I’m mixed on this mixed bag “horror” movie. On the one hand, it’s often effectively moody… but not as the horror movie it sells itself as. But it’s also campy and I’m not sure if it knows it is. I mean, is gloomy camp even a thing?

The flick is about a young woman new to the workforce who has to contend with the (mostly) casual sexism from the men and the bitchy cattiness of the women. She slowly starts to unravel as the pressure of gets to her. Plus, you know, there’s also a tree man haunting her nights. Gotta watch out for those tree men.

This movie feels like a workplace suspense thriller that figured it might as well throw in some low budget scary pollen to sell some rentals. And, hey, I guess it got me watching so a sucker is me. But you could cut the spooky vegetation and have a perfectly good (if uneven) movie about a person’s psychological collapse.

Except… the movie clearly has a sense of humor about itself. I think? Maybe not? Because the way the co-workers act and react to her instability is serious… except when it’s overkill. Or maybe the over-acting rises to the level of unintentional silliness. I’m so mixed on it because the tone of the movie never changes from this moody, dour gloom… even when I was chuckling. They either have made a big damn mistake or they deliberately injected camp into their moody tone poem.

Who knows. The tree man isn’t talking… though some of the things he does in the final act are pretty funny. Probably unintentionally?

So I don’t know if anyone will like this movie in the way it was intended. I think it’s a pretty good workplace horror for most of its runtime… and then a less effective plant-based spookshow. And then a campy good time. Roll the dice and you might get something out of it.

Score: 76