The only time I’ve ever experienced this was with Skinamarink, had two different people walk out of it. I completely understand why people don’t like it, but I was in the 50% of people who saw it that it totally worked for. It got under my skin in a way no other horror movie has (even amongst some really good ones that I really loved/was scared by!), and it was the first one in a while that scared me as an adult. For a long time after seeing it, I hated walking around my house at night for any reason.
I watched it with friends and one of us fell asleep during the first few minutes. We all ended up envying her because we fall solidly in the “nothing about this movie works for us” camp. It’s rather telling that we started making Look Around You jokes after the basement scene.
But yeah, it’s interesting about how polarizing this movie is not for its content or message but for how it’s made. For some people it really seems to hit a nerve, for others it’s an extremely badly shot movie about a ghost with severe ADHD alternating between gluing things to walls and tormenting chatbot approximations of human children.
The only time I’ve ever experienced this was with Skinamarink, had two different people walk out of it. I completely understand why people don’t like it, but I was in the 50% of people who saw it that it totally worked for. It got under my skin in a way no other horror movie has (even amongst some really good ones that I really loved/was scared by!), and it was the first one in a while that scared me as an adult. For a long time after seeing it, I hated walking around my house at night for any reason.
I watched it with friends and one of us fell asleep during the first few minutes. We all ended up envying her because we fall solidly in the “nothing about this movie works for us” camp. It’s rather telling that we started making Look Around You jokes after the basement scene.
But yeah, it’s interesting about how polarizing this movie is not for its content or message but for how it’s made. For some people it really seems to hit a nerve, for others it’s an extremely badly shot movie about a ghost with severe ADHD alternating between gluing things to walls and tormenting chatbot approximations of human children.