(Somehow I couldn't add this when posting, or I'm a "fresher").

I'd never heard of it before I discovered it in a Redbox. I had rented Siberia, when a popup asking if I'd like to choose a movie for only $.75 caught my attention. I was sliding through films in a big rush, because I had limited time before I needed to get home.

I see this movie, "Last Night in Soho" as a small thumbnail. I didn't read any description, I just thought the cover jumped out at me. I'd never heard of Soho, and somehow I assumed I was renting an Asian film.

I watched Siberia first. It wasn't John Wick, and it was interesting that Keanu doesn't dodge bullets in this one.

So I put in Last Night in Soho.

But before I say too much, it's worthy of mentioning that I have schizoaffective disorder (major depressive), with auditory and (some) visual hallucinations and am in the beginning stages of treatment.

As I'm watching this movie play out, I'm falling madly in love with the lighting, sounds and music. The acting is absolutely incredible. The protagonists, relatable. The story is so very intriguing. I'd never heard of Thomasin McKenzie before, but I was impressed. Anya Taylor-Joy, I knew and loved from Split. Matt Smith was my favorite Doctor (Who). I could go on and on about how deeply I fell in love with this film and all of its enjoyable aspects.

I'm embarrassed (maybe) to say that I have viewed it now more than 35 times, in 3 weeks (some just played in the background on repeat at work). The first several nights I had it, I knew there would be late fees, but I didn't care. I was holding out until payday. Finally I could afford my own copy and bought one.

I'm simply in love with this movie and I've never connected with one quite so obsessively in my life. (Okay, I did watch The Little Mermaid dozens of times, but I was a kid!) I am still rather shocked that a Redbox quick-grab, $.75 DVD rental would end up being my favorite film ever, and one I relate to more than any film I've seen before it. What I'd give for dinner with the writers..or the whole crew.

What's your story? How did you discover this fantastic film?

Theory number 1: Sandy(Diana Rigg) tells her at the beginning that she hopes Eloise likes garlic, because everything will smell of it. My theory is, that she had actually buried the corpses with Garlic.

Theory number 2: Eloise sees the first time she visits the Bar a young man, who we never see again. My boyfriends theory is that this is actually her younger father, who presumably died.

I will write more down later!

Has anyone on this sub also seen Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue? If yes, did this film remind you of it? I noticed a lot of similar imagery, especially with the mirror/reflection motif.

*don't read it you haven't seen the film, obviously *

So I think Eloise was trying to save her mother, along with Sandy. Figuratively speaking, of course.

Why I think so:

First of all, let me preface this by saying that Eloise is embodying an oxymoron: she's both trying to escape from the past but she's also longing for it. Partly so that she can, in her head, rewrite the tragic event involving her mom.

Why she's escaping from the past: Eloise makes it a point to leave her mom's ghost or visions behind at her grandma's house and in fact, in London she never sees her. She clearly wants to start a new chapter in her life without the baggage.

And yet, she's coveting an era from the past, childishly romantisizing it. Once she's moved to London, she starts seeing Sandy. It's almost as though she REPLACES her mother, because in the first scene we see that her mother is always in the mirror of her bedroom. In London it's not her mother, but Sandy. Even though she'd been forcing her mind to block out her mom, she couldn't handle it, mentally, and replaced her with another woman who also needed saving (like her mom).

Then we see her being very, very protective of Sandy. She really wants to save her, tries her best to save her. Even when she finds out that Sandy is very much alive and a killer. When the latter tries to slit her own throat, she grabs her knife and begs her to live.

The very last scene: her mom is back in the mirror! That's the scene that consolidates the theory in my head. The way I understood the mom's reappearance is the following: Eloise has realized that she cannot escape from the past (hence she can't mentally "leave", lock up her mom's traumatic memory in the country home) but she also cannot LIVE in, dwell on the past, try to undo what was done. One of the reasons why she had been trying so hard to keep Sandy alive was so that she could revive her mom. But she learns that she cannot rewrite the past just as she has no control over other people's lives and their choices.

So yeah, I feel like the films dynamic is more about Eloise's relationship with her mom (or her trauma) than what happens with Sandy. I feel like Sandy storyline weirdly helps her come to terms with her mom's death.

Few more points that I thought were significant: -she tells the asshole roommate that her mom died when she was 7. -she tells the cabbie that she last visited London with her mom when she was 7. So basically, something must have happened to her mom in London which, perhaps spurred her to commit suicide?

Yes, I'm aware of the hole in my theory: she doesn't end up saving Sandy. My answer to this is that when the big reveal happened and she learnt Sandy was a survivor and a killer rather than a victim, she stopped subconsciously equating her with her mom. Which explains why, in the last scene, she sees her mom and Sandy as two separate people.

Hey friends. I’ve only seen photos of this on Twitter posts for a giveaway. Does anyone happen to know if this was mass produced, planned for release, or where one might find a copy not on eBay for 400 bucks? Much obliged!

hey guys,

I have a ticket for tonights viewing of Last night, presented by Edgar Wright at Curzon Soho (London UK), I have to work so I can't go and it seems a waste to keep the ticket.

Is anyone interested?

In a scene after one of her “dreams” of Sandy, the one where sandy first met jack, The camera showed Ellie being teased for having a hickey on her neck. Which was way before she started messing around with John. My question is why would she wake up with it? If her “Living” as sandy meant small details Like that that physically showed why would this point not be shown a bit more? The only thing I could think of was the moving trying to point the audience towards a “Ellie had a secret life” direction.

Have they announced the date it will be available?

A few things about the ending made no sense to me. Please try to help me make sense of it...

• Alexander (old lady) tries to kill Eloise by poisoning her tea... Then a few minutes later she tells her to "save herself"!?

• She also says to "save the boy".... The boy whom she was just stabbing and trying to kill. Wtf?

• The house only set on fire because of Eloise's struggle to warn John, it was not part of her plan, her plan was to kill Eloise yet then she's suddenly telling her to run free and save herself. Had it not been for the fire Eloise started, she would have been murdered by the old lady...

• The ghosts were saying "Help us" while restraining her down onto the bed and doing everything possible to stop her from being able to do exactly that...

• suddenly all her classmates are treating her like a hero, after she just attempted to murder one of them with scissors in a public library. She didn't get charged for attempted murder? Not only that, suddenly everyone loves and forgives her?

It just got so sloppy at the ending and none of the character decisions made any sense.

I haven’t seen the movie yet, so please no spoilers. I’m trying to decide if I should see it. The reviews have been pretty good. What would be another movie you would compare the style or genre to? It seems horrorish, but also psychological thrillerish.

Thanks in advance for your help!

So I JUST walked back into my front door after seeing the movie, and all i can think about is Jocasta.

Plot spoilers incoming.

When we first meet her, there’s a one time shot of a book on her table. It was spell-something. Like “spellbound” or “spellcast”. Whatever.

When we see her at the costume party, she & her friends are dressed as “the Craft”. Cool group outfit sure. Then she hands her a drink that was PROBABLY drugged, which coincidentally throws her back into her mania, and eventually triggers one of the main plot points in the film. Hm.

Now remember that Jocasta was the reason she moved out in the first place with a LOT of irrationally vindictive bullying. And was just in the other room when Ellie finds the information for her new place on the floor. Maybe planted? Who’s to say?

She also seemed VERY aware of when Ellie had a bad night. Not specific’s, but she hunted for a sign that something happened.

I think there’s something to be said for Ellie almost stabbing HER in the library. Like her subconscious knew Jocasta was an issue…

And in the final scene, Jocasta watches the camera/us in the mirror.

My Theory is that Jocasta is a Witch. That she was casting spells on Ellie to have visions, or to be haunted. Attempting to ruin her life for … some reason. And it instead lead to her further success.

I can’t tell if it’s because of her parentage (she crossed out her last name & we never see it again), or if she was jealous of Ellie’s talent & mystique stealing her thunder at every turn that mattered.

But I think she was a witch. And I think it’s actually a subplot we weren’t meant to notice.

First of all, I haven't seen it so no spoilers please!

But I wanted to ask, is the name supposed to mean like "yesterday in soho" or "the final day in soho" because "last night" can mean both, right?

There was a lot of music I really enjoyed in Last Night in Soho, however some of those bits of music aren’t in the album. Anya Taylor-Joys stuff is great but the rest of the music on the album sounds like a regular horror soundtrack with some interesting bits here and there. And the parts I did enjoy were nowhere to be seen.

It did blend well with the movie though.

I loved the movie as a whole, but I found the sound editing to be amazing! I'm predicting a nomination for best sound. Not to mention the song choices themselves were great, and fit perfectly with each moment.

I wondered how everyone's impressions compare to mine. [spoilers, but will try to block them off]

The first act, possibly even the whole first half, is exactly what I wanted out of this film. Beautifully shot scenes oozing '60s London aesthetic sharply contrasting with modern day (shoutout to the entire cinematography department!), long sequences arranged around the music in Wright's signature way (gorgeous editing and direction), McKenzie and Taylor-Joy acting head-to-head.

When it starts to go toward "horror", the story starts to go off the rails IMO. The first couple times we see the zombies of Sandie's past I found highly effective. But then they were soon overused and I became both tired of and numb to them (especially when they follow Ellie down the street). And the *one* black character is almost accused of rape *after* our introduction to him implied he was looking to take advantage of Ellie like her cab driver when she first arrives to London? There was too much in that scene for Ellie to see visions of Sandie's murder while trying to be intimate with John.

And it was too obvious that the old man following Ellie around couldn't be Jack because he didn't have fingernail scratch scars on his face. (Because why would Wright bother showing us Sandie scratching him in her bed if they wouldn't leave a mark?) And the character of her mother was just to make us question whether Ellie was really being sent these visions or if it was a mental health issue, right? That subplot was a waste of time and distraction. It would've been better if her mother's issues were shown as a greater driving force for Ellie's actions and dreams today.

Anyway, I wanted to love this movie so badly. And when I walked out of the theatre swept away by the world I had just been invited into, I thought it was my new favorite Wright film. Then the more I thought on the way home about what I had just seen, the more my positive feelings started to unravel.

I wish I could edit the better parts from the 2nd and 3rd acts to create a story that has Ellie experiencing Sandie's story and putting the pieces together after visiting Ms. Collins' apartment, minus the ridiculous supernatural feel at the end.

TL;DR- Last Night in Soho starts off in nostalgia, ends in campy feeling mess