I read it that way too. I don't understand why the hug would be in there if Alicent wasn't about to tell her that the girl was dead.

I saw that with my dad and brother and while I was shaken by it like you were, they were like “next time we’re picking the movie” LOL

that original Exorcist trailer...holy fucking shit, that movie is the ONLY one on this list that messed with my sleep as a child, and that was BEFORE I saw that trailer, which would probably mess with my sleep as an adult if I hadn’t turned it off LOL.  (and after Hereditary was positively compared to the Exorcist I…

Hereditary is easily the most messed-up movie I’ve seen in the last 10 years.  Enjoy.

Ah yes, the fainting goat defense.

I had this same experience when I went with friends to The Blair Witch Project. They were not, I might say, the most imaginative reading-type folks, which might be why. They saw a boring 90-minute documentary that never delivered at the end. I was utterly terrified for weeks, because my imagination had created…

I’ve noticed when I get too scared or overstimulated by a movie I fall asleep. A primal freeze/play dead response? I see all horror movies in the theater, and I still have no idea what happens in the last 15-25 minutes of Hereditary. I woke up to the final still image a split second before the credits. That image…

Katie Rife (whose podcast(s) I used to regularly listen to, starting at Sound On Sight, briefly renamed to PopOptiq) doesn’t seem to realize that this was inspired by Hunter’s personal experience, rather than him “paternalistically guessing” about other people.

Plus, I’ve read that the film depicts the character at various stages of his life and at various weights, so that presents a challenge. It’s easier to cast an actor like Fraser—who is a larger actor by Hollywood standards—and then craft a few different suits so that he can play the character at various stages of his…

Someone that size would have extreme difficulty getting to and from the set, going through makeup and wardrobe, and spending weeks of long days under hot lights.

She is correct that this film can give people the impression that all obese people are miserable but this was a play based on an obese man’s personal experience. We need to be able to tell all the stories, and this is one of them. 

I really wonder if the people criticizing this have seen any other movies by Aronofsky; like, the guy who made the Wrestler with a physically brokedown drug addled lead, and who made what was essentially a movie about drug addiction that was just an hour long ad for Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” motto. The guy does not…

I mean he’s not wrong. There are no 600 lb actors with any kind of profile that the public even knows, even if there are any at ALL, and he is also right that physically they would not have been able to handle the role, look at 600 lbs your not going to be able to go 8 or 9 hours under lights in makeup doing whatever…

There are no 600 pound actors with any kind of profile in the industry, and like he said, the issues with casting someone who actually weighed 600 pounds would be prohibitive. Aranofsky also has to make his investor’s money back, therefore you need a known name to put on the poster. I don’t have a problem with them…

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Where do movies like “Irreversible” and “Funny Games” fall as far as “horror”? There are no unexplainable boogeymen (well, for the most part) but they’re far more scary to me because they’re seemingly regular people doing the most horrific things to other seemingly regular people. There’s no supernatural stuff, which…

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This I think really more than anything underscores that horror and fear are such personal and idiosyncratic experiences. There’s gonna be tons of comments saying something like “sure _____ was scary. But _____ being on this list? That wasn’t scary at all!” And honestly, that’s because we’ve all got our own fears and…

Don’t forget that (someplace) there should be a written procedure or instructions and refer the incompetent back to it, and if there isn’t such documentation, that is also a good way to shed light on the real issue of lack of directions/their need of updating, laziness or true incompetence.

I deal with incompetence the say way, whether it is “weaponized” or not: