Where the Scary Things Are

Where the Scary Things Are

They went looking for trouble... but trouble found them.

Directed by B. Harrison Smith

Produced by Lionsgate

202297 min4.4 / 10

A dark slasher that weaponizes social media obsession and moral corruption, using a captive monster as a vehicle for exploring how viral culture can enable and amplify violence.

The horror begins as Ayla and her high-school friends discover a hideous, semi-human mutant. They keep it prisoner while shooting repulsive viral videos, but the gang’s hunger for “likes” drives them to film the beast performing murderous acts. When one boy sees that Ayla is using the monster’s gruesome violence to settle her own vendettas, he threatens to tell the authorities, but is he too late to save his friends?

Questions people ask

  • Is Where the Scary Things Are violent? Yes, very. More violent than 95% of films.

  • Is Where the Scary Things Are easy watching? No. Less comforting than 92% of films.

  • Does Where the Scary Things Are end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 83% of films.

  • Is Where the Scary Things Are scary? Yes. More frightening than 82% of films.

  • Is Where the Scary Things Are sad? Not especially. Less sad than 59% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

7/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity16

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise4

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love4

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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