You have to say one thing about the hapless characters in the new horror film directed by Alastair Orr (House on Willow Street, Indigenous): They at least know exactly what kind of movie they're in.
Turning homicidally on each other in the woods with bombs attached to their chests, they manage to throw in joking references to the Saw movies and John Wick, among other things.
The problem is that these occasionally clever throwaway gags in Triggered mostly remind you of far better viewing experiences.
David D. Jones' script provides the sort of high concept — albeit not a particularly original one — that seems to fuel so many grisly genre exercises these days.
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