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  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Shudder
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Shudder
  • 1 h 44 m

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 time sp...

Directed By: Josh Ruben

Written By: Josh Ruben

  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Shudder
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Shudder
  • 1 h 44 m

Scare Me

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
66
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
5.1
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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 time sp...

Directed By: Josh Ruben

Written By: Josh Ruben

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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5 Reviews
38% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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63% Positive
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38% Mixed
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100
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.
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79
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.
By Tasha Robinson FULL REVIEW

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33% Positive
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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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VicFerrari
Mar 21, 2024
Well acted low budget horror-com which trades more in horror movie reference than actual scares. If only they'd made the lead character a schmuck through actual characterization rather than because he's a white male. It's a cliché that's beyond tired.
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78
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.
By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW
67
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.
By Kate Erbland FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 1, 2020
It works for the most part because of Ruben and Cash and the spiky chemistry they share.
By Benjamin Lee FULL REVIEW
58
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.
By Jesse Hassenger FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Amy Nicholson FULL REVIEW
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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 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.
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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 its stay for at least 50 of them.
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Production Company Irony Point, Scare me, Artists First, Last Rodeo Studios
Release Date Oct 1, 2020
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Want to hear a scary story?
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Awards

Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards
• 1 Nomination

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