Scare Me

Name: Scare Me
Genre: Horror
Released: October 1, 2020
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Aya Cash, Chris Redd, Josh Ruben, Lauren Sick, Rebecca Drysdale

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Shudder | Release Date (Streaming): October 1, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Aya Cash, Chris Redd, Josh Ruben, Lauren Sick, Rebecca Drysdale

Summary: Fred (Josh Ruben), a frustrated copywriter, checks in to a winter cabin to start his first novel. While jogging in the nearby woods, he meets Fanny (Aya Cash), a successful and smug young horror author who fuels his insecurities. During a power outage, Fanny challenges Fred to tell a scary story. As a storm sets in, they pass the timeFred (Josh Ruben), a frustrated copywriter, checks in to a winter cabin to start his first novel. While jogging in the nearby woods, he meets Fanny (Aya Cash), a successful and smug young horror author who fuels his insecurities. During a power outage, Fanny challenges Fred to tell a scary story. As a storm sets in, they pass the time spinning spooky tales fueled by the tensions between them, and Fred is forced to confront his ultimate fear: Fanny is the better storyteller. The stakes are raised when they’re visited by a horror fan (Chris Redd) who delivers levity (and a pizza) to the proceedings.… Expand

Director: Josh Ruben

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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Bob Strauss

Sep 29, 2020

The best thing about Scare Me is that, for all of its entertaining qualities and acute cuts at white male fragility, this is one excellent guide to writing and filming good horror. Read full review

Polygon Tasha Robinson

Oct 7, 2020

Scare Me plays some thoughtful games with the idea of horror-comedy, and eventually, Ruben uses the self-aware humor to sharpen the shocks. Read full review

Andrew Crump

Oct 7, 2020

There are reasons we enjoy the adrenaline blast horror movies give us. Scare Me, which should be essential viewing as the Halloween season dawns, understands those reasons well and celebrates them with enough laughs and gasps to leave viewers choking. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Oct 1, 2020

Bolstered by a creative storytelling set-up, Ruben and his very game co-star Aya Cash skewr horror tropes as well as cultural obsessions ranging from TV talent shows to the Bechdel Test. The result is a winking horror comedy with a lot on its mind — perhaps too much. Read full review

The Guardian Benjamin Lee

Oct 1, 2020

It works for the most part because of Ruben and Cash and the spiky chemistry they share. Read full review

Jesse Hassenger

Sep 29, 2020

The idea that movies can easily lose 10 or 15 minutes of running time to curry favor with impatient audiences is often patently absurd, yet nearly every single scene in Scare Me feels some degree of overlong. Read full review

Amy Nicholson

Feb 3, 2020

Scare Me would work even better onstage. On screen, it feels like an experiment in minimalism. The film is heavy-handed only in Fred’s fear of emasculation and Fanny’s digs at “desperate white dudes,” troweled on for socially relevant heft. Read full review

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JLau

Oct 4, 2020

More of a showcase for the actors than anything else, two writers (of varying success) tell each other scary stories in a blackout before he gets upset that she was taking uncomplimentary notes on him.

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mbeckford

Oct 25, 2020

Given "Scare Me" takes place mostly in a small winter cabin, the movie rests squarely on the shoulders of a very small cast. Aya Cash, a recent standout of Amazon's "The Boys" season 2, is excellent in this tight, compact thriller about two authors (one successful, one struggling) trying toGiven "Scare Me" takes place mostly in a small winter cabin, the movie rests squarely on the shoulders of a very small cast. Aya Cash, a recent standout of Amazon's "The Boys" season 2, is excellent in this tight, compact thriller about two authors (one successful, one struggling) trying to scare each other with impromptu stories. The pizza delivery guy Chris Redd injects welcome humor and energy as he gets roped into the "rap battle" (with scary stories instead of rap). Decently entertaining but would make a better play on Broadway.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Feb 27, 2023

I liked the concept but Scare Me has one major flaw that makes it become tedious and repetitive after a while, and that's the fact that its structure and style resemble that of a TV episode of some sort of anthology, and that means that with a running time of 100 minutes, Scare Me abuses itsI liked the concept but Scare Me has one major flaw that makes it become tedious and repetitive after a while, and that's the fact that its structure and style resemble that of a TV episode of some sort of anthology, and that means that with a running time of 100 minutes, Scare Me abuses its stay for at least 50 of them.… Expand

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