After sitting on the shelf unreleased due to the fiasco that
was The Weinstein Company/Dimension Films where it was left without a
distributor for some time, the film Polaroid (2019) finally saw the light of
day courtesy of Vertical Entertainment.
Written by Blair Butler but based on the short film written and directed
by Lars Klevberg (who directs this film), Polaroid is the story of Bird Fitcher
(Katheryn Prescott) who’s a little bit of an outcast to her fellow students
but she has an eye for photography. One
day, her friend gives her an antique Polaroid camera as a gift. After she uses the camera to take a photo of
her friends, each person in the photo mysteriously starts to die in what
appears to be accidents.
Now Bird and her friends have to discover the mystery of the
Polaroid camera in order to save themselves while tensions and blame point to
Bird who was responsible for taking the photo in the first place.
Polaroid borrows a lot from the film Final Destination
(2000) but without the ingenuity and gore as this film comes off as a very
pedestrian film hampered by the PG-13 rating.
The CGI monster is barely passable as it lacks originality and the film
is filled with pretty bland characters typical of an early ’00 teen horror
film. Prescott is the true standout in
the film and not even a supporting performance from Mitch Pileggi (Walter Skinner
of The X-Files) can save this film. It’s
pretty basic PG-13 teen horror fare. Of note
is the fact that this film allowed director Klevberg to get hired on the remake
of Child’s Play (2019), a much better use of his abilities.
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