Cast: Josh Ruben, Sarah Lind, Malin Barr, Katie Kung, Lakshmi Hedemark, Tanya Everett, Marshall Taylor Thurman, Neal Mayer
A serial killer brings an unsuspecting new victim on a weekend getaway to add another body to his ever-growing count. She’s buying into his faux charms, and he’s eagerly lusting for blood. What could possibly go wrong?
This film has a very original trajectory, whereas the first half plays more traditional and linear where it surprises you and it feels a little more predictable as we have seen this before a kind of serial killer working his way on a current victim.
Then all of a sudden the film which already was leaning into more psychological and the psychedelic. Totally moves and gives itself up to that direction where we are now seeing the delusions and the reality of the situation that the serial killer has found himself in.
Where he is haunted by different ghosts, demons of past victims telling him what to do and also torturing him as he tries to find his latest victim and to see if she is truly alive or is she dead?
This is where the film also becomes more violent and a little grotesque, though it stays captivating as you wonder what’s real and what isn’t just like the lead character and wondering where this is going to go and what is the ultimate ending.
This isn’t a film one could call light, but it does try to offer something new and different and a bit more experimental in the genre that keeps you guessing, and usually you will be wrong as to where it might go or where it goes, which adds a little decadent fund to the whole endeavor.
This room isn’t gonna be for everyone so if you’re looking for the traditional horror film, this is probably not for you or even if you’re looking for a slash or film this is not going to be the film for it but if you like your horror a little out there and maybe a little thought-provoking and unsteady this might be the film for you
Written By: Enda Walsh, Lynne Ramsay and Alice Birch
Based on the book by: Ariana Harwicz
Cinematography: Seamus McGarvey
Editor: Toni Froschhammer
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte, Sarah Lind, Lakeith Stanfield, Gabrielle Rose, Clare Coulter
Grace, a writer and young mother, is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, we see her acting increasingly agitated and erratic, leaving her companion, Jackson, increasingly worried and helpless.
Jennifer Lawrence gives a phenomenal performance that is raw animalistic and amazing more physical than verbal as that is what the script calls for so she just morphs into the role and is a sensation
Though sadly, she is more interesting and truly the highlight of the movie as the movie is not bad, but she is clearly the star in the heart of the film, even with a stacked cast she’s the only one who makes an impression and stays memorable
Now be warm this film is very dark and very depressing throughout. There are very few if any moments of joy and none that I can truly remember.
Now I knew what I was getting into when it came to watching this as most of Director Lynne Ramsey‘s movies are intense sad and mostly joyless. I’m not saying that is a bad thing. It’s just that, that is the mood and vibe that they give off they can be quite depressing and this film is no exception. They like the main character and maybe this was intentional. The film also feels a little lost.
As it plays, this feels like the film NIGHTBITCH with Amy Adams strive to be or at least make the audience feel like, whereas, even though that film is more of a satire that involve postpartum depression this film is definitely a drama showing the ravages of postpartum depression only revealing through flashbacks that not only to this character might have had mental problems already, but it seems like everyone around her is also breaking down in their own way. They both have many similarities as both protagonists are artists of some kind. Who begin to exhibit animal type behavior.
We see that the relationship seemed kind of rushed from the beginning, and that both characters were always impulsive and now that they are need to be more responsible Lawrence his character does not seem prepared or ready for it or as Robert Pattinson‘s character does but doesn’t want to take on all the responsibilities either
As like in the film night, bitch, he comes across as careless and not at all helpful and expecting her to take on everything
Just as with the main character film plays with time where sometimes we’re not sure exactly where we are in the timeline of their relationship exactly where they are and sometimes if what we’re seeing is real, we’re all in her head
Which is shown to be faulty as in a scene when she sees her neighbor who always rides a motorcycle at a supermarket with his wife and disabled child at first, we believe she’s going to talk to him to help her with a flat tire. Then we realize nose, some weird fantasy that she had of talking to as he represents temptation even though doesn’t really have any lines throughout the film.
Speaking of which Nick Nolte is in the film as Robert Patterson‘s father, who is slowly losing his cognizance and seems to be in a film for only five minutes before he’s gone, which is a shame as he has a screen legend and was hoping that he’d have more time on screen and more things to do, though Sissy Spacek as Lawrence‘s mother-in-law is powerful in her scenes
As she seems to be having her problems after her husband‘s recent death, but still can hold it together and seems to understand what Lawrence‘s character is going through, but wants her to take responsibility and kind of snap out of it even while having sympathy for her
One can’t see who this film’s audience really is as it got a very low cinema score, but it is good filmmaking that is more experimental and doesn’t hold the audience‘s hand. What’s the where it goes and leaves them to interpret it however they will as the last 15 minutes of the film, which so far has been a buildup is truly worth the film. Let’s loose and becomes all the more powerful.
As even though the film does offer some surprises before we reach that point, it’s never as strong as the ending just as a strong and deeply felt Jennifer Lawrence‘s performances. The rest of the film just isn’t as strong as you constantly wonder where it’s going.
