The YouTube to A24/Neon pipeline puts the current state of cinema in a really cool place. The fact that a 20 year old convinced a creatively progressive studio (yet still a movie studio) that there’s a wide release market for essentially a purely internet fabricated creepypasta at feature length is just cool any way you slice it, one upside of us being chronically online. 

The execution here is… maybe a bit dull? I wasn’t expecting anything high octane but it…

This had the guys STRESSED. Happened to my buddy @SuperBTrain in college. Watching his nightmare unfold was not a ride I wanted to get off. 

It’s so encouraging to have a sicko like Cliv-, I mean Curry Barker in the business. He’s about to blow up and for good reason, imagine what he does with 10 million. Not that he needs it, the mileage he gets out of this relatively microscopic budget is extremely impressive. The lighting and sound design…

First forty minutes are a triumph here. Watching a POW come home from a war he never should’ve been in slowly coming to terms with the fact that he will never lead a normal life again was as heartbreaking as it was disturbing. The cross cutting between Vietcong hellhole and equally restraining suburban malaise really hammers just how fucked a man’s psyche becomes after one “learns to love the rope.” That scene by the way is unbelievable. Devane plays it…

Realized trying to catch @SuperBTrain’s stats was a lost cause, that kid’s a #CertifiedCinephile so decided to crack a book this weekend instead. Huge fan of Crichton, Jurassic Park is all time for me but was not familiar with the black sheep older brother. Just like that book this one is also a brutally cynical, mean-spirited outlandish tale of man’s insatiable yet always futily misguided desire to control nature disguised as a really fun and pulpy page-turner. GoodReadsmaxxing aside, the…