honestly i think what i like most about this horror (besides that you actually care about the characters) is that it doesn't do anything cheap ... no jump scares, not ISN'T THIS GROTESQUE AND THEREFOR SCARY, it just ... presents all this weird ass shit for your uneasy consideration
i definitely think horror tends to work best in either a really short or much longer format - standard movie length horror rarely does it for me, but horror short films can be very effective, and a long series like this really gives the story room to breathe and grow and just be quietly unsettling instead of throwing a bunch of stuff at you in an 1hr30min
they're really checking all the boxes and I'm enjoying it, we got mouth bug and floaty ghost and weird elongated scream face and a dumbwaiter and crayon drawings
honestly i could only take the kitten parts because they were so obviously cg, the instant they needed a kitten to be still they weren’t using a real one
I'm gonna have to rewatch it because I know I missed a lot of things going on in the background and there's a lot of stuff that's only obvious to me looking back and now we're too deep to actually go back together and find it
win and I missed a lot b/c we were both "working" while watching but there's a lot of stuff happening all the time to make you feel way more unsettled and disoriented
honestly the mystery i'm most glad they solved for me was why mrs dudley kept being like the what room??? when steve said he was in his game room, or nellie said she was in the toy room
combining the scenes of theo in her dance room and nellie/shirley trying to get in was such a cool way to show that, even though i didn't really get it at the time
a surprisingly and satisfyingly happy ending though, despite all the tears. it’s really impressive when a story manages to balance happy and sad so well
i cried like FUCKIN BABYTHAT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAID BEFORE ZEE