2015 · thriller · horror
The Invitation (2015)
Directed by Karyn Kusama1h 40m2015
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.
Heavy, measured, measured thriller / horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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“You want dinner-party civility slowly rotting into paranoid dread.”
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