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Watched two new films. Both were surprisingly sort of about the same type of subject matter: Guilt.

The first one we watched was Monolith. It stars Lily Sullivan of Evil Dead Rise. She's actually the only physical actor that you see in the entire movie. It's about a disgraced journalist that begins a new career as this sort of conspiracy podcaster, though at first her heart isn't really in it. It's definitely more along the lines of a slow burn horror, but I think the reveal is really worth it and it ties everything together really well. She's really great here, definitely a film that needs someone that can have enough presence to act by herself. It's another one of those films that critics seemed to praise and audiences especially disliked it for some reason. Again, I think this is one of those films people here should enjoy.

The other was Cellphone. Based on the title and synopsis, which is basically a woman suffering from the loss of her fiance sees weird images and her cellphone, I was pretty sure this would be hokey and awful. While this is not a great movie, it's far from terrible either I thought. Now it has some plotholes and by the end the cellphone part of the movie is kinda irrelevant and you're wondering how the protagonist is at all connected to the sequence they use to open the film, but it's alright enough. Mostly I'll forget this movie existed, if not for one specific character. One of the most bizarre characters in a horror movie I think I can recall. Genny said he was like an anime character who had somehow found his way into the wrong film, and yeah, I think that's the best way to describe this dude. If you ever watch this, you'll know who I'm talking about the first scene he's in.