Reviewing Movies that Molly-Mae and Maura Higgins Hate.

Molly Mae and Maura Higgins, Love Island alumni, recently came under fire on Twitter for expressing their distaste for two critically acclaimed A24 films: Midsommar and Saint Maud. Twitter users and film fans were shocked and outraged that a reality TV star held an opinion that they deemed wrong or ‘dumb’. Mae called Saint Maud ‘terrible’, while Higgins referred to Midsommar  as ‘SHITTTT.’

 

As we all know, Love Island stars are known for their taste and keen eye for culture, and so when these young influencers – who, at the end of the day, just want to post pretty Instagrams of their dinner and continue to go on holidays during a worldwide pandemic – expressed these opinions, people were horrified. For some reason.

 

And so, I decided to see what all the fuss was about, sitting down to watch Saint Maud (having already seen Midsommar) so that I could bring about a bite-sized review of each film and prove these girls wrong, giving me the superiority complex that so many Twitter users are desperate for.

 

(I actually really like Maura and Molly.)

 

MIDSOMMAR

As a huge fan of Hereditary, I was absolutely buzzing to watch Midsommar. Especially when I learned that the guy who plays the shitty boyfriend is the same kid from the famous Irish milk ad, ‘Them bones need calcium’. 

The acting in this film was incredible, and although it didn’t quite live up to the unbelievable standard set by Hereditary (which, in my opinion, is a master piece) it still had a very unique, creepy atmosphere and sense of dread, which is impressively well executed in a very bright and colourful environment. My favourite scene in this film is the ‘Ättestupa’, or any moment where Florence Pugh is screaming. She reaches near Sarah Paulson levels of impressive, terrifying screaming in this film. 8/10.

 

 

SAINT MAUD

Saint Maud is a film that, surprisingly, I’d never heard of until now. So thank you Molly Mae. The film centres on Maud, who is charged with caring for a retired dancer called Amanda who is terminally ill. Maud believes that God has appointed her to save Amanda’s soul to damnation, leading to incredibly creepy scenes in which Morfydd Clark excels at playing a whackjob. In all seriousness, this film was terrifying and is one of my new favourite psychological horrors. 

Any sort of religious-based horror is always ten times scarier for some reason, and director Rose Glass executed an incredibly impressive debut with this film. The rotting backdrop and stellar performances are enough to make me want to sit down and watch it again already. It is definitely not ‘terrible’.

 

And so, if I’ve learned anything, it’s that we shouldn’t take film opinions from Love Island stars quite so seriously. If anything, because it’s their opinion, and at the end of the day, who actually cares?