Strange Darling (2023)'s comments

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oligneisti

Great film. Went to see it because of a recommendation from The Movies That Made Me podcast. But I am writing this because someone wrote a comment (and posted twice) that gives away more than I think should be given away.

They seem to think that this is OK because they are referencing the trailer but this is exactly the kind of movie you should avoid seeing even the trailer. Don't post stuff like that. Use the spoiler tag.

3 months ago

LORD HORROR

Post Tarantino treat. Best watched without any preconceptions.

2 months 1 week ago

fransisco4

Fun movie.

Stephen King's and Mike Flannagan's good comments about it built it up too much for me unfortunately. It's an entertaining thriller, but nothing on their level, not even the same kind of dread, more actiony.

3 months 3 weeks ago

Siskoid

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The trailer for Strange Darling left it ambiguous as to whether the man or the woman in the story was a serial killer or the victim, and the film keeps this up by showing its chapters in a non-linear order. Only by going back do we learn the truth, suffering through various twists before we've learned our lesson. Once the audience HAS figured it out, it does kind of turn into a Grand Guignol situation, extremely bloody and violent, and therefore less interesting to me than the front half. But this is also a (very) dark comedy, and I would watch a movie that only involved the old hippies played by Ed Bagley Jr. and Barbara Hershey who are a real delight, intruding on Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner's two-hander. The early Tarantino vibe is strong here, with a fetish for 35 mm, unusual shots, color theory, achronological story-telling and well-scripted conversation, but director JT Mollner is less indulgent than QT.

3 months 2 weeks ago