butch iscariot

mike flanagan is anti-horror. grey brown netflix sludge, tenderness without intimacy. his little limp dick narratives are skin deep, no flesh no blood, no honest exploration of the works of art that he's being lauded for willfully misunderstanding. "from the heart and soul of mike flanagan" is oxymoronic and stupid and as trite as his FUCK NOTHING television shows and movies.

also he's just straight up a misogynist. to me.

image description: an illustration of Clark, Dr. Mary Kline, Captain/Pirate Clark, the Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life, and the Redheaded Still Life from the Backrooms movie, showing Clark with a bloody shoulder and his eyes closed in Mary's lap as she holds him, staring wide-eyed at the viewer and both of them with solid yellow halos behind their head, with the Redheaded Still Life and Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life on either side of them while Captain/Pirate Clark looms behind them. / end description

on my second viewing of obsession, i had the realization that nikki’s story at the party wasn’t the movie using incest as an easy shorthand for making the audience uncomfortable or creating a general “things are off” vibe but was another way the real nikki was crying out—a metaphor for the fact that nikki, like gretel, is being made to fuck her “little brother” (bear) under duress, at the behest of an external magic (the witch’s spell in her story; obviously, bear’s wish)