Missed half of the movie to fooling around with a girl so I almost missed that the blonde girl is her grandmother and this weirdly sapphic-coded movie isn't actually gay at all.

Idk it speaks to a certain despair I'm feeling in anticipation of President Trump 2.0. y'all hated this for telling the truth?

"If I don't think about it it's not real if I don't think about it it's not real..."

My read on the film's arguably tragic, devastating ending on second watch is much more hopeful, but maybe that's just my biases leaking in. After all, I made it out of the Midnight Realm. I want her to make it out too.

Update: I ed my friend Andrew Sweatman on his podcast Arthouse Garage to talk about the film alongside Schoenbrun's debut feature We're All Going to the World's Fair and you can listen to that episode here and watch it here.

Overlook Film Festival 2024

What if The Matrix but it's a sadgirl horror movie where Neo keeps being offered the red pill and chooses the blue one every time out of abject existential terror and it ends like Synecdoche, New York.

Edit: I ed my friend Andrew Sweatman on his podcast Arthouse Garage to talk about the film alongside Schoenbrun's debut feature We're All Going to the World's Fair and you can listen to that episode here and watch it here.