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Triggered



IMDb Info

Release Year: 2020
Runtime: 1h 34min
Country: South Africa
Language: English
Genre Tags: Action, Comedy, Horror
Plot Summary: 9 old high school "friends" have a 5 year reunion camping in a forest. They all have secrets. Their old science teacher straps a time-bomb to each of them. Killing another gives one their time. Last one lives.

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phancy.com rating:

phancy.com notes: Unlikeable characters kill each other. Almost all the dialog is shouted. The South African actors comically fail to deliver convincing American accents and cultural references.


Outside Reviews:

Brian Tallerico
2.5 out of 4 stars - rogerebert.com

Triggered unexpectedly lives up to its clever potential, reminding viewers how quickly average people will act to protect their own self-interests, even if that means murder. A few weak performances in the ensemble and some generic direction are off-set by the sheer momentum of the piece - it's imperfect but it's never boring. And, at its best, it's self-aware in a way that's reminiscent of the '90s slasher renaissance in films like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer.


Richard Roeper
3 out of 4 stars - Triggered': In darkly funny horror film, some won't survive an explosive game of Survivor

You know that insurance commercial where the dimwitted young people are racing through the woods, trying to escape from a masked killer, and they eschew the running car in favor of hiding behind the chainsaws? The nine desperate millennials forced to play a deadly game of Survivor deep in the woods in Triggered aren't quite as dopey as those insurance-ad protagonists but they're just as shrill and irritating, and there comes a point in this darkly funny and explosively bloody horror story where you're not exactly rooting for everyone to survive.