The Rule of Jenny Pen

This movie is weird and gross at times but I laughed quite a bit and overall enjoyed it.

3.9 - Had to break the hot streak eventually.

This just doesn’t have much going for it outside John Lithgow acting fully unhinged & Geoffrey Rush providing a decent foil.

It never fully commits to its psych horror elements. It leaves a few unanswered or at least unsatisfactorily answered questions. It never takes its geronotophobic angles to their limits (think The Front Room). What little it does have, that pulled me in early, fizzles by the second half & then drags on down the stretch.

It’s just some mildly gross & some mildly creepy. And it’s all too easily solved if even one worker did like 20% better at their jobs.

It’s not a bad movie overall, but the script felt weak and the slow pacing made it hard to stay engaged

It’s not a bad movie overall, but the script felt weak and the slow pacing made it hard to stay engaged

The entire movie I kept thinking how is it possible that such institution doesn’t have a couple of cameras outside and in the main corridors. This could’ve been solved easily watching the camera footage. I understand the message of the movie but it’s quite the plot hole.

probably the weirdest movie I’ve ever seen and i’ve said that about a lot of movies but this one takes the cake. nothing is really explained it’s just weird and crazy and gross and kinda sad to watch tbh