#grimcutty

I thought it was a pretty good take on misinformed moral panics over non-existent internet trends. Not to be that person but I feel like a fair amount of people who watched it, like... almost got the point but missed it at the last minute.

(Some people who watched it REALLY missed the point. I saw one reviewer who claimed the point of the movie is that the internet is terrible and dangerous and everyone would be better off without it. That's like saying the message of Dracula is that we should donate blood to Transylvanian counts.)

Nearly every point I've seen someone go "X was so cringe" about was something I'm pretty sure was cringe on purpose. "The name is stupid, it sounds like a shitty creepypasta" yeah, the name isn't supposed to sound like a good creepypasta, it's supposed to sound like what the most credulous, out-of-touch, & paranoid parents think a creepypasta is. It's supposed to sound like the kind of strawman boogeyman that conservative mommybloggers imagine is peer pressuring their kids to do stupid shit.

You're not supposed to be scared of the monster. You're supposed to be scared of anyone who tells you you should be scared of the monster. You're supposed to hear its name and go "god, pff, wow, really? who could take that seriously? ... what the fuck do you mean parents are taking it seriously"

And the monster was cute. C'mon. Come on now. This is the site for people who look at tall pallid gangly wide-grinned fang-toothed serial-killing monsters and go "heyyy~ ❤️" The monster is cute.

Saw reviewers say it looks like a mix between Slenderman, Ryuk, and Momo like that's a bad thing.

Probably the best movie review I ever posted on the Letterboxd app.