Oh, Hi!- Molly Gordon reveals why she pushed back against genre change for the film

Oh, Hi! is a romantic comedy film helmed by Sophie Brooks, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics on July 25. Brooks co-wrote the story with Molly Gordon, and the duo produced it with Dan Clifton, David Brooks, and Julie Waters.

Here's the official synopsis as per Letterboxd,

Iris has met her perfect guy, Isaac, and is enjoying their first romantic getaway together — what could go wrong?

Recently, Gordon spoke about how she pushed back from the film getting into the horror genre. Let's find out what she said.

Molly Gordon reveals why she didn't want Oh, Hi! to be a horror film

Molly Gordon recently appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers, where she confessed that she never wanted her film Oh, Hi! to be a horror flick.

She said,

“It’s interesting. We were discussing that it’s such a dark time [in the industry], but horror’s kind of the only thing that’s working but yeah, people would go, ‘I love the movie, but can she kill him at the end?’ But it’s like, when you think of When Harry Met Sally, what if Meg Ryan just killed him at the end? I want some just romantic movie, does there have to be death always?”

Oh, Hi! focuses on Iris and Isaac, a couple who go on a romantic getaway trip. Slowly, Iris realizes that he is not as committed to their relationship as she is. She then decides to hold him hostage. Reading the synopsis, it's quite easy to assume and expect that it might as well take a turn into horror.

Upon its release, the film met with mostly positive reviews and holds a 63% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The cast members include,

Molly Gordon as Iris
Logan Lerman as Isaac
David Cross as Steve
Polly Draper as Iris's mother
Geraldine Viswanathan as Max
John Reynolds as Kenny

In an IndieWire interview, director Sophie Brooks spoke about Gordon, who is also a producer on Oh, Hi!,

“She’s such a talented performer, she’s such a good singer, she’s so funny, all of these things I know that she’s good at. It was first time I’d written with an actor in mind, and it was really exciting to think, ‘OK, I have these constraints, I have these limited amount of locations, these limited number of actors, what’s the funnest version of this movie with these constraints?’."

How different do you think the film would have been as a horror flick?