The first hour of this is SO good.

The last ten minutes are SO bad.

In that sense, it may be the most faithful King adaptation ever.

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“hey siri, call the police” boom. problem solved

Plays now more than the book did as a necessary exercise in our collective responsibility towards victims of trauma, and Flanagan is such a tight craftsman that the whole thing has the icky film of exploitation all over it, especially in the flashbacks. Shame he stuck with the source material's terrible coda, but the notorious finale is just as gross and awesome as you imagined when translated to the screen.

????? not that ending 😭

Perhaps the quintessential King adaptation, owning the author's problematic worldview, inability to stick the landing, and guttural dialogue/character work. But it transforms the fetishistic potboiler into a yarn about confronting one's historical abusers, and embracing their pain. Wonderful stuff Flanagan should be so, so proud of.

quite easily the best of the 2017 stephen king adaptations, the hallucinatory nature of genre here is stripped down into something classical, flanagan's textural use of space and lighting grounding the psychological elements of this sticky exploitation, revealing them to be a pretense for the ways in which trauma physically manifests and abuse is perpetuated and ignored. the overwhelming nature of abuse can make it seem otherworldy and undeafeatable, so flanagan instead works to make it tangible, fallible and pathetic, which is why the (seemingly) universal dismissal of the film's coda is so baffling to me, it's fun and ambitious as hell, and totally of peace with the form—psychic wounds made bodily, violence cyclical and bogeymen disappointingly real. "he did what dogs do".

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kinks are cancelled until y’all learn how to behave

I watched this with my grandma

decidedly a horror film and one that makes u feel as claustrophobic and helpless as the woman chained to the bed, but it's more than that - it uses the premise to tell a powerful story of victimhood, of abuse and lies and shame. it gets a bit too heavy-handed at times but its grip is so tight and the tension so thick that it never feels unearned. a potent statement that her insistence to not be raped is what ultimately causes his inevitable heart attack and thus the prolonged and lonely entrapment.

horror as a vehicle

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Just watched this a couple of months ago but my mom recently finished the book and was going to watch and hey, I was down for a rewatch. Enjoyed it even more the second time so I added half a star to my original score! Truly great film by Mike Flanagan. I love survival films such as 127 Hours and I love horror. In that way it’s a fantastic genre blend.

Ucuz bir film beklentisiyle açtım, iyi filmmiş hissiyle bitirdim.

What a dumb ending

I missed the weird food eating scene - sad

there was no reason to make that guy so scary i missed most of the movie hiding my face in a pillow

Jogo Perigoso

forgot how extreme this film is ... honestly this would have been a near perfect experience if it wasn't for the final reveal ... feel like it could've been better without the whole last five minutes

Arrasaram no conceito kkkkk mas a execução....

scared me a lot the first time i watched it. i havent rewatched it yet

Sex is overrated

This film was bad. Really, really bad...

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