You Should Have Left

Welcome to Satanists on Cinema. We are your hosts Satanist Cameron John and Reverend Campbell. Satanists on Cinema is a film review and commentary series that is delivered without blinking. It’s kinda creepy. We reserve our bed and breakfast online, curl up under the covers with our laptop resting on our chests and we slowly descend into madness, traveling both space and time to reveal the ins and outs of a film. Welcome to our review of You Should Have Left.

Discussion

• Log Line: A former banker, his actress wife, and their spirited daughter book a vacation at an isolated modern home in the Welsh countryside where nothing is quite as it seems.
• 2020 American psychological horror film written and directed by David Koepp, based on the 2017 book of the same name by Daniel Kehlmann.
• released digitally via video on demand on June 18, 2020, by Universal Pictures.
• Koepp and Bacon had previously collaborated on the 1999 film Stir of Echoes.
• Filming took place at various locations in Wales, including at the Life House in Llanbister, Radnorshire
• The film’s score was composed by Geoff Zanelli.
• Budget $5 million
• Shot in 2018, finished in March 2019, delayed for reshoots
• 26 days of shooting with 4 days of reshoots
• 8 hallways and 30 doorways in the house
• Shot in  New Jersey
• Kevin and David were looking for another collaboration since Stir of Echoes, and they began brainstorming when the novella was released and Kevin read it.
• The novella is the diary of a screenwriter attempting to write a sequel, Besties 2, to follow his earlier success, Besties. He is on a deadline for the production studio and includes events from his daily life in his screenplay.
• The Brooklyn Rail called the novel “a masterful experiment about the limits of literary realism.” and credited Kehlmann’s use of unreliable first-person narration.
• Unreliable narrator carried through in the film
• Theo said he paid a steep price and everything came easy, alluding to selling his soul, so he is trapped by the devil
• Both Theo and Susanna claim to have received the B&B listing from eachother
• Susanna said he has a lot of catholic guilt from school
• He stayed in his first marriage, till death, and made the choice to leave his second marriage which was as toxic

Cast

• Kevin Bacon – Theo / Stetler
• Amanda Seyfried – Susanna
• Avery Tiiu Essex – Ella (as Avery Essex)

Links

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8201852/
  • 5.3/10 stars
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Should_Have_Left
• https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/you_should_have_left
  • 46% Rotten with a 28% audience score

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