2021 · comedy · horror · survival
The Trip
Directed by Tommy Wirkola1h 53m2021
A dysfunctional couple head to a remote lakeside cabin under the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other. Before they can carry out their respective plans, unexpected visitors arrive and the couple is faced with a greater danger than anything they could have plotted.
Our read: The Trip (2021) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · horror · survival entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, extreme comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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