A Different Kind of Horror: “Ticket to Paradise” (2022)
I will preface less than complimentary reviews with some variation of the sentence “No one sets out to make a bad movie” from now until I quit writing reviews or until I quit watching movies that suck. I will do so because it is, for the most part, true. There are exceptions where filmmakers haven’t cared whether a film is good or not or where the goal has been to make a bad movie. “Cannibal Apocalypse” comes to mind. A variety pack of trash I’ve seen where it’s painfully obvious that no one gave a shit (I bought a four DVD set of Direct to Video garbage shot in New Jersey and Pennsylvania that I wish I still had just to show people; no, I don’t remember any of the titles and mercifully I remember very little of any of the “films” themselves except that one - I shit you not - literally had handmade signs describing what the set was supposed to be; “Gas Station”, for instance…) also lingers. Then there are just plain lazy flicks that I detest because they are just that - lazy. All of A...