Cailee Spaeny says “horror” three times in this interview clip, but says it correctly only once (i.e., the first time). The second and third time she says ‘WHORE.”

Horror is a two-syllable word that Marlon Brando had no trouble pronouncing correctly in Apocalypse Now (“The horror…the horror”) but Spaeny mouths a one-syllable version. When Spaeny said it the second time I thought she’d made a simple grammatical mistake, which we all do from time to time, but then she said it again.

Saying “horror” clearly is obviously not rocket science. You emphasize the first syllable but then you tell the back of your tongue to follow up with the second syllable, and Spaeny blows it twice.

Ask any RADA graduate to pronounce “horror” and they’ll nail it without effort. James Whale said it correctly. Ditto Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Val Lewton, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee. Even Lon Chaney, Jr. said it correctly. But Spaeny can’t get there.

This is called the degradation of the King’s English by an Amurrican. This is called a lack of an exacting education. This is called a shopping mall way of speaking. This is basically a Millennial-Zoomer disease.