I don't think I've ever heard the audience cheer for a kid's death, and I know this sounds horrible but it was appropriate, OK?
More importantly though, everyone applauded for the beautiful send-off for Tony Todd. Thank you for your legendary nightmares 🐝
Listen, this may not be the best movie of the year, but I'm just glad we're having fun with slashers again. And as much as I love horror that explores grief, trauma, humanity, identity, or dives deep into its lore... sometimes it's nice to just watch a masked killer chase teenagers through a cornfield 🌽🤡
This is the most minor, insignificant detail, but I just want the world to know that the Russian submarine called "Losharik" is the most hilarious thing I've seen in a dead-serious movie in a while.
Here's the lore: "Лошарик" is not only a weird-looking horsey "animal" made out of balls from a Soviet cartoon from the 70s, but also slang for calling someone a stupid sucker. So yea, a Russian submarine is called a stupid sucker. As a Ukrainian, I couldn't approve more.
I still don't like the last 10 minutes of this movie. And it's weird because I totally get why some of it is necessary for the film's emotional arc (while other parts are very much an infodump), but the way it's done makes it feel like "here's a bunch of stuff we didn't know how to include in the movie". I think Gerald's Game would have felt a little incomplete without it, but as is - it comes off like…
Ralph Fiennes: I am sequestered, don't tell me anything!
Also Ralph Fiennes: OK, but if it's drama-worthy - tell me now while I still have time to start said drama during this conclave 👀
I can just feel the people who are getting ready to complain about "fan service", but I'm a fan and I was fucking SERVICED!
