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“i loved the shot of kris dumping raisinets into her popcorn in a hotel room buried in candy, that image alone had me ready to canonize this thing. then it just kept TALKING. like every ten minutes it stops to have another clever little grad-seminar with itself about the slasher genre and i felt the air leave the room each time. gillian anderson is doing something genuinely eerie and vulnerable that the movie never quite lets breathe, which bums me out because the pastel painted backdrops and that alex g score are legitimately gorgeous. i wanted to be scared and instead i was being lectured by someone who i know is smarter than me and wont shut up about it. still thinking about it a week later though so what do i know”

“asylum shot this in 6 days and still found time for zombie-hulks who sing opera off-key. john and isabel carry the whole thing on their backs tho”

“this is one of those where i could feel myself pulling back from the screen the longer it went. the first half genuinely had me, cramped cabin, nobody knows what's wrong, holly white slowly losing the plot of her own professional calm, which was the part that actually got under my skin. tom brittney does this quiet unshowy thing where he's just a guy using his brain instead of screaming and i wanted to protect him. and then it *explains itself* and the air goes right out of the balloon, like once you can name the thing it stops being scary and starts being a creature with a schedule. 85 minutes and i still felt the padding which is a crime. the vertical phone framing is cute until it isn't but i'd be lying if i said the build didn't work on me on a plane i can't get off of”

“lin shaye at eighty-something still scarier than anything the comic-con demons could cook up. as if i wasn't already terrified of the dentist”