Saw this on a double feat with Obsession tonight. Liked Obsession more, but thought this was pretty great. Couldn't get over how packed out the theater was for something so strange. I don't clamor for sequels but I would love to see more entries exploring the rooms while not explaining too much. Final shot chilled me to the bone.
Yeah that closing sequence as a whole was amazing (I loved the shot of the missing poster on several iterations of telephone pole) and the final shot was very sad and shocking even if it wasn't technically her.
Not much to much to interpret from my POV tbh. We don't have any evidence that originals mutate into copies, and they seem to exist regardless what space the original inhabitant is in, so I think Mary's fate is ambiguous and we're just seeing a copy. However the way Clark portrays the copies ("they don't think, they don't feel they just exist") is such an obvious projection of what he wants that it makes me think they do have thoughts and feelings and experiences and that makes the ending kind of devastating to me.
When the human flesh ended up looking like angel food cake I went from "NOOO" to "actually..." pretty dang fast.
She built a life around the idea of saving people and setting them free because of her childhood and she ultimately ended up walking right into her own loop, locked again in a room. Their insides looked like furniture stuffing. “They just exist…like furniture!”
Thought about Exit 8 multiple times while watching this, and how much that worked for me when this didn’t really.
Liked this way more than Obsession. I know only thing they have in common is they are both Youtuber horror movies making bank but they are part of a moment.
Still need to see Obsession but I will be very happy if I like it more than this. I tend to prefer atmospheric horror over plot-driven stuff. But idk anything about it, so we’ll see.
this was a great time. like others have echoed, maybe a bit thin re: plot, but the more i think about it, the more i like filling in the blanks. great performances, and very impressive visuals/set design. the fact that Parsons is only 20 (or 21?) and that this is his first film says a lot about his future. my showing had almost every seat full. was also not expecting my auditorium to have Dolby Atmos capabilities, and it really pulled through.