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"elevated horror" for normies


Don't be fooled by the trailers. This is disguised as elevated horror, but is really just another generic one filled with cliches, cheap jump scares, and a predictable story.

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This movie isn't for normies. The fact it made so much money is baffling.

This is pure hipster bait.

Normies like Insidious, Smile, Scream, Halloween, A Quiet Place, The Conjuring, M3gan... not this or those A24 movies.

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Why does Hollywood keep churning out soft diluted cookie-cutter movies and sell them as "nothing like you've ever seen". If a movie is categorized "psychological horror" it has to have elements that the viewer should find disturbing but nothing in this cheap procedural elicited such response. This should be an entry to horror for elementary students.

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Absolute Crap but i wasn't that surprised because i don't think i have seen a good A24 yet. They are all the same with Anti Christian pro Satanism vibes in all of them.

A much better and creepier version of this kind of film was The Dead Center with that guy from Primer. It only has a 5.8 but that goes to show you can't trust ratings because there are too many plebs out there having too much influence

And i didn't actually know Nic Cage was in it until he started getting too much screen time and was given licence for his over acting. Less would have been more

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Actually Neon acquired it.

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