Kris (Hannah Einbinder) has persuaded some investors to think about backing her effort to revive an old horror series taking place at a secluded holiday camp. To do this, she located the woman who originally played the distressed character in the franchise’s very first film, many years ago. Billy (Gillian Anderson) has largely stayed out of the public eye since that initial success and now lives at the camp where the movies were filmed. Now during winter, Kris faces snowy conditions to visit her—and her arrival at the unsettlingly quiet camp triggers a few hours filled with emotional and psychological tension with her mysterious host. I believe my issue with this arose from Jane Schoenbrun’s choice to emphasize her own experiences and let the plot's central mystery take a backseat. It’s evident that this filmmaker has faced difficulties getting her often unconventional films funded and made, and combined with an openness about sexuality that Einbinder and the underutilized Anderson are willing to portray, it evolved into more of a reflection on a character I couldn’t really connect with, set against a somewhat superficial examination of the repetitive slasher genre that it attempts to profit from. The different elements do coalesce a bit further toward the end, but I think by referencing so many familiar aspects and photographic approaches from films like "Halloween," "Friday the 13th," or even the more recent "Black Phone" sequel, and providing very little substantial conversation, this ultimately becomes trapped in its own introspective ordinariness instead of rising above a typical level of filmmaking.

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