Deeply unpleasant, which I suppose was the point. Not sure I will ever watch this again but it was extremely memorable, which counts for something
I have been wanting to rewatch this movie for days now... I think I've watched almost every interview with the cast/crew at this point haha. I never do that with movies. I just think it's sooo cool that everyone that worked on the movie was like 30 years old (and younger) and they did it all for $750k, but it's already made almost $200 million. I just read that it got an extended theater run and they are pushing back the digital release because it just keeps getting people in the door like crazy. I really loved this movie and I've loved seeing all the well deserved success they're getting.
I did read a critique I somewhat agreed with about this being Bear's story as opposed to Nicki's, which it could be argued only adds to the actual "horror presented," but it did make me think about how interesting this story would have been from Nicki/the entity's POV. I'm not sure if that's really been done before (so don't steal it lmao).
I think part of what works is it's like Frozen or Beauty and the Beast where you think of this guy is the good guy or protagonist psych he sucks, especially with how it ties into toxic masculinity Presence is from the perspective of a ghost, as is um Ghost, but I don't think any movie is from the perspective of a demon other than American Sniper