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A Comedy Horror Film That Middle School Girls Will Love
This review and my ratings are based on an understanding the intended audience is primarily pre-teen and teenage girls. The three lead guys are boyband attractive and spend a lot of time with their clothes off -- in a modest, G-rated sort of way. The preamble, where the three guys meet, is way too long and doesn't blend well with the haunted house plot. But I give the script high marks for having a logical explanation for what happens. Too often writers pass these old dark house dramas off to unexplained supernatural resolutions, which is no fun for the audience. The real mystery, though, is the Boys Love drama overtones mixed in with so much homophobia. Yan Siang's character's name "Little Princess" is particularly offensive. But, of course, the BL aspect turns out to be a twist ending, in that it's not been one at all. The characters are wildly uneven, but that's consistent with comic haunted house dramas like the "Goosebumps" series and going way back to classic horror-comedies like Abbott & Costello's "Hold that Ghost" or Don Knott's "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken." As such, I have to give the three lead guys top marks for making the best out of such erratic writing. What's more remarkable is the characters are supposed to be 16-22 and all of the leads were over 26 when this was filmed. Maybe the fountain of youth was the secret in that hot spring?Was this review helpful to you?
Successfully executed and presented both the comedy and the horror without pretensions
Secrets in the Hot Spring (2018) is not an ambitious film. It knows what it is and thus, successfully executed and presented both the comedy and the horror elements without pretensions.I’m sure you’ve seen comedy horror films that lean more on comedy and isn’t scary at all. There are also films of the same genre that doesn’t give justice to the comedy part. With Secrets in the Hot Spring (2018), you will truly get both the comedy and the horror of the story. And in the end, you will also receive a heartwarming story that completes the film experience.
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Surprisingly funny and endearing
Surprisingly funny and endearing. I still don't think the comedy genre is really my thing — it's honestly just a little too slapstick and loud for me most of the time and Taiwan is a really big culprit of this — but this was still better than expected. The trio has really good chemistry together and it's what makes the movie.Was this review helpful to you?
Super recomendo para quem deseja passar o tempo com uma leve comedia!
Eu estava com esse filme na minha lista no Netflix a bastante tempo, porque as fotos tinham me chamado atenção. Confesso que o filme é muito mais do que aquela mini sinopse diz sobre ele, eu ri do começo ao fim, fiquei rindo que nem uma retardada em cada cena de susto. Esse filme me deixou extremamente feliz, e o que me surpreendeu mt foi o fato dele ter conseguido englobar 3 temas em um só filme.Como eu disso tinha outras em que eu me matava de rir, houve cenas também em que eu fiquei com medo e as cenas que mais me surpreenderam foram as cenas tristes, que eu realmente nn esperava ver em um filme como esses.
É uma combinação perfeita de comedia, "suspense/terror" e tristeza.
Eu gostei bastante da resolução da historia toda e super recomendo para quem quer passar o tempo assistindo algo leve e divertido!
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