This Low Budget Horror Movie Has A Truly Disappointing Monster At Its Core

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Shenae Grimes-Beech is famous for starring on Degrassi and the reboot of Beverly Hills 90210, and while she hasn't been acting for a while and is focusing on her family, YouTube channel, and podcast, her last role was in the 2018 horror movie The Rake. The movie has a few common features of horror movies: main characters with a traumatic past and family drama who are dealing with a scary supernatural situation. But unfortunately, the movie fails in many ways.

While horror fans might check out The Rake hoping to see a fascinating movie about a monster who gives them nightmares, there isn't much that is scary about this film. The creature in this movie is one of the worst of the genre.

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There are many horror movies based on Creepypasta stories, and the 2018 horror movie The Rake is also adapted from one of these scary tales. According to the Villains Wiki page for The Rake, the monster is a «humanoid creature» who follows people around for a long time and who hurts them when getting angry or upset. Back in 2005, someone shared a story about The Rake monster on 4chan and the website describes it as «pale, bald and skinny humanoid-like entity with long limbs.» While this might sound creepy and reading about this creature might make it seem like it would work perfectly in a horror movie, the 2018 film just doesn't work and that's all thanks to the monster which doesn't inspire much interest from audiences.

The Rake murders Ashley (Shenae Grimes-Beech) and Ben's (Stephen Brodie) parents, and now that it has been two decades since that awful night, they're together again and talking about their thoughts and feelings about the horror. The movie tries to use popular thriller and