Awake not Woke!

Gay mixed race brown/white lead couple whos entire story seems to be 'we are gay and life is hard for us' Their acting is by far the worst of the bunch and they are so over the top all over each other obnoxiously super gay. Asian female house sitter/friend fill out the DEI boxes. This is yet another failed horror/comedy. The horror is not scary and more of the silly parody type. The comedy is unfunny awkward eye rolling cringe humor. Parker Posey is actually the best thing about this movie but has hardly any screen time so it's not worth watching just for her scenes.

Lgbtq+ representation.

Anti-commie goodness

The film is based on an autobiographical novel that many historians dispute. It is hard to believe that anyone could escape from a Soviet gulag in Siberia and walk all the way to India. True or not, it makes for a good movie. The beginning and ending scenes are powerful, though in-between it can drag as people slowly starve.

DEI casting everywhere. Virtually no straight white males to be found. As far as I can remember every single onscreen couple except the first one is mixed race. At least one gay character that I can remember. Nasty unlikable female head of the company is a terrible actor. This has every woke buzzword thrown out there you can imagine. Half of this movie is a bad cliché rom com and then they try to shoehorn in an even more cliché slasher and then dipped the entire thing into the woke toilet for good measure. The dialogue is so bad the entire script feels like it was written by a woke social media addicted Gen Z who thinks they are so clever. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if this was written at least partially by A.I. The music is out of place and there is an actual dress up romcom montage. Then there is the lazy incompetent writing. Why are there loud thundering footsteps when the killer walks like he weighs 500lbs and is stomp walking, except of course when the script requires him to suddenly appear next to someone then he's a stealthy ninja. Why is the police station in a major city virtually completely empty of staff. Why when the lights suddenly go out in the station is there no emergency lighting, and why do the lights then suddenly start flickering on and off for no reason other than needed atmosphere. It is established this serial killer has been active around the country for several years. The FBI would be in charge of the case and would be there to take over not local detectives. Spoiler........... The killers reveal makes absolutely no sense. Look at the height and build of the killer throughout the movie vs what the killers builds actually look like, it's not even close. That's not clever that's just bad writing and filmmaking. Also the police IT guy and the detective are what just transferring jobs multiple times at random all over the country to carry out the murders? The only reason this gets 1 star instead of 0 is for some halfway decent FX. There really is no reason to watch the garbage.