03-02-2021, 09:50 AM
I don't tend to agree, but 'Saint Maud' pushed it to another level.
So first of all I'm not gonna really review the movie because it hasn't gotten a big release in the US and I want people to be able to see it and experience it for themselves, but I feel as though people should also know what they're getting themselves into, because if someone warned me about this ahead of time, I may have enjoyed the film more.
Also, I should say normally this type of indie slow burn creepy horror that gets called 'not real horror' by mainstream audiences tend to be some of my favorite films of the year; Relic, Midsommar, The Witch, Hereditary, The Babadook, It Follows, It Comes at Night, etc etc. I heard plenty of criticisms of the marketing, but in most cases I only ever found those to be somewhat misleading at the worst. Tl;dr this is not usually the kind of thing that bothers me. I love almost all those films and found them to be genuinely unnerving or disturbing to some extent. With that being said, Saint Maud is just straight up not a horror movie. It has one of the most spoiler filled and flagrantly dishonest trailers I've ever seen. The entire film has maybe 3 minutes of 'horror', and if you've seen the trailer you've seen it all.
This isn't even a case of a film trying to be scary and it's not, this is a case of the film is legitimately not even trying to be a horror film but the marketing was trying to say it was, but to a completely different level than something like The Witch or Hereditary. I would defend either of those are great horror films any day of the week, but I flat out would not call Maud an actual horror movie. It's a shame because I doubt this is what the director wanted.
Just know that even if you expect A24 trailers to be misleading, Saint Maud is just by far the most extreme example, and to be honest I'm really disappointed, both in the film, and the fact that I was so hugely mislead. I can't even imagine who wrote those pull quotes, but they must've been watching a different movie from me lol. Calling The Witch a 'modern horror classic'? Sure, I can get down with that. Calling Saint Maud 'wickedly unnerving' or saying 'every breath is suspenseful'? What the fuck were they smoking?
That's about it, really. If you don't go into this expecting anything on par with A24's past horror, and you don't go in expecting to be scared or tense at all, you might enjoy it as a drama.
So first of all I'm not gonna really review the movie because it hasn't gotten a big release in the US and I want people to be able to see it and experience it for themselves, but I feel as though people should also know what they're getting themselves into, because if someone warned me about this ahead of time, I may have enjoyed the film more.
Also, I should say normally this type of indie slow burn creepy horror that gets called 'not real horror' by mainstream audiences tend to be some of my favorite films of the year; Relic, Midsommar, The Witch, Hereditary, The Babadook, It Follows, It Comes at Night, etc etc. I heard plenty of criticisms of the marketing, but in most cases I only ever found those to be somewhat misleading at the worst. Tl;dr this is not usually the kind of thing that bothers me. I love almost all those films and found them to be genuinely unnerving or disturbing to some extent. With that being said, Saint Maud is just straight up not a horror movie. It has one of the most spoiler filled and flagrantly dishonest trailers I've ever seen. The entire film has maybe 3 minutes of 'horror', and if you've seen the trailer you've seen it all.
This isn't even a case of a film trying to be scary and it's not, this is a case of the film is legitimately not even trying to be a horror film but the marketing was trying to say it was, but to a completely different level than something like The Witch or Hereditary. I would defend either of those are great horror films any day of the week, but I flat out would not call Maud an actual horror movie. It's a shame because I doubt this is what the director wanted.
Just know that even if you expect A24 trailers to be misleading, Saint Maud is just by far the most extreme example, and to be honest I'm really disappointed, both in the film, and the fact that I was so hugely mislead. I can't even imagine who wrote those pull quotes, but they must've been watching a different movie from me lol. Calling The Witch a 'modern horror classic'? Sure, I can get down with that. Calling Saint Maud 'wickedly unnerving' or saying 'every breath is suspenseful'? What the fuck were they smoking?
That's about it, really. If you don't go into this expecting anything on par with A24's past horror, and you don't go in expecting to be scared or tense at all, you might enjoy it as a drama.
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