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Ok, listen up I don't really like choose your own adventures. Bandersnatch wasn't what it cracked up to be but gotta say this new Kimmy movie is so damn funny!! Every choice we take, good or bad, is HILARIOUS and good thing is we don't really have to repeat stuff again and again! It's done right!

Glad to see the core four back! I love all of them but gotta give a shoutout to Jane Krakowski because I love her so much! The guest actors are pretty funny too!

Story wise, it actually adds to the main series so that's great.

GO ON HAVE FUN NOW!!!!

A gothic supernatural movie based on the novel 'The Turn of the screw' and I will say this is not a very committed adaptation, it's more like a skeletal story taken and made into a different movie just like Kubrick did with The Shining but then again comparing that movie with this will be a huge slap in the face for everyone involved in The Shining.

My main problem with this film was how un-gothic it was. This movie takes place in the 80s, 90s or modern day, I am not sure. Discarding it's period setting should've and could've worked if they had just specified a time period. I was so damn confused and it's not like It Follows where not knowing just helps us.

Another part I disliked was the scares. Again, did this movie want to be this atmospheric horror or just a jumpscare pop corn flick? Even the movie couldn't decide it. There's one solid scare and one moment of genuine creepiness but that's about it. Again, the gothic atmosphere is thoroughly underused.

One thing I did like was the performance from Mackenzie Davis, going from annoyed to scared, she really does a good job. Finn Wolfhard is just there and he really tries to be this creepy kid but it doesn't work, he should go back to his 80s era wisecracking roles. No offense to the actor. The scene stealer here is definitely the little girl Brooklyn Prince who really shines through.

The story is slow, and then fast and the slow. Let me elaborate. In the beginning, the story takes it time to settle which I was all for it. It was building up to something. But then by the middle we are just shown a couple of scene so fast, one after another, I thought I'd need a breather. And then the end happens... the ending was just unsatisfying and just plain confusing or even lazy.

I caught this movie as a premiere and I heard the director say that she made it in such a way that she wanted the ending to be open to interpretation but I say give us something solid story wise for us to make our own interpretation. All this while we're seeing this story develop as a ghost story and then in the end you make it seem all intellectual or mental or whatever, it just won't work. I just didn't care enough to make my own interpretation.

I think everyone should go and watch it and form their own opinion. Don't expect something grand or you'll be disappointed like me. I had such high hopes for this adaptation of one of my favorite book but I guess I'll have to wait for another adaptation to come into fruition.

I will give this movie a four out of ten. 4/10. That 4 simply because of the little girl and that one scene involving a mannequin.