It was okay. My favorite part by far was a certain death. Pretzel girl.

Maybe it's just my shrinking attention span, but I thought it was too long and not always interesting enough to justify the running time.

I do agree they were smart to not copy the original's color palette. Or much else from the original. It's a very different take.

I heard there's a lot of 1970's German historical stuff in there, right? Did you have strong feelings either way about that?? It sounds interesting to me, but I don't know if it would have the right emotional impact on me if I'm not too familiar with that era in Germany.

The Berlin Wall is literally on the doorstep of the dance company.

The setting is integral to the backstory of one of the main characters at least.

Haven't watched it yet but for some reason, it is not scheduled for getting a UK release on VOD or Blu-ray.. even though it was at the cinemas.

I saw this a couple days ago while briwsing DiabolikDVD. It's supposedly be region B, but I think its a German release.


Mid to late April release.

I still have not seen it. It only played one theater anywhere remotely around me and it was an hour and half drive away.

I'm going to buy the US blu before the year is out.

It's out in Australia. I know because that's where i'm from and how I watched it. Australian Blu-Ray is Region B.

I thought it was pretty amazing but I wouldn't have cast Chloë Grace Moretz even though I like her in general I didn't think she suited the film.

I finally saw this. It is going to take me some time to mull it over and understand it, I think. Of course, I am mostly going to be busy seeing family for the next week or so, so I probably won't be able to get free to think about it, or to come here very much.....

I will just say that it reminded me of Phenomena a lot, in a few different ways, and also somewhat of The Legacy (1978), which starred Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott.

I watched a couple of reviews on different YouTube channels, but I don't know if I agree with them. There is so much psychosexual stuff going on. The scenes with all the older women in the coven eating together, whether in the dance academy dining area or out at that pub they go to, both made me think of the pigs feasting at the end of Animal Farm. I'm not sure if they were aiming to make people have that thought, but that was what came to my mind.

It seemed to have a few things to say about personal and collective memory, and selective amnesia, and about who is doing the selecting in that selective amnesia. Another thing, I'm not sure exactly what they were trying to say about women. For a while I thought maybe they were leading up to making some kind of commentary contrasting the positive power of women with the evil of the male patriarchy, or some comparable bullshit. But, it felt more like they were saying that power is just power, and it can be really horrifying, whether wielded by men or women.

I am not sure what the significance of the historical stuff happening in Germany in 1977 was supposed to be. It felt like it was supposed to mean something, not just provide a fleshed-out historical setting. Probably something about Germany coming to terms with its heritage of fascism.

The wild scene toward the end was seriously bonkers, with all the naked crazed dancing. I'm not quite sure what the hell it was all supposed to mean. Maybe it was to get us thinking about who embodies the future of the group, and who speaks for the roots, the heritage of the group. That was definitely at least part of it.

Anyway. Yah. It's a pretty crazy movie, but powerful in some ways. I'll have to think about it more.

Would you recommend it? I have reservations about the runtime, since the original was pretty short. If this is an hour longer, do they have that much more to say?

It's different from the original. It is set at a dance academy, and there are witches, and some of the characters have the same names as in the original. But it's not really a remake, it's a re-imagining. My point being, I wouldn't exactly say they have more to say than the original, they just have different things to say. Wait.... let me rephrase that. It is unlike the first movie, so it has different things to say, but I would have to say that there are more of those things than there were in the first movie.

I would say that it is worth your time, but just be prepared for an art house film. It's not like watching Blood Diner, ha ha.

It also reminded me of Hereditary, by the way. Just the whole possession thing, I guess, but something about the way they did it was similar to Hereditary. Also, that mysterious shifting, flickering show of lights that kept following Susie around. They had something similar in Hereditary, it followed the son around, and possibly the girl too, right at the beginning... I'd have to check on that.