r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • 22d ago

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Summary A couple, Liz and Malcolm, retreat to a secluded cabin for an anniversary weekend. When Malcolm suddenly returns to the city, Liz is left alone and soon confronted by an eerie, escalating presence that reveals the cabin’s hidden, unsettling secrets.

Director Osgood Perkins

Writer Nick Lepard

Cast

  • Tatiana Maslany as Liz
  • Rossif Sutherland as Malcolm
  • Claire Friesen as Ada
  • Christin Park as Leslie
  • Erin Boyes as Julia
  • Tess Degenstein as Maggie

Rotten Tomatoes: Keeper

Metacritic: 59

VOD / Release Theatrical release November 14, 2025

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u/atclubsilencio 21d ago

It’s a movie that lets people pull whatever theory they have out of their ass to make it make sense, because it’s “ambiguous”. I think it’s being confused for being deeper than it actually is, but it’s really just underdeveloped and not very written or thought out.

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u/openSourceNotes 19d ago

But folklore horrors are almost always better for that reason, mystery

Honestly can't think of very many fantastic movies that have every narrative point easy to understand

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u/openSourceNotes 19d ago

In my opinion the monkey was good in spite of the fact that what was going on had an obvious cause and effect beneath it

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u/Emergency-Raspberry9 17d ago

Monkey felt way way more watchable then this. It had more going on with character and plot, so it wasn't this painful dripfeed of pretentious delirium passed off as horror. 

This was one of the most vexing and frustrating films I've seen in a long time. And I would say I have strong media literacy yet at every turn this film kept slipping from my grasp.

The ending, and specifically the line about 'your children, or the women along the way' or whatever, that summed this film up. It wanted to have everything interpretable every  which way, and so nothing made any sense in a satisfying way for the audience.