Film Review – Triggered

And you thought you were having a bad day. Imagine being one of the characters in “Triggered,” waking up after being gassed, realizing that a special bomb-laden vest has been strapped to your body, ready to explode at any moment, made part of a sick game. And then imagine being an actor in the picture, forced to madly improv your way through a wafer-thin script by David D. Jones (in his first produced work) while director Alastair Orr (“House on Willow Street,” “Indigenous”) forgoes the arrangement of shots, preferring to treat the camera like a kickball in an attempt to create visual energy out of next to nothing. And then imagine watching the feature, which is absurdly coarse for no reason, filled with poorly realized characters and a half-baked premise, often teasing the idea of becoming a parody of a horror film before it suddenly snaps back to being serious. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com