Synopsis
Be Careful... She Just Might Take Your Heart.
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
2002 Directed by Lucky McKee
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
May La Muñena Diabolica, Мэй, May - Die Schneiderin des Todes, May, ¿quieres ser mi amigo?, Muñeca diabólica, מאי, Frankenstein játékai, 메이, May - Obsessão Assassina, 五月魔女
This movie understands loneliness a lot better than most.
Whenever you've been alone for so long, you start to long for human touch. Some of you may have read about the scientific study at Yale that suggests that people who take frequent, long, warm showers or baths tend to be lonelier than folks who spend less time bathing and like cooler water. The scientists speculate that physical warmth, such as a shower or bath, is a form of self-therapy to restore social warmth when we're feeling isolated. I feel like the warmth from the water is ersatz for the warmth of human touch.
People who have experienced severe loneliness even start to see simple things like a handshake or a…
Jeremy Sisto's character does not fall in love with May after she serves him Gatorade in a wine glass, what a completely fucking unrelatable character.
may’s “see me” is one of the saddest things in horror movies tbh. glad to find i still love this for all its gangly early-00s ambitions. angela bettis iconic
she did what she needed to do. also: horndog lipstick lesbian anna faris??? like?????????
lovely, small movie about real loneliness, which is so seldom treated with this much care and attention on film. jarringly ferocious montage pulls away at the threads of what might otherwise be a relatively unobtrusive indie comedy until the depth of our heroine's desperation has nothing left to hide behind, all the patchwork clothes and fake loves and affected cheeriness dead in the freezer with the cat. really fucking sad and really fucking sweet, can't decide which is more important. if you can't find a friend, make one!