As a fellow Menopausal American, I’m pretty sure estrogen is not a big factor in Hillary’s day-to-day decision making.

Right? It’s almost like they’re 51% of the population and not a minority like conservative men seem to think!

The nerve of these women! Men NEVER band together to get their candidates elected!

Yeah like maybe they’re all “we wanted to see how you would treat our weird doll child before we let you nanny this real child and TRIPLE YOUR PAY!”

It occurred to me that they may be hiring? (without seeing the ending, there’s usually a final scene that leads you to believe that the spirit hasn’t been vanquished)

I would just assume that anyone so weird about their doll-kid also had a nannycam, and would act accordingly. Brainless, easy job where I can also read and study? I’m so there. I’d Rosetta stone every language ever.

If for no other reason, you’d think she’d do the tasks in case they have secret nanny cams and upon reviewing her performance when they get back are all, you broke the rules you can forget about your damn fee gtfo.

If the first option of NOPE-ING right out of that situation wasn’t available, I would definitely do whatever necessary to keep a creepy live-sized porceline doll happy. Especially following his arbitrary rules.

You have an offbeat character as the nominal protagonist who does follow the rules and everything goes fine for them - all around them side characters break the rules die horrifically to supernatural clusterfuck. It could work.

right? it’s like, shut the fuck up and do your damn job.

Yeah that’s the only potentially weird one...of course one time I was babysitting three kids for a day and of course the time there was an issue was the three minutes I took to pee.

Yep judging by the trailer she is a slacker!!! What’s all this playing pool and talking to handsome men? Come on Maggie, pull it together.

That’s why I love smart horror movies though. Like The Shining. She follows all the rules, makes smart decisions (tries to radio for help, leave when it's clear there is something wrong with her husband, hits him in the head and locks him in a cellar when he goes insane)-and things still go wrong. Terrifying.

We should write this movie together, Esther. It should star the fabulous cast of the io9 Show and a certain fetching young actor who is writing this comment. Clearly, Pepper’s Ghost and explosions are about to occur.

Maybe a goofus and gallant version where you see one group obey, and one group doesn’t, and at the end, the first group is like “why do you guys look so ragged? why are half of you missing. This was not a difficult thing to do. They even gave us rules.”

Ugh. Someone needs to make a horror film (I haven’t seen The Finals Girls yet, okay?!) where the main character actually does reasonable or sensible things. Someone told me I had to follow a list of ridiculous rules regarding a creepy creepy creepy doll? You can be I would follow that to the absolute letter.

That’s what I was thinking! Like maybe these people are eccentric crazies but you took the job. The job has rules you agreed to in order to get paid.

Right? This just proves to me that filmmakers have never actually had the kind of bullshit job where you can absolutely be fired for not following all the rules, like not twisting people’s arms to sign up for the company credit card - those of us who have would make this a terrible film, since no creepy shit would…