Jordan Cruciola

You had no other creative problem solving.

And then he turns around and he's having a conversation with probably the most one-dimensionally nice guy in the entire movie and hurts him in a way that is so calculated and shocking as it happens.

You're like, this is...

a horrible person we're dealing with and yet the ways the moments where you can feel him being moved like when the old man in the lobby is being kind of terrorizing the kids with an old spooky story he's like hey go find your parents leave the kids alone you can feel he even has limits even in moments where it feels like a limit should stop his own personal misanthropy it doesn't

I thought that was really well handled.

I mean, the amount of queer people I've talked to about werewolf transformation and them feeling so connected to werewolf stories through the notion of like the beast within and this terrible monstrosity that they have to hide and repress until it comes roaring out.

Like, absolutely.

Like people just like now we're at an era now where we can have a super cut of Jamie Lee Curtis saying trauma, trauma, trauma, trauma, trauma, trauma, trauma.

It was always there.

And it's interesting.

The notion of way, like when the discourse finally catches something that's always been there and then kind of starts reacting to it, like it's new in the way that the way get out exploded horror and the consciousness in a way that

where the conversation that it took on became very mass market, but the conversation was about things that had always been happening, but it made a lot of people feel like they were discovering this thing that had just been invented for horror for them, so now they could finally like it in a way they couldn't before.

Do we feel like this movie is meeting the moment of where we want to feel in darkness, or do we want to be farther from darkness?

Because I feel like that was the thing about the trauma movies.

The trauma wave, that started when we're all very upset.

Like the end of the teens going into 20.

And it's like, oh, yeah, it's as big and bad and bleak as we thought it was.

And now we're like, yeah, now it's nihilism.

I think it's interesting how we process the language around therapy and therapy speak in those things where it's like end woke and that kind of stuff.

And there's a sort of backlash to sincerity and emotion.