Stephen Thompson

And I think it's really using that in such strong ways.

No matter how much it's intending to be commenting on it, it is to me unmistakable.

I will say I yearned for a smaller screen.

Mm.

First of all, it is very interior.

And I think the smaller a screen you watch it on it, the more interior it will feel and the more unsettling it will feel.

I am also a person who gets motion sickness from shaky cam.

I almost had to walk out of Blair Witch Project all the many years ago when I saw it in theaters like everybody else.

Not because it was too scary, but because I wanted to vomit.

Right.

And this film does, if you are somebody who is very sensitive to that, it's worth being warned that it has a bunch of shaky cam stuff.

It opens with enough shaky cam stuff where I was fully sitting there thinking, can I gut this entire movie out?

Or am I going to have to go get a popcorn bucket?

To hold my back room's vomit.

So, you know, that's a me thing.

That's not most people.

But I did find, like, as I was thinking about it, I'm like, man, I think this would be really, even maybe even more powerful, like, on headphones watching on a laptop.

I think occasionally taking the film out of those back rooms and into the real world helped situate how unsettling those worlds were.

I certainly appreciated having a little bit of solid ground to stand on every once in a

I just love Renata Reinsbaugh in everything I see her in.