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“everybody writing this off as companion-but-horny slept on the fact that it does the bone-snapping work practically and it SHOWS, those hydraulic joint sounds got me clenching in a way no cgi crack ever has. lily sullivan is doing something genuinely unhinged here, finding that register between robot flatness and full menace where you cant tell if shes about to make tea or dislocate your whole family. and look i know the critics are mad it never settles into being the sleazy erotic thriller the poster promised but i was too busy cackling at the sheer commitment to groin trauma. multiple times. different methods. somebody in that effects shop had a VISION and i respect the hell out of it. not the smartest movie about ai youll ever see but the kills are mean enough that i didnt care”

“okay the entire internet told me this was the worst thing to hit a multiplex in years and then i sat there watching jessica chastain fold herself into a shape a human spine should not make and genuinely clutching my friend's arm. is it a mess? absolutely. it fires off a jumpscare roughly every ninety seconds like a nervous dog and the whole thing never once sits still long enough to actually scare you properly. but chastain doing that grinning crab thing is worth the ticket alone, the woman commits like her life depends on it. yeah the kitchen table bit is already in the trailer and yeah it still got me, sue me. critics calling it incoherent are right and i still had more fun than at half the "elevated" stuff everyone worships, sometimes you just want a demon wearing your mom's face assaulting your senses for 93 minutes”

“greta lee quietly losing it in that garden grown through the living room floor is the whole thing for me, everyone else can shut up”

“dan stevens licking leather like it's a personality and honestly? it kind of works on me”

“oliver reed does the whole thing with this clenched quiet dignity and it wrecks me because everyone around him is screaming and nobody is actually listening, the machine just keeps grinding regardless. jarman's sets are so white they feel like they're bleaching you, these endless scrubbed tile walls where the worst stuff happens almost administratively, like paperwork. that's the part that got under my skin way more than any of the famous shock material. not evil exactly, just the bored efficiency of power deciding you're expendable and moving on. saw the restoration in a half empty theater and walked out kind of hollowed out, i get why people call it a mess and i also think the mess is sort of the point”