I’m glad the kids have caught on to the fact that Longlegs is a very dumbed down take on Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure.

But horror has gotten very literal lately. An abduction as a literal representation of the feeling when colonialism and so on. But that is propped up by all the video essays that “explain” movies, and by explain they +point out every reference a movie makes to another movie, maybe they read some academic paper or quote some Foucault to make it seem like an intellectual analysis. It feels like movies are made specifically for this audience, to catch all the “easter eggs” and hey this shot is a lot like this other shot in a much better film.

Isabelle Huppert is in Venice saying that cinema is in a very bad place, can you even imagine this woman having to sit through the Beetlejuice sequel? Why is god testing her like this?