Hannah Elliott

This film looked wonderfully suspenseful and mysterious as well as being nostalgic and magical with the music and costumes, but I was quite disappointed. It started out with a lot of potential and I was excited to see how it developed. But after about the first half of the movie, it turned into a messy attempt trying to make the movie more in the horror genre. The random zombie men that began showing up made zero sense and were only there to add more of a horror feel to the movie. Then the twist at the end felt like it was only there to be a twist and for no other reason. It made you feel no sympathy for the character and more sympathy for the men who had abused her. I thought at the beginning it was a great depiction of the disgusting misogyny in the show business in the sixties. I was expecting a story where justice was brought to the man who had hurt Sandy most, but in the end, although he did get some form of punishment, it ended up painting to woman who was supposed to be the innocent victim as the villain who was just as bad if not worse than the men. I think that possibly if Sandy would have felt remorse for what she had done it would have been different, but she didn’t and she ended up attempting to murder two innocent people. On top of that in the end when Sandy did end up feeling bad was completely unrealistic. Like there is absolutely no way that this woman sat for for like 60 years knowing what she had done and only felt remorse when some random girl hugged her. And finally, Ellie still looked up to Sandy as a role model even after she had attempted to murder her. They tried to turn it around so you felt bad for Sandy, but it didn’t really work and it almost seemed like they were trying to justify murder. So, although the movie was okay, I had higher expectations for it.