Letterboxd — Your life in film

It's good, not great, but does a lot with a very limited budget and scope. Interesting characters and enough mythology to effectively have a few things to say about how different people would experience their own impending doom.

What a lot of people called daring and edgy storytelling I think is better realized as messy. It's uncomfortable watching this and picking up a lot of the shitty ways the woman is depicted and treated in this film and how aggressive Caruth's character is who then gets everything that he wanted, meanwhile it comes out later that Shane is actually an abusive dick in real life.

So slow, so great, so weird. My wife walked in during the fish fucking scene and asked what I was watching. Took like five minutes to explain and obviously that still doesn't completely explain why there is a fish having sex with a woman in a lake.

Not what I was expecting but boy am I glad I caught this in the theater. Fantastic sound, innovative cinematography, enthralling story. This feels like the kind of movie where in ten years, each of these actors is going to be big enough to marvel at the fact that all of them were in one movie together.

Excruciatingly, deliciously slow. In anybody else's hands this would have been 20 minutes and far less enveloping. Tilda fucking rules, and the concept hits you like a bump in the night. Feels strangely connected to Three Thousand Years of Longing.

Mad Max meets Arabian Nights with thirst traps for everyone- and I'm not just talking about Tilda! Wonderful experience, like a good movie made better with drugs without the hassle of doing drugs.

I appreciate the first half of this movie like I appreciated the first half of X. I get that Ti West wants to make horror/slasher whatever, but there's ways to tell a good story, too. And while the climactic confession was good, and Mia Goth gives a great performance, it felt lacking in crucial narrative ways.

We went to the 3D re-release for my birthday, which was coincidentally released on my birthday, and I had been excited about this fact, and it was as wonderful as I remember. Apparently, my excitement was confused with the excitement I also hold for the sequel that comes out in December, because when leaving the theater my wife informed me she thought it was the sequel until about ten minutes in. I love her so much.