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tonight's feature: The Yellow Wallpaper (2021) on Prime
SPOILERS(?) Not really sure how to describe this film version of The Yellow Wallpaper. I guess for starters it's a massively influential early feminist story from 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that illustrates the oppressive nature of the patriarchal society of the time. But as a film, it's just almost entirely oppressive and bleak and nearly unwatchable. The movie is listed as a horror film but the only real horror here is sitting through a solid hour and 39 minutes of a depressed woman getting more depressed and going insane because of it.
The Yellow Wallpaper is an excruciatingly tedious and unpleasant experience and it took everything I had to get through it. It was an epic endurance test, like watching someone slowly peeling wallpaper, which is exactly what happens for the last 10 minutes or so. Maybe I'm SUPPOSED to feel like this after watching, in which case, they nailed it. Otherwise, if you're looking for something frightful for the Halloween season, look elsewhere. If you must watch it, bring a pillow. For all it's worth, I give The Yellow Wallpaper 3 remote country estates out of 10.
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