts with promise by cleverly introducing Mia\u2019s friends and boyfriend as Instagram-like profiles, a phantom hand showing their picture and scrolling down to their lower follower numbers but similarly orchestrated\u00a0selfies, as if those were the total constructs of their personalities. But when it&#8217;s time for the movie to depict Mia watching creepy video messages\u00a0of her friends being tortured, &#8220;Shook&#8221; loses that sharpness and literally projects the footage on walls and pillows that surround Mia\u2014a visual that makes sense in theory, or maybe at an art installation,\u00a0but is so analog that it&#8217;s\u00a0antithetical to the modern experience that &#8220;Shook&#8221; otherwise yearns to take to extremes. It looks like someone snuck a projector into whatever room\u00a0Mia is in, and it&#8217;s also frustrating that the script does so little with Mia&#8217;s ingrained and unique character trait of being a professional self-documenter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>Despite all that Tutor gives to the movie, which has much of her phone-acting and texting across the different spectrum of fear and exhaustion, \u201cShook\u201d readily shows the limits of its own premise that unfolds mostly in Nicole&#8217;s house. The script is\u00a0better for the way that it humanizes Mia\u2014it thankfully never writes her off\u2014even if the revealed details about her previously cold-blooded nature with her family comes into focus in heavy-handed ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShook\u201d gets a little more momentum each time there&#8217;s a big twist to Kellan&#8217;s game, with Kellan&#8217;s terror hoping to expose\u00a0the flaws within people who by trade are artificial. But there\u2019s nothing revelatory about this goal in the bigger picture, and there are many parts of the proposed stakes that say nothing\u00a0about\u00a0being an influencer,\u00a0so much as being a person who uses a phone and has friends. For a movie about the influencer personality, the black mirror reflects right back\u2014&#8221;Shook&#8221; also has its own problems of being shallow, derivative, and even a little out of touch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>On Shudder on 2\/18.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nick Allen\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/nick-allen\/featured_NickAllen.jpg\" title=\"Nick Allen\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Nick_Allen\"><\/span>Nick Allen<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Nick Allen is an Assistant Editor at RogerEbert.com and is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section> <\/section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shook movie poster\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/movie\/movie_poster\/shook-2021\/large_shook-poster.jpg\" title=\"Shook movie poster\"><\/img><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Shook_2021\"><\/span> Shook (2021) <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p> <meta content=\"NR\" itemprop=\"contentRating\"><\/meta> Rated NR  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/features\/bright-wall-dark-room-excerpt-gene-kelly\/thumb_bwdr-february.jpeg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 2 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/streaming\/amend-the-fight-for-america-netflix-tv-review-2021\/thumb_amend-tv-review.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 2 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/festivals\/documentarian-steve-james-to-host-workshop-on-february-20th-as-part-of-no-malice-film-contest\/thumb_SJ_NMFC.JPG\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 3 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/streaming\/behind-her-eyes-netflix-tv-review\/thumb_behind-her-eyes.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 1 day ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-movies-tv-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Movies &#038; TV Series <\/a>category<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/shook-movie-review-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Watch Shook Online&#8221; One of the best accounts to follow on Instagram is \u201cInfluencersinthewild,\u201d in which submitters catch camera-ready wannabe celebs and social media titans in the act of\u00a0hamming it up for their followers, while showing the stark backdrop of the real world\u00a0outside their phone&#8217;s POV. 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