Review of The Clovehitch Killer (2018) by Dontdropthesoap — 30 May 2021

Boring. The movie removes any tension that you would have right at the start - there's no questions about who the killer is. It basically outright tells you from the first 5 minutes. You could argue that it creates some kind of tension knowing who the killer is from the start, but they remove that with boring uninteresting characters.

The lead child has a very monotone performance and shows zero character or interesting traits about him. I can't even name one thing the kid is interested in, that's because they don't give him any unique traits.

The other child lead is much better, she at least has some depth and shows signs of being a real human being. The reason these characters fail for me is they have nothing to relate to. They aren't characters.

They are cardboard cutouts of people. The father character is probably the most uninteresting killer I've seen in a long time. He's not even fun with the way he kills people. I feel like this is a very stereotype version of a serial killer.

He ties people up because of sexual needs and kills them. This son character is so dumb it's frustrating. When confronted with the truth by his father, and he basically outright tells the child that he's a serial killer, the kid says "burn the evidence or turn yourself in".

And what do they do? They burn the evidence. The ending is just bad. Very unsatisfying. The child wants to defend his father for whatever reason, despite the numerous killings he's done with tons of evidence to support it.

He instead protects his father by killing him in a way to where the police won't have any suspicions that the father was the Clovehitch killer. Don't waste your time on this one.