Movie Review: We Need To Do Something (2022) Director: Sean King O' Grady

 Remember the pandemic? This movie sure does, capturing the slow descent into insanity caused by being forced into a small room with family, and no exit. It's a pretty low-budget affair, consisting of one main set. Not a lot of gore here (what we do see is fairly minimal, but terrifying when it happens) but plenty of psychological torture.

The film opens with a family taking shelter in their bathroom during a vicious storm. Bobby, the know-it-all little brother remarks that this storm might contain tornados. His parents ignore this. Bobby, of course, is right, and the twister hits their house, killing the power and throwing an uprooted tree into their house, blocking the bathroom door, their only means of escape.

As they attempt to figure out how to exit the bathroom (dad stupidly lost the only working phone), the father, a chronic alcoholic, begins to mentally break from lack of booze. Mellissa, the pink-haired goth daughter, worries that her weird witch goth girlfriend cast a spell that backfired, and ended up cursing her family. Guess what? She's right!

Days pass and all attempts to leave have failed, until they hear voices that sound like they are in the house. The family shouts for rescue but before this happens they hear horrific noises and the sound of gunfire, then silence. Then things get even worse....

This movie works on the Blair Witch theory of horror, which is that it's better to never actually show the monster and to leave all the details of its existence vague, to make it scarier. If you like that style, you will dig this. Plus, how can you not like a movie that features Ozzy Osbourne (well, his voice anyway) as a mad dog? Leave the lights on when you watch this one. Out of 10: 7.8