i’ve said it once and i’ll say it again: nobody is making movies like alice maio mackay right now, and this might be her best yet.
i’m always looking for more holiday horror, so if you give me that and a trans final girl i’m basically already sold, but when you throw in a suspenseful small town murder mystery, some truly gnarly gore, and sly queer social commentary to top it all off, i couldn’t ask for more.
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i absolutely adoooooore alice maio mackay as both a filmmaker and a friend and i’m so glad she’s making movies right now because nobody - and i mean nobody - has a voice like hers.
i had the pleasure of watching t blockers almost a year ago and was blown away by her beautifully vicious vision and now that the official trailer is out i can’t recommend that you watch it (and the movie as well obviously) enough. trans women are the future of film babyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is what it feels like doing shrooms with unresolved childhood trauma
even sharper on a second watch. i think this is taking best adapted screenplay tbh?
An truly dynamite debut - makes familiar subject matter feel fresh again thanks to Georgia Oakley’s crisp and clear artistic vision (the direction and shot composition in this are genuinely breathtaking) and Rosy McEwen’s frankly perfect performance, undeniably one of the best of the year so far.
I’m so serious when I say this deserved a Best Original Screenplay nomination
Why have I seen this twice
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Manages to move me to tears over and over again every time I watch it. An essential feminist text we’ll cherish for years.
(And Jessie Buckley is doing brilliant, brilliant work here.)