It's Not a Phase, Mom! Gothic Horror: The Blackcoat's Daughter

Now, I might be too stupid for this movie, or I might be overthinking, but...

When the movie ended, it just really had me going, huh? What the fuck? But I also didn't hate this movie.

I really like a lot of things about it.

I love, oh, like Kiernan Shipka's performance.

I loved it.

I love watching her.

I think she does creepy kid really, really well.

So even like even in like Mad Men, she wasn't necessarily creepy, but you knew there was something a little off with her.

And, you know, that a lot of that could just be Don Draper's fault, because while I love Don Draper, the ad man, Don Draper, the husband father just can fuck all the way off.

What a piece of shit.

But ad man Don Draper is whoo.

But yeah, so Kiernan Shipka's performance I thought was really, really, really good.

Again, she does kind of like creepy kid just wonderfully.

I'm not sure if it's just the way she's able to kind of do like a dead stare almost.

But just something kind of unsettling about her at times when she kind of plays some of these creepier characters.

And I also really like the kind of... atmospheric ambiance vibes being a little creepy and unsettling.

I even found it to be a little tense at times.

And I think a lot of that has to do with just kind of the music, the score to set that tone.

And also the closed captionings are fantastic in this movie because it really adds to maintaining that atonal creepiness because the closed captionings will mention ominous thumping or atonal discordant music and stuff like that.

And so that everyone kind of has that as immersive of experience with it.

Because I do think that a lot of just like that feel of the movie, the tone, the unsettlingness of it really helps is something I think this movie does very well.

And the score, like I said, just really helps with maintaining that and to have that translated through the closed captioning to maintain that is fantastic.

Versus...

it not mentioning whatever creepy atonal music is going on oh let's see and some of like the creepy and like intense bits because like there are a couple of times with um with the kiernan's character cat oh that was a lot of sounds i wasn't ready for that But like when she's kind of slowly becoming, well, it's one part is definitely when she's down at the furnace when Rose spots are down there and Kat is just repeatedly bowing and kind of fast.

And there's just something a little – there's something very creepy about that, which I do really like.