Mm

... one of the sisters knocks a jar of marbles off the, uh, off the table and it shatters on the floor and the marbles and glass sort of come toward the camera in slow motion.

And that's repeated not just as a visual motif, but also as like a memory trigger that like this five-year-old girl heard, heard her older sister ... knock her marbles off the table while she was being murdered, and that's gonna like burn into your conscious.

So I think as fun as Slumber Party Massacre is, I think Carol Frank just put a lot more thought into the making of-

Yeah

... and writing about them.

But yeah, I think watching a ton of movies just naturally changes how you think about movies, which is, like, the conundrum of being a critic.

Because if, if you think of film criticism as a kind of, like, consumer advocate, where the point is, like, I'm gonna see this before you do and tell you whether or not you should see it, that's a problem in that film critics necessarily want different things out of movies than the casual moviegoer does.