Review of Community

Community (2012)
1/10
Transphobic anti-drug horror.
28 December 2013
Warning: Spoilers
There's only very few spoilers in this review.

At best, this movie could've been a stoner-horror flick but it seems that it was written by people who have never even smoked the poisonous weed that this movie centers around.

There are a few good parts in this movie, such as the worn down setting of urban decay and the spooky kids. Overall the first 20 minutes or so of the movie are alright, then suddenly a bunch of pointless and boring minor characters come along, just to be violently killed by other minor characters and from there on, this movie just goes downhill.

Had they bothered developing the character of the actual antagonist played by Terry Bird, then this might have been a better movie but instead they use the "tranny monster" trope which is tasteless and does nothing for the movie. It has been used to criminalize transgender and transsexual people since "silence of the lambs" and the fact that it is still being used as a tool in postmodern horror is appalling.

This is a movie that could've been made in the 1940's, by a Christian sect to ward their young adults off of drugs and promiscuous behavior, not a movie that is relevant as a social commentary on poverty in modern day UK, not to say that this is expected from a horror movie, but it seems like that is what the makers of "Community" have been trying to do.
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