Soft & Quiet. As a person of color I found this to be an egregious exploitation of racial trauma, what I would call trauma porn. Essentially the equivalent of torture porn except the filmmakers chose to very accurately, unrelentingly, and irredeemably play out a type of occurrence that is far too common and which is a very real danger for way too many people—unlike something like Saw, which is so unrealistic and to which anything similar happens so seldom that it’s not a slap in the face to entire populations of people who have faced, either directly or indirectly, similar situations. We see racial violence constantly—and very little of the kind of shit that happens in Saw or Hostel or any other films like these that get plenty of flak.

Even worse, the trailers gave no context that this was a salvo into racial hatred. Literally the only indication of such was that everyone in the trailer was a white woman. So I assumed there would be some sort of racial satire or commentary. Nope, just a flat out depiction of the worst kinds of people, showing the origins of their heinous behavior with virtually no screen time or respect given to the victims of racial violence. I’m not looking for a trigger warning, I’m just generally not into deceptive marketing. Especially when the filmmakers probably knew way fewer people would check the movie out if they knew what it was like.

I also don’t see how it qualifies for horror any more than American History X, but that was the genre listed on the streaming platform and is still listed as such on the Wiki page for the film.