★★1/2 out of ★★★★★
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Directed by Jonas Trukanas
NOTE: this film has been making festival rounds under the names We Might Hurt Each Other and Pensive so trailers and press materials may have both names. It screened at the Chattanooga Film Festival as We Might Hurt Each Other.
On the night of their high school graduation, a group of friends had booked a lakehouse to party at. When the house falls through, Marius (Sarunas Rapolas Meliesius) comes to the rescue by suggesting the group go to a cottage that his mother, a realtor, is trying to sell that was the site of a fire that killed a family and left one survivor. When they arrive, the cottage is surrounded by large wooden creepy folk statues that were created by the survivor of the fire and the teens go onto destroy them at their drunken graduation rave. And then the killings start…
For the first Lithuanian horror film, this film was not really original and just OK. My biggest issues with this film were that it took a long time to have any murderous action and that the characters were all so unlikeable that I didn’t care at all what happened to them. In fact, there was one character, Žygis, who was so unappealing to me that I was hoping he’d be offed first! It also suffers from the almost inside joke of horror in that the actors playing the teenagers look much older than their parts. All of these factors detracted from my enjoyment of this film, but these things may not bother other viewers.
The film is coming to Screambox later in 2023.