Kryptic (2024)

Premise: So picture this: you’re walking through the woods, there’s no one around and your phone is dead. Out of the corner of your eye, y- oh… Oh I see. Okay so this is a movie where a woman who was looking for a cryptid and found amnesia is now looking for her own identity. Sort of. What she finds will surprise you!

Under 90 minutes? Nah, fifteen minutes over that.
Do they say the title? Not exactly, I think.

First thing I thought of:

Okay, more: Yeah, so this is an oozefest of a psychological/body horror movie (laudatory). It is, very very faithful to its title, pretty cryptic at times, it really does not want to give you way too easy a ride and it feels like one of those anxiety dreams where things almost make sense, but they don’t, really, and it is pretty oppressive because of exactly that.
Or, if you prefer, it’s like your favourite song, but the otamatone cover. It’s almost there, but it is also sorta off in a way that you can’t really describe.
Anyhoo, I liked it a lot, was very intrigued, the husband character seriously creeped me out. Maybe at times would have preferred a slightly easier to follow narrative, but, you know. Along for the ride, babeh.

A simple way to improve it: I like that this movie knows it can get very gross and have jizz all over the place all the time, just like on the previously reviewed Girl on the Third Floor. I feel that we should get over the taboo of having really disgusting body fluids on screen and instead we should, just like this film does, comment on how it smells (bad) and how it feels (sticky. okay, well, and more stuff). Yes, I consider myself an intellectual.

Trivia about the IMDb trivia movie tags:

I invite you to not only check the tags for this movie, but maybe specially the votes. Yeah.