I know that so many writers and directors want to be creative with the movie they are working in but omg, this movie was difficult for me to ended because the idea seems original but the execution wasn´t the best. See the story is about a curse but is not the typical one you received if you steal something from a sanctuary or a curse place no, the premise here is that the curse is pass from one person to another by having sex, is like some nasty supernatural STD, for real, TF!!!. I accept that is something different, unique, maybe creative but if you are going to give me that also give me a really fuck up curse and I say that because it is presented as a creature that can take the form of any person, the cursed person can´t trust no one because will never know if it is a real person or the creature. Something that caught my attention is the way the thing hunt is weird, just walk, literately only can reach you walking, don't matter if it take 5 days to finally get where you are, at the end arrived where the person is, and the only thing you have to do is keep moving, run far, far, far away or find someone to have sex with and bye curse and this part is the only thing that I think is the real curse, you basically have to sacrifice someone in order to survive, kinda very dark look.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3235888/
- Platform: AppleTV+
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I think that every director show the start of their movie as they want, but sometimes give all the information at the first half of the movie is like boring because don´t make think in the problem neither a solution because give everything at the beginning and is an idea that I respect but don´t support and let me tell you why I said this, at first the present the protagonist of this story Jay in a date with Hugh, they are in a movie theater but Hugh decided to leave the place, took Jay to a beach or something like and they end having sex in his car but suddenly he used chloroform to make her sleep and tie her to a chair and when she woke up, she find out that she is in underwear, tied in a chair inside of an creepy old building and he proceed to explain to her that he only accept to have a date with to passed her the cursed know she is the one that has to live with the creature following her and can´t die because if she does they will return to him, since that moment she observes that someone is following, at least he left her in her house but cursed. That´s what i mean the movie since the beginning give you everything you couldn´t make any investigation just accept what is happening and now watch how she save herself. Sometimes I do believe that the directors can´t trust their audience is so dumb that they believe giving all the information is better for us but in my case I like to think, scarves, search and work to know what is happening and find a solution.
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Something that I do notice is the movie focus obviously in Jay and her curse but also in the people that is around that is only her sister and her friends, you never saw her parents or any parent in this movie, is like they all are orphans, you see that they live in a typical american house but never even feel a parental presence is only them, is confusing as many other things that happens in this movie and I am going to give you examples, it seems that the movie never confirm the period when this is supposed to take place and why? because certain things get mixed like in one minute you see kids with modern stuff and the next they're watching old movies on vintage TV's also they look like they stepped out of different decades too, some dressed like they're from the 50s while others wear modern clothes and you can see suburban Detroit vibes with old cars mixed with futuristic gadgets that dont even exist which makes you wonder if this is some alternate reality or just messy filmmaking, well I though maybe the director do it intentionally to create a confusing environment so you can feel everything more dreamlike and unreal, I'm not mad for this ideas only think that the movie never grounded about those aspects.
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I really don´t understand the way the director want to present a horror movie but with a slow creature, hahaha and I mention this because the director David Mitchell wanted to keeps things tense but in a strange way with slow pacing that kinda kills the energy instead of building it up, is obvious that he was more interesting in create an atmosphere than actually scare people with traditional horror tricks, for him that was not the point of this movie, the idea is to create that psychological horror making the protagonist live with anxiety thinking when the creature will finally get her and who would look like in that moment because remember that it can take the appearance of your loved ones. In some way the whole look tries hard to be artistic with wide shots and careful framing but sometimes feels pretentious other than scary, like the director is showing off film school skills instead of focusing on making audiences jump. I respect every people works, but I don't know this movie is just weird, is like a puzzle that leaves mores questions that answers.
Well the end of this story as many others is uncertain without knowing if Jay get rid of the curse, theres also different theories about this movie, the entity its about sexual abuse trauma with the creeping thing representing psychological scars following victims, another theory is about STDs which sounds dumb since nobody can avoid a STD by hooking up with someone else or maybe that is about how growing up and losing innocence brings you closer to realizing death is inevitable, I don´t know if any of these theories are true or were used as inspiration for the director but make you think about the possibility that in fact it could be a message from the director to new generations about taking care about themselves, their body, their future, family and friends, that you can´t trust in someone that you just met a couple of days ago and that bad things can follow you but you are the only one that can escape and beat them. Well at first sight it doesn´t look like any inspirational movie looks more like an artistic exercise because you won´t see blood, jump scares, creepy house so don´t expect a traditional horror thrill it is just a passionate work of a director that wants to show that horror can be a slow hunter with patience and decided to kill you. At the end I can say that even though for me is a weird movie, it is decent, deliver something that maybe sticks with you and if you don´t care a slow no bloody psychological movie well this is for you, despite not been one of those that makes you think and discover whats going to happen next I really enjoy this movie.
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