10 Recent Horror Movies That Were ALMOST Amazing
2. Don't Move
Don't Move is seemingly one of those tight, efficient "gimmick thrillers" that gets in, does its thing, and gets out before you can possibly lose interest.
Centered around a woman (Kelsey Asbille) who is attacked by a serial killer (Finn Wittrock) and injected with a paralytic agent which will soon shut her body down, the Sam Raimi-produced movie makes good on its intriguing setup for the most part, mining enormous tension from our protagonist's fast-fading faculties and the two strong central performances.
The problem, inevitably, is that the filmmakers evidently realised this is a tough premise to wring even just 92 minutes out of, and so in the second half of Don't Move there's an increasing amount of wheel-spinning clearly intended to pad the runtime out.
The contrivances start piling up fast in order to prevent our hero from being finished off by her assailant in short order, and so it's little surprise that some were left feeling Don't Move might've worked best as a more modest 30 or 40-minute short, or even an hour-long episode of a horror anthology TV show.
Still, it's well made and brilliantly acted, so there's plenty to enjoy here even if it ends up falling way shy of greatness.