Review of The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019) by Theredsky — 03 Dec 2019

This isn’t a movie. It’s just a bunch of scenes strung together to make it look like a film but it fails. I was hoping this would be a bad movie that was funny but it wasn’t. Almost every aspect of this film is terrible.

The only aspect that isn’t terrible is the music but even then the music is bad but not as bad as the rest of the movie. The acting from everybody is awful. No one is trying at all. Hillary Duff wasn’t as bad as everyone else but she still did a terrible job.

She doesn’t feel like Sharon Tate at all. She feels more like a parody. The cinematography was terrible. There were no unique shots at all and they decided to use a little shaky cam for every single shot.

The shaky cam serves no purpose and just makes the film more confusing to look at. I couldn’t tell what was going on at the end of the film because the camera kept shaking. The editing is atrocious.

Each scene is cut randomly within the middle or goes on for far too long. Editing is supposed to give the scenes a smooth, flowing feel to it which is what this film does not do. Since it’s cut randomly, it feels awkward and rough.

It’s incredibly distracting and pulls you out of the film. The script is complete garbage. Every single line of dialogue feels weird and awkward. Some conversations start with one topic but completely change into something else.

The start of conversations are so out of place also. One scene shows the characters playing a game and then all of them out of nowhere start talking about fate. The story is incredibly stupid and confusing.

The entire film is based off one line Sharon Tate said in an interview in the late 60s. The concept of basing a film off a single line could be cool but the film butchers it. They took this heartbreaking murder and decided to turn it into a “horror” movie.

It’s a huge disservice to the actual Sharon Tate and a little bit exploitative. I couldn’t understand what was happening half the time because the film has a hard time differentiating from reality and dreams.

There are many different dream segments but you can’t tell that they are until the main character wakes up. The ending was incredibly dumb. The film does an alternate history scenario where they fight off their attackers and kill them but then it shows that they actually did die? It made no sense at all.

Thank goodness Once Upon a Time in Hollywood or else this is all we would have for Sharon Tate. Overall, The Haunting of Sharon Tate is an atrocious piece of filmmaking with terrible acting, cinematography, editing, script, and story.