In many ways, this felt like a very Nostalgic movie. Not so much in terms of plot or themes, but there were so many little things that felt like a throwback to a kind of horror that we've discarded as the genre has continued to evolve, and in a weird way, it made for a really cozy, if scary watch.

Some of it made me think of Sinister and The Ring - obviously, there's the found artifact aspect of it,…

i was an Ugly Girl growing up. i mentioned this in a conversation a little while ago, me and a few other girls at a halloween party, and i was kind of taken aback by their reaction - dude, you're hot, shut the fuck up. that sort of dismissive reassurance women sometimes give each other when they think you're fishing for compliments. i don't think they understood what i meant. whenever i look at pictures of my younger self, at…

This movie is best described by one of the later scenes: driving a car on a highway full of trucks, the same way Anais navigates the ugly road to adolescence, a claustrophobic ride where she tries to squeeze through the narrow spaces she can claim as her own. Through her journey as her sister’s accomplice we are exposed to a crude study of female sexuality, and particularly what sex is to teenage girls. Being a virgin is sickening, and she’d…