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Jonathan M @RT75554236 1 day ago I really like Mike Flanagan, and you can feel his influence in most of what works for this movie. But I just feel like the story itself was a bit boring and predictable. Great actors and performances, great atmosphere and tension, just not a good enough story. Also, I didn't know it was based on a Steven King novel until afterwards, but it makes total sense because I feel like Steven King is terrible with endings; and this movie has a pretty bad ending. It's watchable, just nothing great. See more Marco L @decatur555 Oct 22, 2026 A solid and entertaining Stephen King adaptation built from an almost impossible premise: a woman handcuffed to a bed in an isolated house after a sexual game goes terribly wrong. What works best is not the usual horror, but the psychological trap. Jessie cannot move, cannot call for help and begins to confront memories, guilt and trauma she had buried for years. Carla Gugino is excellent and carries the film almost entirely on her own, making fear, exhaustion, rage and survival feel real. Bruce Greenwood also works as a psychological presence, turning Gerald into more than a dead husband. Mike Flanagan handles the confined tension well, and the most physically brutal scene really hurts because it comes after so much pressure. It is not perfect: some symbols are overexplained, and the ending loses some mystery by closing too many pieces too clearly. Still, it has tension, personality and images that stay with you. See more SIMAS C @simas_eros Oct 19, 2026 Based on a book by Stephen King, this psychological horror film poses the question: what would happen if, suddenly—during a kinky encounter where one person is handcuffed—the other person were to have a heart attack? It is a simple premise that fuels a tense plot, taking us on a frightening yet fascinating mental journey into the realm of relationships and temptation. See more Ry N @RyGuy Oct 15, 2026 A couple tries to spice up their relationship with handcuffs when the husband has a heart attack. This is a pretty basic plot until they throw in a mental breakdown with a starving dog and the Moonlight Man. See more Phil P @Pmpope71 Oct 12, 2026 So I watched this following all the positive recommendations on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a genuinely terrible movie. There was zero setting at the outset to place the characters, they just drove, walked into a house leaving the front door open and he chained her to the bed. No character development other than her inability to identify a very expensive steak that she wanted to feed to a stray dog. She they almost immediately starts [Spoiler Alert] hallucinating (i.e. within hours of her husband dying but only moments within the movie). Then she sees herself talking to the hallucination of her husband and they all start having a 3 way chat. I'm all for suspending my disbelief, but throw me a bone here... the backstory was feeble, her husband was clearly an oaf and she was certifiable. I felt for the poor dog. A waste of 2 hours. How this got 90% rating on this app I'll never know. See more Teddy B @RT90521672 Oct 12, 2026 Absolutely blows the admittedly sluggish, inconsistent and boring, if admirable and well-written, book out of the water, Flanagan handles this story with an incredible balance tenderness and terror, physical and mental horror to make it a modern King classic. It doesn't suffer the unfortunate visual pitfalls of Flanagan's lineup, showing a distinctly mean and visceral personality that adds a welcome layer of unreality to this clever story. See more Read all reviews

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