This Indie Horror Movie is a Grade A Mindf*ck (We're All Going to the World's Fair)
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- In this installment, I'll be talking about a movie called We're All Going to the World's Fair, which premiered at Sundance last year. It is the directorial debut of Jane Schoenbrun, and I would say it is very impressive for her first feature length film. Schoenbrun referred to this project as an “emo horror movie,” and I think that’s an apt description.
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I think this movie did a very good Job at portraying unsupervised internet use by young people. Watching Creepy/Weird videos on youtube, chatting with strangers, going down Rabbitholes, taking part in Challanges, it was all eerily realistic. I loved the unique vibe of the Movie the only thing that bothered me was the anticlimactic endig.
That ending pissed me off
It can be seen as anticlimactic, but if you read it as two internet "friends" finally meeting face to face only to find they have absolutely nothing in common with each other, it starts to frame some of the threads in the film in a better, sadder light.
@@HEAVYHEARTSMUSIC But we only have his word that they met up IRL. Is he telling the truth?
@@severianconciliator1862 I think he was. Jane does show us some suggestive scenes with him, namely the one on the toilet, but I feel that's just to serve the tension and uncertainty with him, not to suggest anything overtly nefarious. Which is also why I'm sure many were upset with the ending. The shot of him holding his hand over the screen is, if nothing else, symbolic of the purity of his intentions.
I think the spareness of the plot is the point. Its the everyday horrors: suburban sterility, loneliness, isolation, madness, suicide. So common are these they are rendered invisible, uneventful. "I swear someday soon I am just going to disappear and you wont have any idea what happened to me."
I feel like the horror of this movie is incredibly specific. A lot of people claim to not find it scary but I honestly was on edge for the entire time. The horror is not jump scares, it's existential dread but specifically the kind of dread that comes from unhealthy use of the internet. the feeling of being observed by an unknown other. it's the kind of horror you could only recognize if you've experienced it.
I would actually disagree with your interpretation of Casey and her videos. To her it wasn’t a fiction at all, she got completely absorbed to the point where it was real for her, which is why when JLB told her it was all a game she was shocked and destabilized because she realized everything she was doing was all her and not supernatural. She lashed out on JLB because she was embarrassed with herself that she would believe and fall for what was actually a game.😶🌫️🤨
This is exactly what I was thinking.
It is definitely open to interpretation!
She did seem very offended and tried to back up very quickly. She asked "how much longer she had" but was met with disappointment
And about ambiguity in the movie, the epilogue JLB narrates at the end could just be him role-playing as he did throughout the movie since he couldn't cope with being cut off so abruptly. So you have 4 main interpretations about what happened at the end (Was Casey role-playing ? Did JLB ever meet Casey again ?)
@@Ad-ho7hcto me the dad not hearing the stomping is proof she killed him and it was real
When Casey says “someday soon, I’m going to disappear and you won’t have any idea what happened to me” it really reflects the films ending. We get no more clips of Casey or any concrete answers of her fate. Whilst this quote sounds incredibly ominous, it also rings true for any content creator who gets bored, finds other interest and stops making videos. The viewers (us) can only imagine what they’re (content creator) is doing and I believe that is what JLB is doing ( but maybe I’m totally wrong)
My theory is that Casey used the Challange as a way to express herself and cope with her probelms. From what we see in the Movie her homelife doesnt seem to be the best, so she uses the internet as an escape. The Phrase: "Some day I'm going to disappear and you're not ever going to know what happened to me." refers to her ending her Internet presence. People on the internet can just dissapear and people often assume that the person is dead. I think The story that JLP tells in the end, is just a way for him to make sense of the uncertainty of what happened to her.
There’s no way the dad didn’t hear the stomping.
@@nrg6245 he might have been out at work, Casey says he has multiple jobs
@@awfulpancakes If both were during the day I would agree but the stomping was at night. It seems weird to show him get mad at the music playing at night but not the stomping. Also why show the gun? These two scenes pair up and can imply she killed him and that's why she was able to make as much noise as she wanted. But I guess they're not really that important and kinda a oversight that just annoying to me, since it seems like most reviewers I've watch don't seem to care about that detail. I wish they would of left the dad completely out if he's always working except that one day. At the end of the day I agree with most of what he's saying except since I thought it was implied that she killed her dad it wasn't just her making videos and playing the game by a weird mixture of both her sinking deeper into madness while playing the game.
@@StoveToTheFace oh damn wait i completely forgot about the gun. you have a point. i think generally it's still up to interpretation but i can see it a lot more now
Agree with your interpretation of Casey saying she will disappear and of why JLP tells this clearly ambiguous story at the end .
the true horror, to me, was the overwhelming loneliness. and I think if you're familiar with it, this film will definitely get under your skin
Hello Conceptualization
The true horror was the friends we made along the way!
Especially the theme song really helped start it out
A theory I have is that JLB was a parent. We see him conduct his messages in a room with small trophies (Little League?) and thin colorful books (children’s books?). Maybe he had a child who passed away or disappeared from the World’s Fair Challenge. He investigated the WF himself and became addicted despite the tragedy involved with it. He probably sees Casey as a replacement for his own lost child. Part of him is trying to push her away from the WFC while another part of him is enabling her participation.
this is what I thought too, he comes across so much like a pedo that it's almost too obvious, I saw it as a well intentioned yet misguided vaguely creepy paternalistic thing, him seeking out the protagonist. His house is so big and empty too, like a family now broken by loss once lived there
@@dickdingus775 Yep, there's a lot that's not said about him overtly and it's likely that it's for the best.
I love that interpretation, you're super perceptive!
Looking back, I really appreciate your outlook - it really gives some extra punch to his... disconcerting attitude. It especially makes the ending monologue leave a pit in my stomach even more:- that upsetting self-congratulatory and overly familiar tone. I feel like he wanted to make sure he was seen as both totally right AND admired for it, like an unhealthy dad who's been sucked in by the idea of becoming The Favorite Parent.
I think thats a pretty plausible theory, in one frame you can see that someone else lives with JLP, maybe his Wife? Maybe the JLP persona is that of his child and he got sucked into the game trying to understand what he lost his child to.
@@IggiPiggi3000 most likely his wife.. for most of his scenes he’s in his kids room at night it wouldn’t make sense if the kid was still alive cuz he’d obviously be sleeping in his room if that were the case
I felt this movie did a good job of interpreting the extent and imagination of young teens who spend too much time and energy believing fads and trends online as a form of escapism. Casey is bored and lonely in a small town, and enphatuates with the World's Fair challenge. Letting herself believe she is "changing" to fulfill a sense of belonging to some supernatural phenomenon. Then comes JLB, an old lonely man who seems to be grooming and feeding Casey's imagination to get closer to her on a personal level. This movie was scary in how an old man can pry himself into a teenager's life online and develop a personal relationship. It's far too similar to the type of relationship on to catch a predator. The music score was good, and the build on the creepy ambiance was good, but it is not a movie I would watch again.
infatuates*
At first I thought JLB was a creepy groomer type, but by the mid-end of the movie I wasn't so sure. Their relationship definitely seems to start off on that kind of foot, but then it changes a bit. He just seems like a weird and lonely guy who maybe thought he went too far with the 'game' they were playing. It's hard to say.
Nah he definitely wasn't a creepy groomer, even though they made it ambiguous (intentionally), we see that he's a man who lives in a big house, several bedrooms, possible wife and family, who tries to stop Casey from going to the worlds fair.
Ik he says it's not real, but I believe in a sense that for some people it was. He seen how far she took it and was like okay no, it's a joke, it's a Game, hoping she would stop and not go to the worlds fair.
Then at the end when he recounts meeting up with her, and she eventually tells him 'yknow I did go, but I came back, I felt a pull ' and he's overjoyed bc he then knew that he didn't let her down, he did help her.
I saw this one in the theater about a month ago and I can say that while not everyone will be talking about it in ten years, those who did see it will be
Who knows this might become a cult classic in the next decade
For me, the scariest thing about this movie was the lost of control over yourself, how you feel you're loosing yourself slowly. Since I was a kid I was terrified about posesions and that type of movies bc of that. This movie felt so realistic with a slightly supernatural touch, by the end I doubted about some elements that I thought they were supernatural, but maybe it was just a way to portray a lost vulnerable girl on the internet and how he looses herself into it. I don't really know for sure. Also, the scene about the video of Casey sleeping on the bed, how she moves her arm and grins... My blood just got frozen. Some scenes are unconventionally long I think it's fair to say, but that just got me over the edge the entire time. They got me just were they wanted and then boom. You wasn't expecting that.This one has some sort of sparkle that even A24 horror movies doesn't have, and with very low budget.
I watched this in a call with Alex of AI Builds. We both expected to enjoy it because of its inspiration from what I call horror netafiction (internet metafiction, all that stuff from unfiction to creepypasta, etc etc), but we were surprised just how much respect it showed to this very specific, niche, esoteric subgenre. I was even surprised by the fanservice of Evan Santiago’s and May Leitz’s cameos. As someone who grew up with and continues to study these special internet-based horror projects, urban legends, and media phenomena, this movie did so much to legitimize it in a “critic-friendly” art form as well as raise genuinely important questions about our connection to these works, especially in youth
Is there any other film that inspires from horror internet metafiction ? I loved this film. I loved the creepypasta feels of this.
I got explicit rape/murder vibes from the lines "Some day I'm going to disappear and you're not ever going to know what happened to me" and the final line of dialogue, delivered with a rehearsed manner "...And then we went home" , the latter being especially poignant given the unlikeliness of our main character, who's been our consistent narrator thus far, not wanting to sign off on her own story.
Yeah, I expected an outright horror on starting this one, and my mind did wander occasionally, but I can understand the aesthetic appeal of building an uneasy, dreamlike atmosphere through long takes and static scenes. Some films really suit it (2001: A Space Odyssey, Under The Skin, Suspiria, Mulholland Drive, etc).
As a debut, I think most of us would be proud to have produced something of that quality, and I'll no doubt listen to the soundtrack going forward (If you're partial to a bit of dreampop or folk-rock you'll probably enjoy it - it reminds me of The Pastels soundtrack for The Last Great Wilderness {2002}, itself an indie film with a dream-like, innocent quality at times).
In all honesty I'm not sure I'd re-watch it, but I'll definitely keep an eye out for Jane Schoenbrun's next movie offering.
I don’t get that at all
To me the ending just proves that there’s no real explanation but I WILL SAY THIS. I think the only proof we have of it being real is that when Casey is stomping on the ground so much and her dad doesn’t say a word when he was so mad when he heard her playing a video before, I think that is proof that it’s real. She had to had killed him by then. That’s the only way I interpret that part and why they even left in the part of her dad yelling. I get the whole isolation thing or loneliness but I’m looking for the real meaning of the movie. No way she didn’t kill her dad and I think she really killed herself and that JLB monologue at the end is him trying to convince himself bc he’s trapped in the game as well.
I don't think she killed her dad. The reason he didn't yell at her may have been that he was at work and comes home very late.
@@flabbajabba9527 that’s up to interpretation
Caught this at a 2:30 pm one day showing in Philly so the opener about these films being risks got a good nod out of me. Speaking of openers, the thing that stuck with me the most was Casey showing us what the digital age’s primping and preening looks like for artists who put their ‘self’ at the forefront of their art. She practices her intro a few times, something that seems so innocuous given that it’s only a few words but is obviously pretty important to her. She changes the lights and adds some character to it with her stuffed animal all the while looking around her room like she’s lost in deep thought that amounts to her changing very little about her initial setup. It reminds me a lot of the vlog style videos that Kayla would do in Eight Grade with the gucci sign off and everything. The only difference is that this didn’t garner the same reaction from me. Kayla’s attempts at making her videos made me feel some slight second hand embarrassment whereas Casey’s attempts made me feel…self conscious? A little TOO understood even?
The opening scene does a great job at capturing an artist’s desire to be outlandishly creative or even charmingly ‘human’ by showing us what the artist experiences in the creation of their art. Those silent moments where the recording keeps rolling after misspeaking and you catch yourself in your own spectacle. The rushed cleaning of whatever can be seen by the audience. The hesitance to even start recording again.
The video she watches with all the flashing lights reminds me of all the times I’ve cycled through the same three filters to see which one looks best for a snapchat I’m only sending to a couple people. It’s all so inconsequential and feels so artificial sometimes that I can’t help wondering “Am I the only one who does this?”
This movie didn’t click with the friend who saw it with me and I wonder if that’s due to the fact that online perfection isn’t as ingrained in men early on as it is with women or that he just hasn’t experienced the clash between artistic expression, the self, and the appeal to the spectacle *yet*. I feel like the idea of not caring or “disappearing” whenever you see fit is becoming more and more unattainable as having a presence online becomes more valuable in the eyes of the artist AND the consumer.
Great video, thanks for sharing your thoughts and opening up this conversation :)))
I loved this movie. Thanks HBO for having it. I came for the prospect of strange horror and stayed for the strangely intimate connections and beautiful music by Alex G. I grew up in the same time the director sets this piece. I graduated in 1999 and this very much sums up that time of niche internet. I originally found this channel for the Petscop Investigations (which I thoroughly enjoyed) and will be staying around for the like minded analysis. Thanks Dave!
Honestly it's wild. It's refreshing and the lack of closure fits so well I think. With how much detail he gave but ends it with "and then we went home" I thought maybe he met with her and he killed her. But then I thought about it, and maybe he never met with her to begin with. Could just be him making a distressful situation apart of his world in a more satisfying way. Who knows, all I know is that this movie really made me think. How it kept me guessing and in the end didn't go supernatural or overt.
There’s no way she didn’t kill her dad when he didn’t hear her stomping. She def killed her dad and he was lying at the end to cope.
Saw this recently and loved it. Everything about it was so captivating to me. The performances, the reality of it, the way it handles the subject of online expression, the subtle details, the music. Loved it all.
I'm with you on your interpretation of the ending. It really came across as someone, with nothing else to ground themselves for perspective writing an unrealistic "happy ending" to the story. Or trying to create some satisfying conclusion that most people would expect from the film. I don't want to go into detail, but looking at the journey Casey takes through this film and what we learn about her, her ending was likely less than "happy" which speaks to the insight the film provides into a very real and very lonely generation of young people.
Really enjoyed it and can't wait to add the OST to my work playlist.
Also, new subscriber. Awesome content :)
My take: it was a portrait of two neurodivergent people trying to connect with each other.
That's an interesting perspective. Albeit I think it still needs to be stated that he is a middle-aged man and she is a child.
@@gFamWeb Absolutely. What I admired about this movie was it’s ambiguity. Let me give an example. The man has a large, opulent house but keeps his computer room very simple, even childlike. There are two interpretations (at least) for this.
1. The man is neurodivergent. The parts of his house that are likely to have guests look like a stylish adult’s house. His computer room is kept simple and is a refuge from overstimulation and needing to mask.
2. He makes his computer room look like a child’s to set potential grooming targets at ease.
The second is a legitimate reading of the film. And I find it hard not to see Michael Rogers as harmless because he was such an effective bad guy in Beyond the Black Rainbow (great film btw.) However, the man is very socially awkward, so if he’s trying to groom her, he’s not very experienced at it. I also think that a predator would want to keep things more cheerful (“Wow, I like that too.”) If he really had sinister intentions toward her, he would encourage her to be more engaged and excited rather than frightened or cautious.
But that’s all just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Overall your analysis seems sound. One thing to add: The Title. It's really important to the meaning of the movie, IMO. The Worlds Fairs, be they those at the start of the 20th century or the game played by the protagonist, are exhibitions. The former was of showcasing the great new technology at the time and indeed--as you say--they were a bit utopian in mindset. Yet instead, the 20th Century saw 2 World Wars and many other horrors. The technology of the time didn't save us writ large--though it was used to kill people in political conflicts. In the film, people are exhibiting themselves in videos online. On the surface it is seemingly a way to connect, but of course a much larger truth of the digital age is the falseness of this promise. While we have a vast array of options to communicate in real time the world over, we're more alienated than ever. So to the Casey, who is never seen with anyone else--all shots are of her alone. The internet is used to bully others, sex traffic, spy on people in their homes, etc. The lynchpin between the technology at the turn of the 20th century and now is the false promise to save us from ourselves. To me, the title is a euphemistic way of saying that we're all going to hell and it points the finger at our technology.
Love your explanation here. While I was watching the movie the title stuck in my mind and I kept thinking, "we're all going to hell" being the true title. We want connection as a species but technology definitely creates a paradoxical disconnect. Yes, we should be able to connect more easily, but our desire for things that are missing in our physical lives isn't enough to grant us those connections. The distance between people is there, and even if you connect with someone, there's no guarantee it'll last, is healthy or that it's real. I'm not a very analytical person, I try but videos like these and comments like these bring me a lot of enjoyment as I miss a lot and occasionally help me learn.
hell yeah, I just went on my break at work & was looking for something to watch. can't wait!!
Your spooky music always gets me in just the right mood, David Stockdale.
Oh, the notification bell did it`s job this time, I`m bamboozled once again...
yay youtube is functioning
I gotta follow you! This video was awesome. Loved the film. I’ve been listening to the soundtrack nonstop. Perfect Fall viewing.
I thought your analysis was pretty spot on. It seems like there are many out there who unfortunately aren't engaging with this movie's many layers, so this was refreshing to watch!
just watched this.. i gave it 3.5/5 ⭐ 3/5 🤍
spoiler alert: i think casey is really experiencing serious mental health issues.. because in one scene when she was watching a video in her room, her "dad" shouted to her to turn off the video meanwhile in further scene when she was stomping the floor, her "dad" didn't show up (although at this day she might be alone in the house who knows but the director didn't put quite a long "pause" after that for no reason i feel like) telling us that she actually killed her dad.
but then again it's open to interpretation.
i figured she killed herself (+ dad probably) after we last saw her. once she has nothing left. we would assume the gun foreshadowing wasnt for nothing. JLB's monologue is obviously BS. But I like your thought - she couldve killed dad within the movie, and it would add to the shock in her finding out the game was fake, and she had to face that it was "all her" that did it. interesting take dude!
I would have literally never thought of this
@@andypehrson9316that’s how I interpreted the movie! I hate it wasn’t explained what happened man I hate that
Honestly I think I just watched a movie about a groomer.
💯
I loved this movie, partly bc it reminded me so much of how it felt to be a lonely teenager though thankfully I came of age before the internet so all my teen angst is lost to time. But this film very acutely depicts the very real loneliness of being a teen girl living in an isolated place.
My first thought about the ending was that JLB did meet up with Casey, that maybe he had taken advantage of her and even killed her hence the foreshadowing of "I will disappear and you wont know what happened to me" and now he is speaking for her, or maybe he is just speaking to his own notes for his personal enjoyment as he seemed to be grooming her the whole time, providing the care an concern she was lacking from her father. Maybe he even created the worlds fair challenge as a means to connect and communicate with young women to prey on? I personally loved this movie and the message it was trying to portray of loneliness especially in teens and the affect of getting sucked into your own world with dark forces of the internet at play.
I’m not gonna lie I just watched this movie and I can’t appreciate what it’s going for cause I don’t feel like it’s going for nothing, I just feel like I followed a weirdo around for an hour and a half with no story
Sounds like an interesting movie, I'm gonna check it out
Yes! I saw this browsing Prime and thought it looked right up my alley, but the middling reviews kind of put me off. I’m definitely watching now!
YES UR LIKE THE PERFECT PERSON TO TALK ABOUT THIS FILM!!!
GREAT interpretaion of the ambiguity of the ending. I didn't believe his version of what happened to Casey either. His version would meet his own psychological needs .
What is the intro music at the very beginning of this video? ❤️
To my surprise, I ended up enjoying this movie (I started it two times prior and gave up on it before actually finishing it). I feel like Casey is far smarter than viewers give her credit, for example in one of her first two videos you hear her dad yelling at her because she is up recording at 3AM. The later scenes she does make a lot of loud noises but without ticking off her dad, which for me implies she isn't recording when her dad is home and is manipulating the scenes to make it look like night.
You also have the tarot card scene later where she is talking to the viewer but is speaking to JLB. JLB is the one taking this game far more seriously while Casey is method acting her debut role.
Really enjoyed this movie…watched earlier tonight. I think your take is on point.
Nicely done
hands down best movie i've ever watched
Honestly, I feel like Casey saying "that's not even my real name" was more a split-second choice to try and throw JLB off her scent. Trying to make him believe he knows less about her than he does, so that he'll just not look for her.
I used to side with Rotten Tomatoes critics. Not anymore. I trust the audience.
From the 1st scene I sat up and leaned in to this.. an exciting razor walk between exquisitely subtle long takes of mounting dread.. and fear the director might drop the ball - and they never did.. very complex tension and ambiguity.. I was often scanning behind her to find a lurking silhouette .. really loved this film. Brilliantly understated and knowledgeable of it's subject matter. BRAVO
I'm not too sure of what happened in the end. The guy speaking in the end could be a lie to convince himself nothing bad happened. He is seen scripting his words constantly, talk to himself, he is a confusing character. Casey never scripted anything, at least not that I notice, which makes me think that maybe hers were genuine thoughts that she felt comfortable saying with the World's Fair justification. I'm not saying that there's actually anything paranormal obviously, but maybe her videos weren't so healthy of an expression. But yeah it's all very ambiguous so I'm not really sure what all of this means, but I really liked it.
Why does everyone assume people who didn’t enjoy this movie just “didn’t get it” damn people are so pretentious.
Hmm. I didn't say that.
@@NightmareMasterclass talking about the commentary on the movie as a whole. I enjoyed your video. Wasn’t an attack sorry if it was framed that way!
Ah, no worries. Sorry, I misinterpreted what you were saying.
sorry you didnt get it bro :(
i just watched an ad 4 this movie a couple weeks ago i think i should give it a watch
I actually really enjoyed it whenever it hit HBO.
I'm genuinely so happy that Dave Grohl saw this movie and liked it :D
This is honestly pretty smart my man
Loved it
its also very much about gender dysphoria
not saying youre wrong, but can you explain what you mean?
@@kipjustice ill get back to u on my next rewatch so as to be. yk clear and shit
@colinhedberg8212 can you explain 😭 just watched it today and really liked it, didn't notice that angle and would love to hear your interpretation of it!
Nope
@@eggwithptsd1832 spoilers: i didn't pick up on that at first either, even with myself being trans + experiencing dysphoria, but the director themself has stated that interpretation as intended or at least her own gender dysphoria being an important factor in creating the story yes. (check out her & anna cobb's q&a video with Film Independent.) i can especially see this through the themes of growing up out of childhood, but specifically casey's own struggles with it. she's incredibly isolated from other people, loneliness is an obvious theme in the movie of course but such a common thing with trans kids/teens is the unique isolation that is often experienced, and the feeling of being raised by the internet especially as it seems she lives in a sparsely populated area with an unsupportive single father as the only other offline person she interacts with on screen. she focuses a bit on how others see her (worrying about her camera setup in the beginning). more concerningly she feels a disconnect with her own body (the dissociation or "weird feeling" she details) and is horrified when more she is finally more viscerally confronted with these changes happening (her destruction of Po; very important to note this is a childhood comfort object which in itself makes this a metaphor for leaving childhood, him and the glow-in-the-dark decorations and paint protected her from her fear of the dark) and laments about "turning into a different person/someone she doesn't recognize" and "not having control" of her own body. the world's fair challenge is all about this change, symptoms that you can't control and may differ from person to person. i don't think this is a 1:1 metaphor in the movie obviously, but this seems pretty reasonable to compare to not only becoming an adult in general but more specifically physical puberty: forced changes that can indeed feel horrifying and out of control to a trans kid who is trying their best to understand who they are, all the while their own body starting to feel like it no longer belongs to them. i truly don't believe the world's fair challenge had any real supernatural happenings related to it, but that with nowhere and no one else to go to, casey got very into this escapist roleplay and used it to vent out and process her confusing and scary feelings, whether or not she was aware of that.
This was a horrible movie,
Truly bad.
I didn't really get this movie or why it was even considered a horror film? I mean it was weird, and I know it was a take on internet creepy pastas but did it even work? I know creepy pastas don't really work either but in horror films they usually do for the sake of horror. Sorry I'm not trying to be a hater just genuinely asking. I probably just didn't get it. I liked the idea behind the movie at least.
Didn’t enjoy this movie, wasn’t what I expected. I haven’t seen anything this bad since the Blair witch project
Both you and the movie are very confusing. I'm confused. I hated that movie. God i really hated it.
we live in confusing times, friend...
This movie was AWFUL
This movie was god awful
I thought I missed something. But then I read where the director called the movie “infinitely deep”. It isn’t just vapid. It is a mirage.
True. Too much left for interpretation but honestly she definitely did kill her dad
For me it was just meh! 🤨
GRADE A MINDFUK ? it is about a creepy old dude who wants to hang with a disturbed child, it was the most horrible movie i saw in 2022 and i saw GRIMM CUTTY, this wins the most horrible movie i saw all year, shame, i saw GLORIOUS yesterday and it was so good, seems this one was payment for my happiness yesterday.
You feel strongly about this. Lol
@@NightmareMasterclass sadly yes, i had this on my backlog for so so so long and it was dissappointing, it happens, i am not saying the movie is crap, it just was not what i expected at all, and the praise it gets is kinda over the top.
"it is about a creepy old dude who wants to hang with a disturbed child"
I had a hard time understanding the movie, too. But I don't think it was about this lol.
I just watched it as part of my 31 days of Horror. The movie is B O R I N G! I can see why it has such a low audience score. It did start off pretty interesting, but it went nowhere.
This is by far one of the worst movies I have ever watched. Lead actress was great but that's about it. Writing sucks, storyline is boring on another level, so much is left unexplained, and they somehow try to normalize a grown man reaching out to a teenage girl that he doesn't know because he is concerned about the game she is playing online..... This is extremely cringe and uncomfortable to watch. The ending is horrible. No background on any of the characters at all, and so much is left unexplained. Movie is so uneventful that it gets painful to watch. Finally made it to the end in hopes of finishing up strong, but nope. Would never recommend.
Just because a movie depicts something doesn't mean there is a concerted attempt to "normalize" the thing being depicted.
Random old guys reaching out to kids online is definitely creepy, but if his reason for reaching out was to prevent a potential suicide then it may not be as bad as it initially seems in the movie. I'm a bit conflicted on whether or not he was a predator because the movie doesn't really lean into either side too much IMO.
The movie sucked
L+cry about it
@@idek_2164 you’re trying so hard to be unique
@@idek_2164 movie sucked
There was talent behind this, but it was to see it diluted by Creepypasta and RUclips.
Hope the writer and director picks up a book.
i think that's the point, it's about an online role-play, like a creepy pasta. That doesn't make it bad its just a different type of horror movie.
Couldn’t finish the movie, it was so uninteresting. I’m 62 and I think that has a lot to do with my dislike of it.
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This is what happens when the government shuts things down because of the wu Han virus and you lose touch with reality. There are people who were lonely and outcasts before the wu Han virus, they got worse because of it. Not an eerie or scary movie at all
You’re as dumb as they come man
I just watch this last night and was very disappointed. I wanted to like this film so much and it was just predictable and disappointing. I know gen Z is developmentally way behind where us gen xers were at the same age and maybe that's part of the problem. I could see this movie being very scary to an eight or nine year old but of course 16 is the new 8. Visually it was very well done and although I believe I understand the ending I'm not going to say it here lest I spoil it for another Zoomer who may be terrified by someone ripping their teddy bear apart.