Movie Review: Content

Content Movie Review by Matt Boiselle

Content – written and directed by Adam Meilech, and starring Megan Boehmcke, Alex Mills and Adam Meilech

Synopsis: Shown through phones and laptops, a seemingly polite director stalks and blackmails his actors into a real-life horror movie.

“Content” is one of those horror movies that has a really solid idea but never fully figures out what to do with it. The film centers around social media obsession, online fame, and the pressure of constantly needing attention, which honestly feels like perfect material for modern horror. There are definitely moments where the movie taps into something genuinely unsettling, but overall it felt more interested in being “deep” than actually being scary. The atmosphere is probably the strongest part of the movie. The neon lighting, distorted camera shots, and constant screen-recording style give everything an uncomfortable vibe that works really well at first. There are a few scenes that genuinely stick with you, especially early on when the tension is still building. The lead actor also does a solid job carrying the movie, because without that performance I think the whole thing would’ve fallen apart much faster.

My biggest issue was the pacing. The movie moves incredibly slow in the middle and starts repeating the same ideas over and over again. You get the point pretty early, but the film keeps hammering it home like it’s saying something groundbreaking. By the time the final act rolls around, it leans so heavily into weird imagery and vague symbolism that it stops being creepy and just becomes frustrating. It also doesn’t help that the movie feels heavily inspired by things we’ve already seen before. It has a very obvious Black Mirror influence mixed with movies like Cam, but it never really brings enough originality to stand out on its own. A lot of the “social commentary” feels pretty surface-level, especially for a movie that clearly thinks it’s making a huge statement.

That said, I wouldn’t call “Content” a bad movie. There’s talent behind it, and I can absolutely see why some horror fans would connect with the slow-burn style and psychological angle. It just didn’t land for me personally. I wanted more tension, more payoff, and honestly just a little more fun. Instead, it mostly felt like a movie trying really hard to be important.

The film landed on UK digital April 27th from Grimmvision.