so I went in p much blind and watched this
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it was...okay. I feel like this is a movie that would've absolutely terrified me as a kid (reminded me of the painting in MOUSE HUNT!!) but the horror felt kinda silly to me here. Not only that but the death scenes started to feel extremely repetitive after like the first two. I did appreciate the gag with the assistant girl stumbling upon THREE of her bosses bodies tho
Gyllenhaal was definitely the bright spot and he deserved a better movie around him, he basically brought his A game to some schlocky B movie. Favorite scene for sure was when he stumbles into his girlfriend's apartment and sees the artist making breakfast, his freakout and the guy's reaction afterwards were hilarious. And I enjoyed his character's little quips throughout, like when he dissed the color of that one dude's casket. I also thought his character had the only really good death but that's mostly cuz I loved the look of that weird animatronic dude
idk I feel like this movie would've been more fun and worked better if it was just committed to being a tongue-in-cheek satire of the art world rather than a horror movie |
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