Just saw it...People will probably hate it due to marketing

I would not say a thriller. It just moves pretty slow and there are very unsettling moments, but it only really turns into a horror film in the last 15 minutes. It also has an ending that is a head scratching more in terms of "okay...and is there anything else" rather than "interesting, I never thought of something this way before". Again, not a bad film, just be prepared that it is not purely a horror film and it relies heavily on symbolism.

I was aware it would be different since it came from A24 (they actually put out original and vastly entertaining movies). Also it is from Garland (EX Machina and Annihilation). So I took this all in to account before watching it. I really enjoyed The Witch because it had genuine creepy scenes and an uneasiness throughout, that kept me enthralled about where it would go. This film is not a mainstream horror film like Insidious and The Conjuring (I was not expecting it to be), but if you take out the last 15 minutes of the movie it would not be a horror film at all. So, I think they were having trouble marketing it and emphasized the horror aspect. I remember seeing Mother! in theatres and not liking it (not because it was not a horror film, but because the metaphor was obvious, the movie pretentious, and terrible acting from Lawrence in the main role). I was too young when Eyes Wide Shut came out to remember any trailers for it. I saw it in College and thought it was excellent. They actually marketed it as a pop sex thriller? Wow! LOL.

This is hilariously false. If they market a rom-com as a horror movie, and people are put off and trash it after walking out of the theater, they have NOT "done their job." The phrase "bait and switch" is apropos.

"Doing your job" would entail enticing people to go see the movie In Good Faith. Bait and switch techniques only piss off customers, and (incidentally) ignore the *actual* market for the movie.

Simple concepts.

I know they are there to sell the movie, that is why it is called marketing. They did there job, but it was in more of a dishonest way of marketing a fraction of what the movie actually is. Also it is an A24 movie by Alex Garland, I knew what I was getting myself into. Also read my original post, I did not complain about anything, I am just informing people of what the movie actually is instead of what was marketed. Maybe understand my post instead of replying back with a snarky reply.

Well, I did not see it as a woke film. The couple in their twenties who were sitting near me talked to me a little after the movie ended. I asked them what they thought of it and the guy said he saw it as "a male director who wanted to make a feminist movie, but knew nothing about women." I can easily see why people would see it as a "woke" or "feminist" film. The movie is more complicated than that. Without giving spoilers away I would have to say No.

MAJOR SPOLIERS AHEAD:hello

All the male characters in the movie except Harper's dead husband are played by the same actor: Rory Kinnear. They look different based on cgi and make-up (he even plays a teenager), but they are meant to represent Harper's fragile mindset and her unfinished and damaged relationship with her husband. So while all the men in the movie are "bad people" they are all technically the same person.

The other women in the movie: her best friend and one female cop are seen in a positive light. The best friend because she is obviously the main character's closest relationship and the female cop because she arrests the naked male stocker in the movie and seems very sympathetic to Harper and what she just encountered.

Major SPOLIERS OVER.

So I hope that helps clarify why people may think the way they do about the movie. Obviously people who have greatly divided opinions on the movie, but it is anything but a normal movie. Like it or love it, this will be a movie that will stick out this year for being something different. That being said Cinemascore gave it a D+ (they give surveys out to moviegoers during the early showing of the film's first week to see what the average audience member though about the film). Most movies get around a B or better (Jack and Jill got an A!). So that will give you an idea of what audiences thought about the movie.