Chris Ryan

This film is like a real leap forward for him in terms of composition, in terms of how to pace a scene beyond just someone walking down a hallway endlessly, which I fucking love, but is like not going to be everybody's cup of tea, but to emerge on the Christmas scene and find the other characters there and the stuff of... I think stuff sinking into the sand of the carpeting is a relatively new phenomenon.

I didn't see a ton of it in the YouTube videos, so...

You know, I just thought it would have been enough for him to just be like, here is a big screen version of a found footage of my paranormal activity or whatever.

And instead, I think he... He's leveled up.

He's leveled up.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah.

I mean, there's stuff in there that's like...

It taps into a feeling of playing video games.

It taps into a feeling of certain levels of video games where it's very puzzle-oriented or the entire point is that you're lost in a maze.

But it also taps into a childlike thing where you're like... That weird experience of like you're... The amount of time it takes to get somewhere is always slower than the amount of time it takes to get back sometimes.

So you know what I mean?

Once you know the route, you're like, oh, it's not that bad.

But the first time you make a walk through the park, you're like...

did I make a wrong turn somewhere here or whatever?

And it gets at some like really innate kind of childlike wonder at these things and childlike fears too, I think.

No, it's all amygdala, as they say.

It's the smell of spices in the air.

Why aren't you listening to her?