jeremy stephens

This wasn't a movie so much a movie as it was a collection of bad camera shots of the floor, cieling and walls. I had no idea anything could be this bad. Here's a breakdown of what this 100 minute long movie entails: 1. Pointless shots of walls, the floor or the cieling- 70 minutes 2. Brief inaudible, or barely audible dialogue- 5 minutes 3. Lame shots of things like windows or other fixtures moving or disappearing: 10 minutes. 4. Darkness- 10 minutes 5. Actual plot or action: 5 minutes. This movie is artsy garbage that is designed to make you think about what is going on but it fails in that regard since there is little to go on and what the viewer has available to consider isn't very interesting. If they were to make a novelization of this film, it would be two paragraphs at best.

I'm going to avoid spoilers and just give my opinion. I really thought this was going to be a decent movie until about the half-way point when it started to get incredibly stupid. The premise was good, the acting wasn't bad and the building up of suspense was great and then the usual artsy BS that studio A24 is known for suddenly makes an unwanted appearance. The second half of the movie seemed more like it was going out of its way to be cringy (which it succeeds at but not in a good way, but rather more like an oh-my-god-why-did-pay-to-watch-this sort of way), and much like Studio A24's most famous gem, Hereditary, the ending was completely goofy and seemed like it was thrown together by a second year film student facing a time crunch.