Awake not Woke!

Really the only thing woke is the token black character. This should of been much more fun than it was. There are no real scares and relied too much on cheap jump scares. The acting is decent, the story is the done before rabid animal attacks variety. The real highlight is the excellent gore FX and some decent kills otherwise pretty average. The biggest weak point is the decision to use an actor in a suit to play the part of the chimp. It is obvious from the first scene on. Everything is off, the movements and actions scream actor and not a real animal. The writing is another weak spot. The plot requires the characters to act like morons and victims the entire time. The house is full of things that could be used effectively as weapons yet not once does anybody grab anything or attempt to fight back. They conveniently ignore or turn their backs to the chimp multiple times to allow it to sneak up on them. Also a lot of the action by the chimp seem implausible or unrealistic. Several scenes meant to be shocking or scary had me laughing instead. The comical cliff dive scene comes to mind. It's not the worst horror movie but don't go in expecting much.

Great watch.

The story was very good with just a hint of predictability. The on-stage illusions were a little too much. If it was more realistic, I would've maxed the rating. The story is set in the late 1800's. Electricity was just becoming available. I haven't read Millhauser's short story on which this movie is based, but I intend to. Norton is one of the best thespians alive (better Hulk than Ruffalo). I can't think of a bad act from him. He did a great job in this character. Rufus Sewell has to be one of the best bad-guy actors since James Woods. The wokeness is absolute zero. Enjoy.

Didn't like the tall-boy wolverine, but it kinda works in this universe.

This is a very difficult show to give a woke rating on. Apparently it's meant to be a satire of extreme woke NPR radio station workplace. So it features every single extremely woke trope and buzzword you can think of and every character is an extreme caricature of some degree of woke. The problem is they don't really go far enough in making fun of these people or showing the insanity. It just feels like you're watching a very woke show. It's not funny just very annoying and every character is a disgusting terrible loudmouth SJW. If your not going to make fun of them or actively show how stupid they are than is it really a satire or just a woke show? These types of people exist and watching and listening to them go about their daily insanity isn't funny it's just irritating. I'm giving this a 2 for woke only because it's not actually meant to be woke but make fun of it, yet somehow still manages to feel like it's woke. If you can tolerate these types of people you may think it's funny, I see enough of these idiots in real life I don't need it in my spare time as well.