Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.
Acting
Octavia Spencer's deliciously unhinged, awards-worthy villain turn.
Direction
Tate Taylor pivots from The Help to full psychological horror.
Writing
The script knows exactly how absurd it is and leans in hard.
Director
Tate Taylor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Octavia Spencer pitched this to Blumhouse herself after wanting to play a villain who subverts the 'magical Black woman' trope.
The film deliberately weaponizes the 'helpful Black neighbor' archetype from Spencer's earlier roles, making audiences complicit in their own genre expectations.
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