This movie nearly made me shit myself, ngl. I love going into movies blind, so I never read the premise if I can help it. Based on the title alone, I was like, “Oh, this is probably gonna be some weird, twisted romance.” Technically… I wasn’t wrong. Just catastrophically underestimating how twisted we were talking. The movie starts off with the group’s friendship, and it’s honestly so fun and warm that you can’t help but root for them. They’re so comfortable with each other, and the chemistry feels genuine. Then someone decides to be an absolute coward, and that’s where everything starts going downhill. Nikki is great at first. Cool, charming, easy to like. But the second Bear’s wish kicks in? Girl started activating every survival instinct in my body. The beginning of their relationship had me thinking, “Aw, this is cute. What could possibly go wrong?” Then the restaurant date happened, and I was immediately like, oh. OH NO. From that point onward, this movie just bullied me for the rest of its runtime. I was scared, stressed, screaming (my sincerest apologies to everyone else in the theater), and sitting there with my shoulders permanently glued to my ears. The tension is unreal. The lighting? Sick. The atmosphere? Absolutely rancid (complimentary). But. DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THE STOP-MOTION MOVEMENT. Whoever came up with that deserves both a raise and jail time because WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT???? I don’t think I’ll ever recover. Also, Sarah deserved so much better. She was genuinely one of my favorite characters, and everything that happened to her just made me feel physically weak. “I was to your left.” …and Nikki suddenly on her left too. Bear opened Luther’s letter and found out Sarah had actually been accepted there… yeah, thanks movie, as if I wasn’t suffering enough already. 5/5, would willingly traumatize myself again.