The Mad Hatter (2021)

• Year: 2021
• Released: 29 Jan 2021
• Country: United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10746060/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_mad_hatter
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Horror, Thriller
• Runtime: 90 min
• Writer: R.V. Romero, Cate Devaney, Armando Gutierrez
• Director: Cate Devaney
• Cast: Armando Gutierrez, Nick Miller, Samuel Caleb Walker
• Keywords: fairy tale, 爱丽丝仙境, 惊悚,

	2.8/10
	21% – Audience

The Mad Hatter Storyline

Henry and three of his classmates encounter mind-bending ghostly terror when they volunteer for a weekend study with their psychology professor in the haunted ‘Mad Hatter’ mansion.

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Visually Stunning

The movie is like a nightmare that keeps going in circles, so you feel jerked around as a viewer. It’s very unsatisfying in that respect. However, whoever did the photography and special effects really deserves applause. This film is as well lit, shot and post-produced as any major Hollywood film with much more financial backing. I was getting Guillermo del Toro vibes while watching its beautiful visuals. So, while the movie, on the whole, is a miss, there’s some really great talent featured here that will hopefully flourish in the film industry.

Much worse than it needed to be

The title of the movie intrigued me: after all, how could a horror movie that looked at the inner workings of The Mad Hatter NOT be fun and scary? Even the Disney version of the Mad Hatter was creepy in his own right. But this movie followed the pattern of The Black Dahlia, using what should have been the main focus of the film as a set piece on which to hang the suggestion of a plot. It was truly an embarrassing effort turned out by people who should know better. Speaking of “people who should know better,” I should have known better than to stick around when the professor described the hatter’s parties as “drug-fueled orgies.”

No effort was made to give any dimension to the hatter. At one point, he was described as “the best hatter.” At another, it’s explained that he may have gone mad because he lost his business. No explanation was given for any of it: did he have innovative designs that somehow went wrong? Did someone die from one of his creations? No one expects a lot of character development in a horror movie, but devoting more than two lines to his life history might have been nice. How about a few facts slipping their way in? The hatter could have gone mad simply BECAUSE he was so successful. The chemicals hatters used to cure hides for their hat-making were, in fact, poisons. Mercury could be considered a cause for his madness. Think about how much better this could have been: the popular and successful hatter invites the wealthy people of the area to his house for a fancy dress ball. A few people in the scene comment about how his behavior has changed and it’s good seeing him get “back to normal.” Instead of the house getting burned down, he poisons them all and watches them drop, one by one. What he didn’t notice that one of the party-goers has given his daughter a poisoned petit four. She dies, too, as he cradles her in his arms. Then, having eaten nothing during his party, he goes into the dining room, props her up in a chair with food on her plate, and sits near her to consume a feast. THEN he intentionally burns the place, to “purify” it.

Dang, I might have to write that myself.

It would have taken just a few minutes to give the plot a strong premise, one that would have worked so much better. However, it’s 2021 and 2021 seems to demand wokeness and debauchery. What a shame.

This was definitely pretty bad…

Wow. Just wow.

I was lured in on the premise of the movie’s title, which turned out to be a ruse. So don’t succumb to that very same mistake. While this abysmal movie might actually be based on contents of the original story, don’t fall into the pit and get suckered in to watch this atrocity of a movie.

The storyline told in this 2021 movie “The Mad Hatter”, as written by R. V. Romero and Cate Devaney, was just a travesty. The whole script felt rushed and lacked a proper red thread throughout the course of the movie. And that made for a less than wholesome entertainment experience, let me just tell you that. In fact, the storyline here feels like the two writers sat down apart and wrote segments for the movie without corresponding and then had to piece the segments together afterwards. It was just a scrambled heap of an attempt of making a movie.

The acting in the movie was, I suppose, fair enough, given the fact that the actors and actresses had very little to work with in terms of a proper script or interesting characters. Now, the movie has Michael Berryman on the cast list, so that counted for something and that was also one of the reasons why I sat down to watch “The Mad Hatter”. But as luck would have it, he wasn’t given much screen time, so don’t get your hopes up.

“The Mad Hatter” is listed as a thriller and horror movie. Sure, if you are new to the genre, then you might get some thrills from this movie, or even be mildly scared. But for a horror veteran, such as myself, “The Mad Hatter” was just a swing and a miss.

Sure, the production value of the movie was actually good, but that hardly matters when a movie is devoid of a properly entertaining script and storyline, or lacking interesting characters or scary moments.

This is by no means a movie that I would recommend you rush out to waste your time, money or effort on. It was a movie that fell short of delivering on all parameters.

My rating of “The Mad Hatter” lands on a mere two out of ten stars.