Oh My Horror 2025 | 48/52 | Horny Horror
Heyo, boobs. Boobs, babe. There's boobs.
The camera peeks through the window of a lingerie shop, where, through a parted curtain, we see Pippa trying on a lace bodysuit. She realizes we’re watching and closes the curtain. This is the most subtle the movie gets.
Pippa gleefully brings her purchase to her new apartment with her partner, Thomas. That night, while settling in, they look across the way and see a photoshoot in the building. The photographer, whom they call Brent, and his partner, whom they call Pippa, start to have sex, and Pippa and Thomas can see the whole thing. Pippa pulls Thomas away, feeling wrong about watching.
Pippa tries to entice Thomas with her lingerie purchase, but Thomas passes out. She tries to explain the experience with their neighbors to her friend, Ari, but Ari believes that they should’ve stayed to watch. One night, Pippa sees Brent standing at the window in his underwear. She finds herself drawn to his chisled physique and vascular arms.
Passing a vintage shop, she spots a pair of binoculars and brings them home for her and Thomas to spy through. Thomas sees a model he saw at the fashion shoot earlier. Not Margot. Brent seems to coerce this model into having sex with him. Pippa lets Thomas keep watching through the binoculars while she gives him a reach-around. He then fucks Pippa from behind while she watches the couple across the way do the same, imagining it’s Brent behind her, not Thomas.
Pippa and Thomas share their observations with friends, speculating on the lives of these neighbors. Pippa grows more enraptured with the watching. When she discovers that Thomas inexplicably knows how to build an amplifier with a laser pointer that lets them hear their neighbors’ conversations, her curiosity puts her in a position where she feels she must intervene.
What? This can't actually work!
Justice Smith and Sydney Sweeney have no chemistry. At first, I was put off by it, but I see how the movie uses that to its advantage.
The film begins as a metaphor for how social media makes us all voyeurs. The windows we clearly see into are screens, giving us our perception of an ideal life and people happily living it. Pippa and Thomas are trying a social media break to improve their sex life — they trade one screen for another. These false sense of intimacy makes us feel like we know strangers, and we invest in their lives more than our own. Don’t worry — it is far from subtle.
Like director Michael Mohan’s movie, Immaculate, I’m probably overrating this. But I appreciate a movie that knows what it is and goes to ludicrous (dare I say, trashy?) places with its concept. What can I say? The film is entertaining and total nonsense.
Stray Thoughts / Spoilers
- Why does Amazon Prime say this movie is for “young adult audiences”?
- Okay, this Angel Olsen cover of “Eyes without a Face” is a bop.
- The eyeball/egg smash cut!
- Ugh, we have to hear Thomas making beats for commercials, and it’s so corny. It’s for an E.D. commercial!
- Whoa, Brent is an S+ gaslighter and abuser.
- Portishead is so on the nose, I love it
- Could be more liberal with the dick shots, but they’re there!
- Oh my god, this movie is so stupid, hahahah