Review: "We Need to Do Something"

 

The idea for "We Need to Do Something" is better than the movie they made. This tense horror/psychological thriller has a family trapped in their bathroom while sheltering from a massive storm. They can't get out and their emotional fault lines, already amazingly fractured, grow to yawning chasms. 

Blood starts to flow and fears spike to the redline, especially as it becomes apparent there are supernatural forces at play.

With just five people, a movie needs distinctive, sharply drawn characters who we can relate to. But the family falls into fairly typical horror stereotypes -- the odd teen girl, the abusive dad, the innocent younger sibling, the harried mom who is fiercely protective of her kids. 

They behave more like puppets in a street show, performing the same old tropes and tricks we're used to.

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