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A bullied teenager is sent to a reform school where he accidentally summons the spirit of a girl, herself a victim of bullying, who takes vengeance on his tormentors.
We have all, at some point in our lives, witnessed some form of bullying, whether to ourselves or to family members or friends. Bullying is an epidemic that needs to be controlled and going by the events that transpire in “Some Kind of Hate,” I know there will be plenty of people that will acknowledge and approve with the outcome the bullies succumb to in this movie. Seeing that this is labelled a horror film, you can let your imagination run riot. Lincoln (Ronen Rubinstein) is a young man who lives with an abusive father but he has it no better in school. After being bullied for years by the same oppressor, he finally snaps and retaliates but he is the one that is sent to a reform school in the middle of the desert.
Once there, the facility’s administrator, Jack (Michael Polish), tries to instill into the young men and women, the importance of being in control and not giving in to the temptation to want to retaliate against those who initiate any form of aggression. Lincoln befriends Isaac (Spencer Breslin) and Kaitlin (Grace Phipps) but soon thereafter, he once again falls victim to bullying in the form of Willie (Maestro Harrell), a longtime resident at the facility. Not wanting a repeat of what happened in his high school, Lincoln walks away from all confrontations until Willie and some friends jump him and beat him up. Lincoln retreats to an old warehouse that sits on the back of the property and while there, expresses aloud, his desire to want to kill them all.
The next day Willie is found dead, his wrists slit, giving the impression of suicide. When Willie’s accomplices begin to die one by one, Lincoln soon discovers that a young girl named Moira (Sierra McCormick), was bullied at the school many years ago and took her own life as a result and he has inadvertently summoned her vengeful spirit. Now both he and Kaitlin must stop her before she kills everyone.
“Some Kind of Hate” has all the elements of a clichéd, run-of-the-mill horror movie but it is in Moira’s method of killing, that separates it from everything else. We have all seen the hack-and-slash methods utilized by Freddy, Jason and Michael but Moira is elevated to a new level altogether because of her modus operandi and it is this aspect that liberates the film from all the tired and uninspiring dreck out there. Sierra McCormick as the avenging Moira, brings elements of sadness and empathy to her character but quickly transforms when she has the opportunity to confront those who persecuted and tormented her when she was alive.
Director Adam Egypt Mortimer has crafted an old-fashioned horror film, complete with isolated locale and plenty of young, beautiful teenagers who serve no other purpose than to have sex and die. What more could you want?
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