Grimcutty, on Hulu
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This came out in October 2022, and at the time I decided not to watch it. But I changed my mind in September 2024, and gave it a try. And... I don't think it was bad. It wasn't really good, either. It was just sort of okay.

There's a teenage girl named Asha Chaudhry, who lives with her parents, Leah (Shannyn Sossamon) and Amir, and her little brother, Kamran (Callan Farris, whom I knew from Gabby Duran and the Unsittables). But before we meet any of them, there's a scene with a woman named Melinda Jaynes, a mommy blogger who is obviously very worried about what sorts of things her young son might find online. And then, her son ends up stabbing her.

Not long after that, Asha's parents learn about a viral meme or something, called Grimcutty, which has apparently caused a number of kids to cut themselves or even try to kill themselves. So they take away their kids' phones and laptops, to protect them. But this monster starts appearing to Asha, and at a couple of points in the film cuts her, but her parents believe she's cut herself, because they can't see the monster. Asha, who is apparently just getting started with an ASMR vlog, begins talking with a more established vlogger named Cassidy Johnston, who knows a bit about Grimcutty. They go to a friend's house to use his computer, and find information about Melinda, whose blog had given lots of parents the idea for locking up phones and computers so kids couldn't use them. And then Asha gets Kamran, who somehow has a secret laptop, to find Melinda's address, so Asha can go there and ask her directly about Grimcutty. Melinda doesn't want to talk to Asha, but Asha figures out that Grimcutty attacks kids whenever their parents are panicking about the meme.

That's all I really want to say about the plot. I think it's vaguely interesting to sort of turn the tables on parental concerns about their kids' online activities, and make that very concern the source of the problem. But at the same time, it's not a very good moral, because in real life parents are often right to be concerned. (Some may take that concern a bit too far, but still.) Anyway... the monster itself is reasonably scary, and the fact that Asha's parents don't believe her, and even begin to question her sanity, is also pretty scary. So I guess the movie is successful at doing at least part of what it's trying to do. But it's still kind of ridiculous. I don't regret having watched it, though.