If You care about putting little thought in it, You may find that it doesn't demonize mentally ill people generally. It demonizes murderous psychopaths. And murderous psychopaths truly are quite a demonic crowd.
If we would follow Your vision, we could not make films (fiction or documentary) about serial killers at all, because any person who is serial killer, is mentally dysfunctional.
I also hate how Paranormal Activity demonizes demons.
shareWould you say 'Halloween' demonised mental illness with its portrayal of Michael Myers?
I'm guessing not.
There is a HUGE and VAST spectrum of mental illness and this film falls into the crazed killer category. There's no demonisation of the mental illnesses that 1 in 3 of us struggle with every day.
It's a horror trope. Let's not single this movie out when there's been a million+ movies before it that do the same thing.
Also, not ALL mentally ill people are scary - and the movie never says different - but some genuinely are... so where is the misrepresentation or lie? There isn't one.
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
It's a common theme in horror films and stories. It isn't "demonizing" anybody.
This special snowflake generation gets offended by everything. Must suck going trough life constantly looking for things to complain about, even if they have to invent them.
Demonising two mentally ill people - not all of them.
Do the P-I-G-E-O-N
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Demonizing mentally ill people
I thought this movie was very average and the twist was a let down.However NONE of the issues that I have with the movie is related to mentally ill people being the bad guys.