#brightburn

Brightburn is a horror movie imagining what would happen if Superman became evil, because he was actually sent to Earth by his planet to, and I quote, "Take the world". The movie was produced by James Gunn and written by one of his brothers and his cousin.

I can't help but wonder if James Gunn thought about this when writing his latest film.

During the first third, I was all in. The horror seemed to be playing on adult fears about how your child will grow up. Can you catch the signs that something is wrong? Can you parent properly? Can you prevent outside sources from corrupting them? What the hell do you do if your kid doesn't have any friends?

And there's a very obvious incel read on the film. The kid feels entitled to the whole world, he makes inappropriate advances, he hurts a girl who rejected him, he has these urges he doesn't know how to handle, he's listening to a spaceship that speaks in its own language, which he seems drawn to, and "obviously" (to me) that's meant to be the internet.

And then, at a certain point, maybe halfway through the movie, he just starts killing people, and it's a pretty stock horror film.