I actually wanted way more of the iterative uncanny set design and way less plot. I think the real aesthetic horror behind the backrooms is in their fundamental meaninglessness, anonymity, and collective unconsciousness. Funneling that into a very particular narrative around themes of trauma and memory works, I guess, if you had to pick something; but the liminality is lost for me as soon as you define the boundaries, and I think a lot of the potential here was suffocated

Show me another movie with stop-motion skinwalkers, a cunnilingus demon, and a Marx Machine™️

Maybe I’m a bit too cynical for the happy ending; but I was literally pumping my fist in the air at the dialectical materialism explanation in a brightly colored action-comedy

Cinematic! Genuinely excellent, portrait-quality lighting and camera work elevated to the highest degree possible for such a scantly financed independent production. Slasher horror, tension, and atmosphere done right, in my book

This is exactly what happens when a straight man traps a queer girl into a codependent relationship. I see this shit happen across America every day; the male fantasy truly is horrific!

Shoutout my homie Kait, lighting technician extraordinaire!