If you’re a Daisy Ridley completionist, watch at your own risk. My greatest hope for anyone finding this review is that it at least gets that across.
And in case it wasn’t clear already, it definitely doesn’t fall into the “so bad, it’s good” camp. Its story is incomprehensible, it isn’t scary at all, and the acting is wall-to-wall bad. Scrawl is a school project which had the good fortune of having the star of the current run of Star Wars films featured in a supporting role before she became famous. We’ve seen her in a few movies at this point and know she’s a very capable actress, but no one in her position would have stood a chance. There’s nothing for her to play off of on the page or on set with her.
SCRAWL REVIEW MOVIE
But everything in this movie is bad, so it’s not noticeable given what’s going on. But you don’t care about the actors other than Daisy Ridley. Sometimes, they’re screaming when they shouldn’t usually, they’re quiet and measured when the circumstances are clearly calling for the opposite. It’s clear most of Scrawl’s cast are amateurs at best and not actors at all at worst. The acting doesn’t help the scattered story, either. It doesn’t make the confusing story easier to follow along with when you don’t know where the characters in a scene are standing in relation to each other. The camera work is amateur-looking as well, with most of the movie playing out in medium shots and leading to a lot of instances of bad blocking. Painfully, the opening 10 minutes or so of the movie, where a lot of backstory for a few of the characters is supposed to be established, has almost no dialogue to help tell the story. There are long stretches where it seems like there wasn’t a sound person available on set to record audio, so all the sound design was very obviously cobbled together after the fact. Like, there’s a scene where the snout of a werewolf Halloween mask chases a boy around cheap. She doesn’t believe them, and that’s the end of that. There is a scene where two characters watch a third get murdered and run to the local store to tell one of their moms. There is no tension, no stakes, no pulse. This is a horror movie in that people die and there is blood.
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