Honestly very confused as to how landed on watching this as a way to get excited about my upcoming move to historical Hollywood. It’s fine! Unremarkable and inoffensive. What more could you want from a made for HBO period piece?
This movie is totally mid and that gives me pleasure because Peter Bogdanovich was such a smug douche
Finally, the surreal gay farcical representation of archiving we deserve
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
As a non-horror person who likes vampire stuff when it’s horny AND glamorous, this gross [horny in an incel way] monster situation is not it for me. Sure, mild lol @ me for never having seen a Robert Eggers movie and coming to this thinking it would basically be the 1922 Nosferatu updated through a Bram Stoker’s Dracula filter. But also, leaning into jump scares as opposed to fully committing to a general sense of foreboding felt like a very masc (by…