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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-28 (Monday)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:35:58 -0700
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On 4/29/2025 7:34 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> 
>> The Front Room (HBO) 2024 movie written and directed by the Eggers
>> Brothers and starring Brandy as a pregnant woman who along with her
>> husband (Andrew Burnap) agree to take care of her husband's recently
>> widowed stepmother (Kathryn Hunter from "Andor").  At first the husband
>> warns that his stepmother is evil, but Brandy ignores him until she
>> moves in and weird things start to happen.  I went into this expecting a
>> horror movie similar to "Rosemary's Baby" or "The Skeleton Key" but was
>> very disappointed that when it was all said and done, and as far as I
>> can tell, there was zero supernatural events in this movie.  I kept
>> waiting for something supernatural to happen, and it never did.  I guess
>> the movie is OK even without a supernatural twist.  Fans of "Andor" will
>> want to watch for Kathryn Hunter, pretty much playing the same role in
>> this movie that she plays in "Andor."
> 
> It's just an elaborate mother-in-law gag?


I kind of got the feeling the original script/ movie did have a 
supernatural angle.  The movie really felt like a remake of Rosemary's 
Baby, where maybe the husband wasn't in on it.  I was positive the evil 
stepmother was trying to put her soul in the baby's body.  There are 
several scenes that imply that's what's going on.  Then for whatever 
reason they reshot the ending to remove the supernatural element.  But 
that's just a guess.

There was something that could be considered a twist.

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