Haunted Heist

The movie ended and the audience was asked if we had any questions, not one hand went up and it was very uncomfortable. I tried to think of a question but failed, kinda like how this comedy failed to make me laugh.  (Fantastic Fest Day Three)

moviemattk ✌🏻

This movie had to be written by a white man who has never met a black person a day in their actual life cause there's no way

Sooplex

Fantastic Fest #10 This is your regular haunted house movie with lots of comedy that sometimes doesn’t hit or that become repetitive at a certain point.

𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚢𝚛𝚊👽

Fantastic Fest #10 In his review for The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, Roger Ebert asked his readers what could usefully be said about the movie in a critical review, other than that he laughed. There are, obviously, other things to critique in a comedy, but as long…

Trace Thurman

Hey, so this is crazy. I’m actually in shock that a black man wrote these stereotypical black caricatures and then introduced a white savior to solve all the problems that had been created. The pacing was weird, the story wasn’t great, this was one of my most anticipated…

𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖍

I was excited to see Haunted Heist, especially with it being Lil Rel Howery’s directorial debut, but unfortunately it was a major miss for me.  There was a lot of room for improvement in areas such as the script, storyline, and even acting performances. Horror comedy is…

Bree Stephens

Fantastic Fest #10: Certainly had its funny moments, but the movie felt like it came to a halt in the third act

Ian W

By the time the mysterious ghosts appear in the decrepit mansion, Haunted Heist struggles to maintain the momentum of its setup, both in mystery and comedy. The jokes get stale, the story gets predictable, and the scares are non-existent. Caught in the purgatorial loop of…

Maxwell J

Watched it for the actors. Haunted Heist is the only comedy where I laughed harder imagining the cast reading the script than I did watching the film. It is advertised as a comedy horror. The horror is that someone forgot to include the comedy.

Dieddy