Holy crap, what did he even say really? There was one funny line about Bill Nye The Science Guy before he had a cheese themed stroke on stage!
Dedrick clearly has a passion for cheese.
Dedrick's forehead lookin like a damn sweet potato
3/5
Not as scary as I was hoping it would be. I only jumped once when the Captain Clarks hand shoots through the door that leads to the bottomless pit room. That got me for some reason.
There was a couple of A24 moments. One was the mural scene, very A24. The other was the grotesque dwarf, very A24 (playing disabilities for horror).
I think Barbara should have been an african american women. I think they made her Caucasian to make the Mary and Clark arc a possibility and also when Clark scalps Barbara in the backrooms it would have been unpalatably disturbing if she was african american during that scene. I am conflicted because when it was revealed who Barbara was I was like "no balls." in my head.
Visually the movie was nice but sometimes the frame was boring! I was in the front row for the full experience and at times I was really really looking at northing. There was too much exposition in my opinion. The exposition was not typical in that it was not done by one character telling another character, but rather here it was done by narration that was a form of montage. So that was neat but due to my proximity to the screen I did not feel it was utilizing the full frame most of the time.
The visual aspects I did not like was the interlace effect on the camcorder scenes. It looked really back on the big screen as you would expect. They toned it down as the movie went on and it just became heavy film grain which was more palatable. It was for real a headache at first. I would have liked to see the laundry room in some actual detail for example.
I think if the text should have stayed on screen longer. Text is supposed to stay on screen for a length of time that an average person should be able to read it twice. Certainly it was not. Showing the text longer also would have stressed the importance thus making it more powerful and scarier.
The director to this movie is hella young which is neat but also makes any message it has less impactful because it is definitely trying to be deep at times. I think this is his first film which is cool, I hope he can make so really cool movies in the future.
Then you use the squat to push the KB off your back into the original position.
Several vignettes in my creative world that feel eerie, liminal, or cozy.