Trinket Box

Starts out semi-decent, Candyman origin lite. Then quickly goes into STINKER territory. Cheesy scares, boring couple drama, dull "walking through the house" scenes that go nowhere and one of the "cleanest" sex scene for an R rated flick ever! This could've been edited down to a thirty minute short film and still accomplished...whatever it set out to do...which I assume is to bore the 💩 out of the audience. There's even an epilogue scene that seems to go on FOREVER. The filmmakers never heard of an editor apparently. My faith in "Tubi Original" films is equaling "The Asylum" and "Gravitas Ventures"...a guaranteed film TURD! Avoid if possible.

This movie's trailer made me want to watch this. Worst mistake. The movie has an interesting beginning. The rest of the movie is loud with unnecessary music and long drawn out scenes. If you were to watch the beginning and last ten minutes you could literally skip the rest. I'm just glad the theater had food which kept me entertained. I pray there's not a sequel. How this movie has great ratings is beyond me.

This is the review of my spouse: I can't believe my husband convinced me to watch this movie for date night. I typically love all horror movies, even the ones with like 13% rotten tomato scores but I couldn't wait for this movie to end. The script was bad, terrible lighting, and sound was overbearing. The plot had potential but this movie just drags. What a snoozer.

The acting is good; the writing wasn't so great. It was so cliche. The plot started off good. The movie is boring. I have had more excitement waiting on water to boil. It was like so many repeated scenes. The lighting wasn't the best. The movie started to unravel and get boring quickly. It was hard to keep up with what was going on. The movie could have been great. It was pushed in some horrible direction. I am mad at myself for not turning it off. I just kept watching the train wreck. As horrible as it is a part two will probably come out based on the ending; why not cause more suffering. As someone else said we don't need 500 characters to say it suck.

Overall, the movie was fair for a weekend in and watching on TV. I would have wanted a refund if I'd gone to the theater. My biggest criticism is the amount of time the scenes, which I'm sure were paramount to the plot and enjoyment, were extremely dark. I thought my TV turned off a few times it was that dark. Outside of the trinket box being passed around there wasn't a real connection made to the beginning. If the theme was nothing more than old racism still exists then they nailed it. Otherwise, this movie disappointingly left a lot on the table for me. I would not recommend it. Someone else said they were left on the edge of their seat. I was too but that was only because I was waiting for it to end so I could find something else to do with my time.

Right, well as I stumbled upon the 2023 movie titled "Trinket Box", and seeing it was a horror movie, of course I opted to sit down and watch the movie, giving it a fair chance. I had never heard about the movie prior to sitting down to watch it, so I wasn't sure what I was in for here.

And talk about a swing and a miss. In fat, "Trinket Box" from writers and directors Patrycja Kepa and Acoryé White, was a slow burning dumpster fire of a movie. There was virtually nothing interesting happening throughout the course of the 103 minutes that the movie ran for. And that made for a very, very boring viewing experience. Yet, I managed to endure to the very end, which was a disappointing end as well, hoping that the movie would pick up in pace and prove to be entertaining.

That just never happened.

The acting performances in "Trinket Box" were actually fair enough, especially when taking into consideration that the actors and actresses virtually had nothing solid to work with. It was actually actress Sandra Ellis Lafferty, playing Mrs. Davis, whom put on the most memorable and outstanding performance in the movie, and she was but in a mere supporting role. I was only familiar with leading actress Augie Duke in the movie.

Visually then you're not in for anything there. There are no special effects to spruce up a stale, bland and mundane narrative that runs at a pace where even a dead guy would go 'ya might wanna speed it up a notch, fella'.

If you enjoy horror movies, do yourself a favor and don't waste 103 minutes on watching "Trinket Box". Some of us suffered through this ordeal, so you don't have to. You're welcome.

My rating of "Trinket Box" lands on a two out of ten stars.