The Invitation (2015)
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
Heavy, measured, measured thriller / horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is up to something.
Our read · The Invitation (2015) (2015) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded thriller · horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Invitation
What watching it is actually like.
“You want dinner-party civility slowly rotting into paranoid dread.”
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The reading.
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