20 Recent Movies EVERYONE Knew Would Suck
4. Twisted
Kicking a trailer off with "from the producer of Saw" isn't quite the flex Paramount thought it was when trying to market Twisted - the new film from Saw filmmaker Darren Lynn Bousman.
Twisted has a fun enough premise, centred around two millennial scam artists who have the tables turned on them by a serial killer, and it's tough not to love the central pairing of Lauren LaVera and Djimon Hounsou, but as the trailers made abundantly clear, everything about this movie screams cheap-with-a-capital-C.
A low budget need not be the end of the world of course, but considering Bousman's rather iffy streak of releases recently, it was tough to anticipate a banger here.
And though LaVera certainly elevates the experience with her cunning performance, Twisted is ultimately an overly familiar, predictable, and underwhelming squandering of her talents - one that came and went without making a dent back in February.