Yet, in the end, "Touch Me" is neither a fully realized satire nor a classically gory horror movie. In trying to do too much, the filmmakers end up with much less than they could have. More from ...

Soderbergh uses the barrier of the screen as part of the film’s story—as if to say we can look, but we can’t touch ... is hardly a traditional work of horror. There are no big jump scares ...

Yet, in the end, “Touch Me” is neither a fully realized satire nor a classically gory horror movie. In trying to do too much, the filmmakers end up with much less than they could have.