Oct 5, 2026 · 1 hr 48 min · 13 segments
This week's double feature is: Center Stage (2000) Abigail (2024) Trigger & Content Warnings for this episode include: Violence, Death, Gore, Eating Disorders, Body Image, Diet Culture…
On that note, why don't we go into our reactions? Let's start with Abigail.
[laughs]
I'm not reacting on purpose.
What do you mean?
It was not my favorite movie of the season.
[laughs] I mean, did it beat out Water Devil?
It was not my favorite movie of the season.
[laughs]
[laughs] Poor Abigail.
There was so much gore.
I hate gore with no reason, and there was just so much gore.
I will say, one of the notes that I put down was that, um, I felt it would be a better movie if they had toned down the gore and gone more psychological.
See, now then I would've enjoyed it.
I like ps- psychological thrillers.
And I think the, the core story is really interesting.
Um, I am now gonna give a spoiler warning.
It is very difficult to talk about the movie Abigail without spoiling the ending, spoiling the twist, so you have been warned at this point in the podcast.
If you do not want to know the ending of Abigail, skip ahead.
Abigail is about a little girl who gets kidnapped, and in the beginning of the movie, um, it's great.
I, I, I think the, the bad guys are done really kinda well.
I was enjoying it up at that point.
Yeah.
You know, there's c- there's some dialogue like, "Whose house is this?" "I don't know." "Yeah, me neither." Um, there's no names.
It's, it's very much has a feeling of like a heist movie at the beginning.
Um, things I quite like.
On that note, why don't we go into our reactions? Let's start with Abigail.
[laughs]
I'm not reacting on purpose.
What do you mean?
It was not my favorite movie of the season.
[laughs] I mean, did it beat out Water Devil?
It was not my favorite movie of the season.
[laughs]
[laughs] Poor Abigail.
There was so much gore.
I hate gore with no reason, and there was just so much gore.
I will say, one of the notes that I put down was that, um, I felt it would be a better movie if they had toned down the gore and gone more psychological.
See, now then I would've enjoyed it.
I like ps- psychological thrillers.
And I think the, the core story is really interesting.
Um, I am now gonna give a spoiler warning.
It is very difficult to talk about the movie Abigail without spoiling the ending, spoiling the twist, so you have been warned at this point in the podcast.
If you do not want to know the ending of Abigail, skip ahead.
Abigail is about a little girl who gets kidnapped, and in the beginning of the movie, um, it's great.
I, I, I think the, the bad guys are done really kinda well.
I was enjoying it up at that point.
Yeah.
You know, there's c- there's some dialogue like, "Whose house is this?" "I don't know." "Yeah, me neither." Um, there's no names.
It's, it's very much has a feeling of like a heist movie at the beginning.
Um, things I quite like.
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