Love to see horror movies (and indie at that) win so hard this year

@nocturnal there's still time to see it again!

Same company being behind both is funny

They really said BRING ME MY MONEY . The amount of people memeing it , hating it , thinking it’s a glorification was the perfect storm

People don’t get this really restores a feeling

This gets even better the more I think about it. There were things I missed on first watch about real Nikki/one wish Nikki that made the film so much darker and more horrifying in retrospect.

Seeing this still sold out even Tonight or close to it is insane

Thought a24 did Backrooms ?

Exactly

Sarah joking about we paid for their heroin for a week while working with needles . Nikki buying the drinks but people hesitating for her to give cash to homeless . Bear doesn’t finish his shot .

The glare of the eyes . Gift she gives . The fact that for a period of time it did seem okay

What was wrong with the execution

When it got pointed out to me how f***ed up the s***scenes were, I was so done. I didn't really get how they were portraying the real/fake Nikki s*** at first but then it dawned on me and oh my God it's so sad.

Nikki gotta be one of the most depressing characters in cinema as of late. She didn't ask for any of that s***

this fr lol
used to sneak into r rated movies all the time

I watched Boosters first (earlier the same day)

Worst part of the movie and partially why I kinda think the supernatural/magical elements of it cap my enjoyment of it slightly. S*** got kinda ridiculous in spots and I just laughed/didn't find it scary

But obviously I have way more nice things to say about it than not and loved it overall

I think this is kind of a simplification of the movie but there are a select group of people that feel how you feel . Which I get . S*** when I saw invisible man and he was beating the s*** out of her and torturing her life it was a lot to me .

I can agree with some of your takes on the writing, but this is super cap. The lighting alone and the way it blankets people's expressions is so good. If you can't appreciate the shot of Nikki in the doorway with the only thing lit up being her eyes, you're doing too much. The DP should get a raise

I think without some of those darker laughs of “ wtf this is crazier than we thought “ the movie risk being too dark

cat sandwich , standing in one spot all day , even after killing Sarah and her being calm .

It’s kind of a balancing act because it could be triggering to women . Many women have loved it . Some have hated it and I get it .

I don’t even think a magical happy ending would solve it .

It’s dark when some subsect of audience could be like “ crazy b**** “ even if most get the movie . It’s clear who the true horror is

Sarah was dead yes but Ian still had the chance to free Sarah if he took the wish for bear seriously . He chose money instead . Sarah was going to get killed regardless. If bear didn’t go to park she would come to him . Bear if he had respected Nikki’s wishes and killed her . He would likely go to jail or prison but he would have given Nikki peace . If he had gone earlier back to store and gotten the willow and told Sarah to make the wish genuinely feels like they could all in a way find peace again . Feels like if the movie had 30 more minutes to work through some things it could get interesting .

Tertiary characters in horror movies are almost always garbage. It's why I'll never take Midsommar over Hereditary; Flo's character is literally the only good one for 2 1/2 hours and the rest are expendable. That said, I think the dimensionless character writing in Obsession works.

In this movie, all we get is Bear's perspective and he's an empty husk of a person with no internal life or meaningful outlets, so the way we see the other characters is warped/limited by his myopia. Bro is a literal black hole and the only thing he wants is a girl he doesn't even know all that well. We actually learn about these characters and how f***ed up they are from other people, like Ian (who also sucks as a person).

Honestly, they're all pretty average people with a shared dead-end job just struggling to get by, but that doesn't impact the execution of the film's themes. In fact, it actually makes them shine through more because we get drip-fed details about their lives that Bear can't give us access to (because he doesn't really know them that well, or himself for that matter).

You. Can't. Cook. The cat.