Review of Scare Me (2020) by Jlau — 04 Oct 2020

More of a showcase for the actors than anything else, two writers (of varying success) tell each other scary stories in a blackout before he gets upset that she was taking uncomplimentary notes on him.

This review of Scare Me (2020) was written by Jlau on 04 Oct 2020.

Scare Me has generally received mixed reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Scare Me

Review of Scare Me (2020)

By Mbeckford (88) on 25 Oct 2020

Given Scare Me takes place mostly in a small winter cabin, the movie rests squarely on the shoulders of a very small cast…

Read Review

Review of Scare Me (2020)

By Bob Strauss (787) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Sep 2020

The best thing about Scare Me is that, for all of its entertaining qualities and acute cuts at white male fragility, this is one excellent…

Read Review

Review of Scare Me (2020)

By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 29 Sep 2020

The idea that movies can easily lose 10 or 15 minutes of running time to curry favor with impatient audiences is often patently absurd, yet…

Read Review

Review of Scare Me (2020)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 02 Oct 2020

Of course, this film wouldn’t work without such engaging storytellers, and Scare Me has that with Cash and Ruben…

Read Review

Review of Scare Me (2020)

By Kate Erbland (681) for IndieWire (3,631) on 01 Oct 2020

Bolstered by a creative storytelling set-up, Ruben and his very game co-star Aya Cash skewr horror tropes as well as cultural obsessions ranging…

Read Review

Review of Scare Me (2020)

By Jluis_001 (2,242) on 27 Feb 2023

I liked the concept but Scare Me has one major flaw that makes it become tedious and repetitive after a while, and that's the fact that its…

Read Review

Review of Scare Me (2020)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for Polygon (677) on 07 Oct 2020

Scare Me plays some thoughtful games with the idea of horror-comedy, and eventually, Ruben uses the self-aware humor to sharpen the shocks…

Read Review

Review of Scare Me (2020)

By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 01 Oct 2020

It works for the most part because of Ruben and Cash and the spiky chemistry they share…

Read Review

Review of Scare Me (2020)

By Amy Nicholson (961) for Variety (12,700) on 03 Feb 2020

Scare Me would work even better onstage. On screen, it feels like an experiment in minimalism…

Read Review

Review of Scare Me (2020)

By Andrew Crump (271) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 07 Oct 2020

There are reasons we enjoy the adrenaline blast horror movies give us…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

More Reviews by Jlau

Review of Knock at the Cabin (2023)

By Jlau (377) on 11 Jun 2023

Dave Bautista comes to your cabin and wants you to kill a family member and if you don't, he and his followers are going to kill themselves…

Read Review

Review of Old (2021)

By Jlau (377) on 05 Oct 2021

Group of tourists get invited to a hotel to enjoy a courtesy drink and a trip to a private beach where they all grow old rapidly and die but…

Read Review

Review of The Night House (2021)

By Jlau (377) on 05 Oct 2021

Woman whose husband recently committed suicide, survived a near death experience when she was younger, investigates his death and finds out…

Read Review

Review of Urban Legend (1998)

By Jlau (377) on 05 Oct 2021

A series of murders take place at college based on urban legends, a subject conveniently being covered by one of the professors, and our main…

Read Review

Review of Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)

By Jlau (377) on 05 Oct 2021

It's a weird Japanese-western alternate universe and a girl has gone missing in the wasteland so they send out detained bank robber Nick Cage…

Read Review

Review of The Roommate (2022)

By Jlau (377) on 05 Oct 2021

Lazy film where college roommate on medication for Bipolar disorder becomes obsessed with the badly-acted girl she's moved in with and obviously…

Read Review

Review of Candyman (1992)

By Jlau (377) on 05 Oct 2021

Graduate student researches the urban legend of a murderous spirit called Candyman, who you can summon by saying his name five times in a mirror…

Read Review

Review of Orphan: First Kill (2022)

By Jlau (377) on 22 Aug 2022

Excellent prequel where a now 25 year old Isabelle Fuhrman plays a 30 year old passing as a 10 year old and it totally doesn't look weird at all…

Read Review

Review of Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)

By Jlau (377) on 01 Nov 2021

A professor writes a book about the Candyman murders and is then killed himself in New Orleans and a teacher and her family find themselves…

Read Review

Review of The Manor (2021)

By Jlau (377) on 01 Nov 2021

Woman in her 70s moves into a nursing home where other residents are having unexplained deaths and she's seeing a tree-person hovering over…

Read Review

More Reviews by Jlau

Popular Movies Right Now

Past Lives

2023

84%62 Reviews

Deadpool

2016

78%1,333 Reviews

The Gentlemen

2020

70%170 Reviews

Dune

2021

77%276 Reviews

Deadpool 2

2018

76%1,635 Reviews

Barbie

2023

68%382 Reviews

Inside Out

2015

86%1,276 Reviews

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

2017

69%660 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

Ford v Ferrari

2019

81%171 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Scare Me

2020

46%11 Reviews

What Doesn't Kill You

2008

59%222 Reviews

Antisocial

2013

36%27 Reviews

Next Gen

2018

67%121 Reviews

The Walk

2015

72%920 Reviews

The Tall Man

2012

54%513 Reviews

1931

86%690 Reviews

Inequality for All

2013

79%163 Reviews

Suicide Kings

1997

66%468 Reviews

Christine

2016

69%170 Reviews