Synopsis
Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.
Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.
The Scary of Sixty-First Street, The Scary of 61st Street, Ужас на 61-й улице, 스케어리 오브 식스티-퍼스트, 六十一号的恐怖, Жах на 61-й вулиці, 租屋寓到鬼
Funniest part of the movie for me was "is that ghislaine maxwell?" and it's just anna khachiyan with her goofy ass mullet
animated porn game pop up as effective jump scare bc they knew the majority of us are watching this illegally
[Affecting David Ehrlich voice]
Dasha Nekrasova’s directorial debut is Friedkin meets Argento in a nightmarish A24-era romp through the Safdie brothers’ New York. But squeamish viewers beware: this isn’t your parents’ Eyes Wide Shut.
you guys just don’t get it. you’re phillistines, you’re not with the shits when it comes to culture and art. as a woman who hovers around 105 pounds i understand dasha’s body of work (as well as just her body). i’m woke and brilliant. i pirated this film on a website that made my laptop overheat for a week. real guerilla shit
Some nice moments but mostly it reminds me of the psychological thriller I wrote when I was 16 that was set at my high school and the principal was named Dr. Caligari
Deliberately provocative, yes, but mileages will vary as to whether it's a grungy, sly joke or a glib, smug one. Certainly its confrontations seem a bit prankish, like adolescent dares, and I'm not sure if it's actually productive in pulling on its threads of either unchecked powerful fiendish men or the conspiracy-obsessed. But it is frequently funny and its formal and narrative influences (some more obvious than others) aren't just references, they're purposeful. This isn't the work of a dilettante no matter how tempting it might be to call it one. Reminded me a lot of TINY FURNITURE.
Totally see why this isn't working for people but against my better judgement I found this genuinely and (I think?) intentionally pretty funny. Not sure it totally coheres its psychological disintegration via political conspiracy thing it's going for but it does feel strange, off-putting and completely in bad taste. Despite its existence feeling like a joke dare between friends it does contain a shocking image or two, and unlike so many others who tried to revive this era of filmmaking this year, it does effectively look and sound like one of the cheap, amateurish exploitation movies I'd find the 16mm reels of in a garbage bin.
This is not a film about what happened after Epstein, or a film that attempts to create a narrative to follow it, but a movie that uses the setting as an excuse to provide writing that pushes its own meta-narrative, that which is ostensibly about being rich in New York City and appropriating internet slang. This is a hard film to rate and critique. You think it’s hitting a stride and then you feel stupid for giving it a chance. The biggest and most heartbreaking insult I can offer is that it's “nothing special”. It hasn’t reinvented anything, not from overuse of kitsch, not from genuinely compelling narrative techniques, not from genuinely compelling directing techniques. Not from any lens I…
What if your most annoying online friend decided they were going to make a giallo