Just a quick reminder to everyone that i dont do horror… this years cinema club isnt showing that really is it, but yet here i am again for a 6pm film to see together. It cant be that grim right… right…

my 6pm Wednesday showing had about 50 people in it which is good. I checked online the 7:50 & 8:30 showings were almost sold out so its doing well. Proper mix of ages as well, from late teens to 60s to see this. One couple in their 60s walked out at one point guessing it got to grim for them.

Trailers, Smashing Machine, Eddington (always so odd when yovue seen it at a preview days before) The roses ( ive seen this trailer like 800 times now) & Caught stealing

& then the film started… It was grim but oddly beautiful.

Casting a real life couple actually made the pain & trauma of it all even more real. I mean until the press for this film i didnt know this was the case, but i think for once it actually made it more believable. That they would do anything for each other & they would treat each other like that. There have been a few couples recently who just havent had that kind of level to them, so this was a brilliant choice to do this. Yes in most films its often a bad choice but not here.

Spice by the Spice Girls… fucking incredible choice. Should have seen it from that exact point exactly how it was going to end. Also my childhood is now considered retro, not sure how i feel about that.

I dont like body horror you all know that by now, if you dont hi welcome, but there were some points that were just weird & freaky & gross & made me feel sick & was rather unsettling making me not look at the screen for points. However the over all reason & beauty behind it all had a wonderful meaning about finding your person. As someone who hasnt found their person i cant relate to it, but damn it was good metaphor, but did we really need to see some of it.

The thing that made me jump the most was the rats in the celling. Not that they were dead but the fact one was alive & squeaked. That freaked me out. Nah nah nah, not for me.

Did it need the cult vibes at times? Yes for it to make sense, but also no because it just dragged it on. Also it made the “bad guy” a bad guy when actually they were just trying to open up peoples minds. I felt for them a little. But yea the cult was very much Jim Pickens in the sims. I get that is on of my most niche things ive ever typed but still for the 3 people who get it, well done. We dont actually properly see the cult but it is off putting.

Is everyone in horror films just idiots. Because why would you drink that water? I get its raining etc, but just collect the rain water falling in from that vine, dont drink from a dodgy pond. Idiots.

The ending… how are you explaining that to anyone at all. Seriously. I mean i get it. It was well collated to get to that point especially call-backs to other scenes earlier in the film, but how do you ever explain it. Im just baffled still even now writing this a couple of weeks later. I just… HOW!? HOW?! IF that happened to you how would you tell people.

I do love the taking the piss out of facebook statuses, however who actually posts a status on facebook in the 2020’s like that. Its either tagged from insta or is a meme.

I appreciate the story this film told us, but you know i dont get body horror, so i wont be watching this again. What is saw was well done & made me feel uneasy, but this just isnt for me. Go ask another horror person peoples.