Many obvious nods to Cronenberg ( The Fly), Lynch ( Elephant Man/Eraserhead) De Palma ( Carrie) and Kubrick ( The Shining).
Maybe I've just seen it all.
Just got back from seeing it. Your references echoed my own, except I got old Peter Jackson instead of De Palma, but I totally see it's both now.
My experience went something like: awe > suspense > eye-rolling preachiness > shock > over the top hilarity. Repeat...
Carrie for the blood spraying ending
shareIt is Cronenberg worship (btw, the director Fargeat tried to sell her "Revenge" movie as Cronenbergsque), but it is not like if Cronenberg patented the body horror genre and Fargeat knows her stuff, unlike those hack horror directors of movies like "Late night with the devil" and such. In the first 1/3 of the movie the TV ad/music video editing is so distracting, that I felt detached from the characters and action, but they toned it down for the remainder and finally did a classic monster movie ending. The heavy stylization prevented serious development of characters and "the other self" theme, but I give it a bonus point for striking the right balance between comedy and drama - never taking yourself too seriously is an always appreciated attitude.
shareI kind of agree.
They could've cut about 20-30 minutes out & it would've been even more effective.
Totally agree, and with the Thread title.
I thought it was amazing for the first 45 minutes, the style of it was very impressive (even the nods to other directors was done nicely) but then it just kept doing the same thing for the middle hour or so, I nearly gave up on it, the ending was good though.
Watching it now and was just thinking the same exact thing. It just keeps beating a dead horse over and over again. WE GET IT! And the unnecessary gross-out stuff has long overstayed its welcome.
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