Monica Castillo

Oh, I also had tons and tons of fun.

I had the benefit of seeing it with some friends, also in a movie theater that was properly dark and surround sound, so you're just enmeshed in that creepy audio soundscape that Damian McCarthy pulls together.

The writer-director, yep.

The writer-director, Damian McCarthy, who I was introduced to with his previous film, Oddity.

And he pulls a lot of what he's been working with with Oddity in his first film, Caveat,

and now this feels like another extra build-on, and it's just so rich and atmospheric and really rewards its reveals.

I agree with Jordan there.

But I want to also give a shout-out to Colm Hogan, who's the cinematographer for Hocum, who also was the cinematographer for Oddity.

The two of them really know what they're doing with the dark.

It's been a long time since I felt like,

A horror movie has really just like plunged me into darkness and it doesn't look murky or muddy or gross.

It's actually properly spooky dark.

I'm scared.

I can't see anything.

And then all of a sudden, boom, there's something that looks like Pazuzu's face in front of me and it freaks me out.

It actually really, really works.

And I think it's the combination of those two reuniting that really pulls that off.

Trauma, trauma, trauma.

I was going to say, I think there's a fair amount of guilt in here that I haven't seen as much with all of the trauma horror movies of late.

That's a good point.