Name: Shook
Genre: Horror
Released: 2021-02-16T06:15:24-08:00
Rating: 53

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Movie Info

When Mia, a social media star, becomes the target of an online terror campaign, she has to solve a series of tests to prevent people she cares about from getting murdered. But is it real? Or is it just a game at her expense?

Genre:

horror
Original Language:

English
Director:

Jennifer Harrington
Producer:

Tara L. Craig
Writer:

Jennifer Harrington
Release Date (Streaming):

Feb 18, 2021

Cast & Crew

Daisye Tutor

Nicola Posener

Octavius J. Johnson

Stephanie Simbari

Emily Goss

Grant Rosenmeyer

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Critic Reviews for Shook

All Critics (15) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (7)

Heavy on censure and woefully light on scares.

February 18, 2021 | Full Review…

Nick Schager
The Daily Beast
"Shook" is done in by its final reveal, which manages to be simultaneously improbable and conventional. For engagement, we'll have to look somewhere else.

February 18, 2021 | Full Review…

Elisabeth Vincentelli
New York Times
It's all very 2021, and you can't help wondering how it will age, but as a launching pad for the director and her cast, it's a very serviceable platform.

February 17, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Leslie Felperin
Guardian
For a movie about the influencer personality, the black mirror reflects right back -- Shook also has its own problems of being shallow, derivative, and even a little out of touch.

February 17, 2021 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Nick Allen
RogerEbert.com
Shook has the requisite twists to make it much more than a straightforward horror-shocker, and the sharp turns are sufficient to have viewers profoundly dizzy about where it's all going to go.

February 17, 2021 | Full Review…

John Anderson
Wall Street Journal
Harrington's solid direction can't salvage the tin-eared screenplay or shoddy performances, or prevent the plot's degeneration into a convoluted mess.

March 2, 2021 | Rating: C- | Full Review…

Andrew Wyatt
The Lens
Shook really slays when it lets it be about Mia, a woman on the internet, having that same internet weaponized against her, while also using it to fight back. But when the wires get crossed, it ends up a messy story with too many threads.

February 23, 2021 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…

Lindsay Traves
CGMagazine
Despite its shortcomings, Shook deserves credit for trying to do a little more with its themes than the average slasher film.

February 18, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Jennie Kermode
Eye for Film
A few truly tense scenes, a good central performance and an interesting blend of real life and digital experiences make Shook worth a watch, but it remains firmly in the camp of horror B-movies.

February 18, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Sophie Maxwell
One Room With A View
Despite Shook's occasional heavy-handedness, the film mostly reaches the glaring social critiques its strains for.

February 18, 2021 | Rating: 7.1/10 | Full Review…

Adesola Thomas
Paste Magazine
Shook is a suspenseful morality tale where nothing is as it seems.

February 18, 2021 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…

Molly Henery
The Blogging Banshee
The film's smatterings of engaging and intriguing social commentary are only ever brief flashes, with generic genre stodge almost always getting in the way.

February 17, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Tom Beasley
Flickering Myth