Sir, this is an Arby’s.

we get it, you just read the book recently and want to talk about it. this movie is about something else, please go find a bored librarian

Because this *is* a Universal horror film, specifically designed to revive a classic Universal horror movie from 1933 (and subsequent 1940s film series)? And in general, movies tend to have more in common with other movies than with novels? This isn’t particularly an adaptation of the Wells novel. Even the older…

I’m VERY reluctant to go to “gaslighting” if only because I have a stubborn aversion to using terms that seem to really capture the zeitgeist, and then hang around forever as people overuse, misuse, and otherwise make tedious these terms like they’re all college freshmen who just got to a new part of the English…

It’s not her friends that are gaslighting her though. I think this is one of the rare circumstances where the term is used correctly. In the original movie, the main guy is doing things like flickering the lights, then telling his wife that he didn’t see anything when she questions it, which makes her feel crazy.