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Okay so I'm booking you in for case management with our social worker tomorrow morning.

It's like leveraging a lot of extant horror film tropes in really interesting ways, but honestly it's being pretty subtle about a lot of it. Like this movie is tapped into real world traumas that people can relate to in ways very constructive to your horror film being horrifying, however this particular subject matter is best addressed indirectly in cases like this. Better to sidle up to the vibes here than try to have your "try to address organized abuse of children in a thematically affecting way" movie stumble up its own ass when also committing to it's "campy throwback love letter horror film that wants to thrill as much as spill" by handling this type of subject matter poorly.

Honestly there's probably a lot of people who saw this and didn't pick up on this

Honestly there's probably a lot of people who saw this and felt the subject matter was handled poorly

Oh also there is no coin machine anywhere in this hospital (or like the world I guess what year is it I haven't seen a change machine for twenty fucking years)

Him: oh yeah I can uh... Why [NEXT CITY OVER] though?

Me: we don't want to go to the hospital here

"Look out, mister sex is coming to fucks you."

The skeletons need not be related to the plot of the movie in any way, they need only to be an obstacle to be overcome so as to continue the plot.

Caine tried an evil Gangle but she kept really aggressively hitting on evil Jax and it made everyone uncomfortable.

Gummigoo is incredibly homophobic but it never had the opportunity to come up. If Caine hadn't deleted him when he did there would have been five to ten seconds before someone was called a slur.

Bubble has always had access to the wifi but never said anything because nobody asked

Bubble cyberstalks people and keeps a catalogue of weird private things gleaned from unsecured webcams and ineffectively anonymized late night drunken posts

Jax has tried ten different ways to masturbate in the circus and none of them work

Zooble has tried twenty three ways to masturbate in the circus and none of them work

Ragatha has tried three thousand four hundred and seventeen ways to masturbate in the circus and none of them work

Wormy never abstracted, he's in the void. He has decidedly won the game of hide and seek.

Pomni is very faintly aware of the other cast members thoughts and feelings. She is not aware of this and believes she is just experiencing normal empathy but it's not that, she can low-key read everyone's minds all the time.

Pomni has no frame of reference for which to be disturbed by receiving everyone's intrusive thoughts directly into her brain because Pomni has catastrophic ADHD and isn't able to differentiate them from her own baseline experience of intrusive thoughts.

Caine has no sense of smell and therefore all smells in the circus are just slightly wrong because he has to guess

The stupid sauce tastes like a child expects Pepto bismol to taste like before they actually taste it for the first time, sorta fruity and creamy but mild and soothing.

This is somehow an enormous shock to everyone who drives here, every time it happens. Which again for reference, this happens like thirty to sixty times per year.

Furthermore, in total discord with the incredible regularity with which this scenario arises, it appears that literally nobody knows how to handle an intersection with a failed traffic light. Having said that "treat it like a four way stop sign" might be making too many assumptions about how well your average driver can handle a four way stop sign...