Sean Fennessey

I guess Eileen's a light sleeper.

She is a light sleeper.

I would say staring at me, not something she's interested in these days.

I think more specifically, there's something about being watched.

that is very unnerving, especially if you're being watched by someone who's dangerous and we don't really know what's happening with that person.

That's something you can experience in any walk of life.

You know, you're just walking down the street and you encounter somebody who clearly doesn't have it all together.

That's a bit of an intense feeling.

That's a scary feeling.

So, like, to me, the movie isn't... It does have some of those core horror strategies, but...

I think that that's part of what is working.

And now I've seen the movie go into the take cycle, you know, where it's like, actually, it's misogynistic.

Actually, it's this.

And I'm like, I think when a movie gets this big and this popular, it tends to refract in a lot of directions.

Before we get into any of that, I just want to...

put some of the numbers on the board for what happened this weekend because of how crazy it actually is.

So Back Rooms, which is in its first weekend of release, made $81.4 million domestic in three days.

That is the highest grossing opening weekend in A24 history.

It's almost, I think, in more than tripled Civil War.

It already outgrossed everything everywhere all at once in three days, which was, you know, kind of a landmark movie for that studio.