The spooky season is well underway, and as is tradition, not every movie and TV show is going to be champagne horror. In fact, some projects were always destined to bomb. While the likes of Werewolf by Night and Smile are being received quite positively, with the former sitting well above 90 percent, this is most certainly not the case of the Netflix adaptation of Stephen King’s Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, which is currently being brutally smacked around on Twitter.
As of writing, Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is sitting at a measly 32% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, however, audiences have been slightly kinder to the film, rating it at 57%.
This tweet is particularly critical of the film, going so far as to state that the horror genre may need to be redefined, simply due to the sheer lack of horror as we know it which actually takes place during the movie.
We’re presuming this next thought is in reference to Joe Hill’s The Black Phone, in which case this is a pretty hot take considering consensus opinions of this film are much more favorable than that of Mr. Harrigan’s Phone.
These harsh reactions on Twitter more or less line up with what early reviews of the film pointed out, being that a key issue with Mr. Harrigan’s Phone just isn’t all that scary for what is supposed to be a horror movie.
In case you’ve already managed to binge your way through everything on offer leading up to Halloween and are after an alleged B-flick, Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is available to stream on Netflix.