#grimcutty

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Wanted to see a horror movie. Watched Grimcutty. Wasn't surprised to see it got low reviews. Was surprised that not even tumblr enjoyed it.

I thought it was a pretty good take on misinformed moral panics over non-existent internet trends. Not to be that person but I feel like a fair amount of people who watched it, like... almost got the point but missed it at the last minute.

(Some people who watched it REALLY missed the point. I saw one reviewer who claimed the point of the movie is that the internet is terrible and dangerous and everyone would be better off without it. That's like saying the message of Dracula is that we should donate blood to Transylvanian counts.)

Nearly every point I've seen someone go "X was so cringe" about was something I'm pretty sure was cringe on purpose. "The name is stupid, it sounds like a shitty creepypasta" yeah, the name isn't supposed to sound like a good creepypasta, it's supposed to sound like what the most credulous, out-of-touch, & paranoid parents think a creepypasta is. It's supposed to sound like the kind of strawman boogeyman that conservative mommybloggers imagine is peer pressuring their kids to do stupid shit.

You're not supposed to be scared of the monster. You're supposed to be scared of anyone who tells you you should be scared of the monster. You're supposed to hear its name and go "god, pff, wow, really? who could take that seriously? ... what the fuck do you mean parents are taking it seriously"

And the monster was cute. C'mon. Come on now. This is the site for people who look at tall pallid gangly wide-grinned fang-toothed serial-killing monsters and go "heyyy~ ❤️" The monster is cute.

Saw reviewers say it looks like a mix between Slenderman, Ryuk, and Momo like that's a bad thing.

Grimcutty was fun. This is a hill I'm willing to die on. I will fistfight the rotten tomatoes audience score in a denny's parking lot.

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Decided to draw Grimcutty like how he's depicted in the movie, but strayed away in terms of body shape to at least make him appealing to my eyes, hope you like this freak of a... Well, freak.

Here's the original image I took the palette from.

He's just a goofy lil' guy, he may have cut the MC's wrist but he's still a goofy goober.

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Probably the best movie review I ever posted on the Letterboxd app.

My magnum opus.

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binging Hulu horror movies bc I have nothing better to do so do yall have any recommendations???

currently watching Willys Wonderland and already watched The Boogeyman and Grimcutty

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Me, watching Grimcutty: :)

Grimcutty: *appears*

Me: You're my friend now, we're having soft tacos later!

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Horror Movie Review: Grimcutty (2022)

Grimcutty is an odd film. In that it seems to think it is saying something important and profound but does so in the most clichéd ways possible.

Grimcutty is an odd film. In that it seems to think it is saying something important and profound but does so in the most clichéd ways possible. There’s nothing original about utilising urban legends to tell a horror story, even when you update it to showcase an over-reliance on technology. Yes, that’s Grimcutty’s big thing. Attempting to tell a nuanced story about online obsession, internet…

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Today's Film-A-Day is the 2022 shitshow known as "Grimcutty."

From start to finish this was just crap. From the shitty acting to the shitty take on the Momo creepypasta. It was fun to make fun of though lol

Here's my take on Grimcutty

Fun-A-Day 1/8/2025

"Creepycutty"

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Grimcutty (2022) 🍕

To be fair, there’s some relatable content here, like the kid going nuts when the phone is taken and the whispering in the YouTube videos that will absolutely drive you batshit insane.

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Grimcutty: Directed by John Ross. With Shannyn Sossamon, Sara Wolfkind, Usman Ally, Callan Farris. A suburban teen girl and her little brother must stop a terrifying internet meme brought to life by the hysteria of their parents.

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Why do I headcanon Grimcutty and M3GAN being friends?

BECAUSE IT’S FUN-

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Reblogging from a stranger (hey there) because this is nearabout the only post on the site praising this movie.

it kind of feels like he knows he looks a little silly, and is almost reveling in his ability to strike fear into the protagonist despite that. His design also just feels… online weird, which is perfect for what he represents.

That's one of the most common critiques I've seen of Grimcutty, that it looks kinda silly, not really scary. And I agree, that's part of the point. It's scary like a viral amateur faux found footage youtube channel is scary, scary like an over-the-top creepypasta is scary—and frequently, that means "not actually that scary at all," it's just a face photoshopped to have a creepy grin and big eyes and a dramatic story that boils down to "just TRUST me bro, this thing is SO SCARY, you'll go INSANE for looking at it." Grimcutty's not designed to be the kind of creepypasta that keeps you up at 3 a.m., it's designed to be the kind of creepypasta that starts with a couple friends laughing and going "hey wouldn't it be super fucked up if—"

It lopes around in an odd herky-jerky way not because that's actually scary, but because that's how monsters like Grim are supposed to move, like a lo-fi knock-off of a Japanese horror movie ghost. It looks unconvincing because it was probably born in a 14-year-old's pirated copy of photoshop. It bops around carrying a big-ass knife because that what monsters like it are supposed to carry (just ask Jeff the Killer!) and while it's building up to the real kill it just sort of slashes you and leaves because that's the kind of nonsensical thing creatures like it do in stories like this as the tension builds. It operates not on a logic of "what would be the most sensible action for a monster that's trying to kill you to take," but on the logic of "what would be the most freaky thing it could do from the victim's POV?"

And another common critique that hasn't come up on this post yet: that we see Grimcutty too often, and that lowers the scare factor, we should see it less. First: I like that freak's goofy face so I'm glad we get to see it so much. Second: its not-quite-convincing appearance is part of what fits it into the DIY creepypasta aesthetic, and the more often we see it, the more the intentionality of its not-quite-convincing-ness shines through.

And third: this is a story about who can see the reality of Grimcutty and who can't. For that to work, the people who can see it have to SEE it. "Hide a monster to make it scarier" works for horror movies operating on the fear of the unknown. But the thing about Grimcutty is that it is known, its victims understand it and what it is and how it works—and knowledge won't save them. The more clearly you understand/see Grimcutty, the more you realize that you're still helpless to it as long as there are still other people who don't see it.

If you were making a movie about a character tied to a train track, you wouldn't make it scarier by not showing the train. You have to show the train, barreling toward the character, coming closer, and there's nothing they can do to get out of its way. Grimcutty is the train. You're not safe if you can see it. It's still chugging toward you, and it's your dad who can't see the train and thinks you laid on the tracks on a dare who holds the lever to switch the train to another track.

CW this post will discuss self harm and contain spoilers for the movie Grimcutty

Wanted to scroll a movie tag so I could vibe with what I presumed would be a really enthusiastic tumblr community but all I got was a bunch of ppl being stupid and dumb and most of all utterly devoid of whimsy smh

Anywaaay for all its flaws Grimcutty is a fuckin awesome movie if you ask me

Is it stupid? Oh fuck yeah

Is it entertaining? Absolutely

Does it have good representation? Shockingly enough yeah actually which was really refreshing to see in such a genre especially considering no one died except for the [extremely White tm] mommy blogger

The movie centers around the premise of an internet scary image challenge [reminiscent of the Momo Challenge and Creepypasta stories such as Smile.jpg from when I was in school] that causes “screen addicted” children to act out violently through manners of self harm, suicide, and even murder. What makes this movie interesting is that in some sense the fear parents feel is very real, as it is the mass paranoia and hysteria surrounding this meme known as the Grimcutty Challenge that causes it to appear.

Even ignoring everything else the concept of monsters that feed on fear is not new, but that doesn’t make it less interesting. Grimcutty however flips the traditional sense of the trope on its head: it’s not your own fear that gets you hurt, it’s the obsessive worry of others. The more you worry about someone committing to the challenge the more the entity will target them. Which all on its own is fascinating.

Most complaints I’ve seen are quick to write the movie off for its narrative decision to use these internet challenges and memes as the catalyst of the story; the people complaining are not considering the point of horror media, in my opinion, when they do this. For as long as it has existed the purpose of fearful stories and horrific tales is to exaggerate real problems. While the issues presented in the movie may not be as prevalent as they were when I was younger they were still very much real.

I remember being in school and hearing kids complain about limited access to devices at home due to their parents catching wind of things like the Momo Challenge. More than that however I remember the wave of paranoia that followed the very real Slenderman Stabbings that occurred in 2014. Even my own parents, who generally tend to stay level headed and rational, had a few worried conversations about what had happened at the time, knowing my sibling and I were fans of the stories that made up Creepypasta at the time. It was such a powerful event that it legitimately changed the entirety of my school’s social landscape, no one was permitted to use the computer labs for about two weeks, an assembly about it was hosted, and a lot of kids had their schools changed. The event had happened over 2,000 miles [about 3,218 kilometers] from my home and yet the fear that parents felt was so real that even my classmates were afraid of anyone who was known to enjoy those stories.

Grimcutty takes that sort of hysteria around things like that and turns it up to eleven, and it does everything right by doing so. While the teens in the movie are clearly written by people who aren’t 100% in on current youth culture it makes them no less relatable overall. The main character, Asha, is reasonably desperate to find a way to bring her situation to a halt, and her peers are frustrated, outraged at times even, at the older generation’s fixation on fear. Parents will worry, and kids will find it annoying, but this movie does a good job of showing how bad things can get when both sides refuse to listen to the feelings of the other. Overprotective parents with a platform from which to speak are often the sort of force that sparks such hysterics and panics in communities, a single seed of doubt is all that ever really needs to be planted.

The movie itself is well made overall, it was by no means perfect but it did its job and told its story quite nicely. It helps to have people to watch it with, though as a fan of live commentating my thoughts while watching things I am a bit biased. While the emotions and situations are exaggerated for the sake of theatrics it does well not to lead into the drop off point of unbelievable, especially to someone like me who was a kid when these fears were big amongst parents. It held its tension well and was genuinely terrifying at times, a good balance of pacing and energy. Much like It Follows and Smile it handles the moments of calm between attacks well without letting the fear and suspense completely dissipate, more often than not even making it worse by leaving characters blindly too calm and unaware of their surroundings.

Overall I’m thoroughly disappointed in the platform that truly helped nourish and create the Creepypasta community back in the day for dismissing a movie that captures the very real backlash received for such things at the time. With that said I highly encourage checking it out for the love of all things horror, so be advised however about the subject matter, I would recommend reading its warnings on Does the Dog Die for preparation.

Anyway if you actually bothered to read this far you deserve a treat so here is a picture of my cat

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SUMMARY: A suburban teen girl and her little brother must stop a terrifying internet meme brought to life by the hysteria of their parents.

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