Bingo Hell

Director: Gigi Saul Guerrero
Year Released: 2021
Rating: 0.0

In the cozy community of Oak Springs, a charlatan named Mr. Big (Richard Brake) has shown up and opened a new bingo parlor which promises huge, "life changing" prizes, except all the winners end up dying, so neighborhood watchdog/matriarch Lupita (Adriana Barraza) goes on the offensive to shut the place down.  It's an interesting change of pace for a horror movie to  feature so many senior citizens - so it does have that going in its favor - but that doesn't excuse the hideous over-acting and exaggerated direction: Guerrero all but shoves her cameras up her subjects' nostrils (there's way too much mouth foam/drool/vomit as is).  It concludes with some toothless message about how "people are our homes, not places" ... I like my friends, but I'm never living out of a tent with them in the woods.