We Need to Do Something is a 2021 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Sean King O'Grady and starring Sierra McCormick, Vinessa Shaw, Lisette Alexis, Pat Healy, and Ozzy Osbourne who has a brief voice cameo.

As the children pet it without looking, it proclaims in a male voice that it's a "good boy" and bites Melissa, who rips its tongue out by the root.

Amy casts a spell on Joe, requiring Melissa to dig up the family dog in the backyard and take his tongue.

[2] Although the novella and screenplay were completed prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, director Sean King O'Grady found resonance in the story with America's response to the pandemic, saying "Without directly addressing the nightmare we are currently living through, Max created a hellish allegory that still manages to capture the collective trauma we’re all experiencing.

The website's critics consensus reads: "While We Need to Do Something can feel as unfocused as its title, it offers eerily timely genre chills, soaked in claustrophobic dread.

"[9] Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting gave the film a score of 2.5/5, writing that it "asks its audience to use their imagination for much of the horrors that barrage its characters, as its story is told solely within the confines of a single room", but stated that it "isn't interested in offering any definitive answers, only suggesting mere possibilities.

"[10] Jessica Kiang of Variety said that the film "fails to capture the actual psychological awfulness of being trapped to near your nearest and dearest, with no end in sight", and added: "When, late in the film, a phone's "Puttin' on the Ritz" ringtone sounds out, it's hard to escape the suspicion we've been Rickrolled.

Weekly magazine Chicago Reader described the actress as "captivating",[11] and IGN praised her take on the character, stating that she "brings wide eyes and a sulking snarl to teen daughter Melissa, whose internal drama is signaled by a goth wardrobe topped by a bubblegum pink wig.