This German-Canadian co-production is something of a bait and switch since it's in reality not a supernatural horror and instead is a coming of age story about the real-life horrors of being a 15 year old girl who suspects she might be living in a supernatural horror, which is a clever concept but the story is packed with far too many ideas so none of them are explored satisfactorily. The two lead actresses did pretty well with what they had.
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The Electric State 2025
Simon Stålenhag's paintings (and the artbooks he makes from collections of them) are combinations of majestic, scary, whimsical, satirical, enigmatic, and melancholy, none of which describes this soulless exercise in visibly expensive product, ostensibly an adaptation, where everyone but the below the line crew seems to be phoning it in for the blandest Spielberg ripoff. Stands as a reminder to all that if Netflix was as successful at selling pizza or chairs that's what they'd do instead, they really don't care about movies as movies.
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Revenge 2017
I mentally checked out when I realized I was watching a tension-free excuse to get implausible amounts of ropy, karo-syrup blood out of a bunch of non-characters in unimaginative ways during its run-time. Tipping point was specifically when a dude was digging glass out of his obviously rubber foot for what felt like five minutes. Sort of a cartoon, but not.
Disappointing, because Fargeat does certain things well enough that I think she's a talented director. Maybe Raw set the bar so high that it's ruined me for French horror.
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