In a movie that likes to pull a surprise, the first act forms a full 33-minutes pre-titles sequence that sets up the movie as a good contemporary adult romantic comedy/drama...and then veers off into very dark and unexpected horror territory very quickly. Sebastian Stan channels the edge-of-insanity control of a Patrick Bateman in another strong performance, Daisy Edgar-Jones is solid in the victim/Final Girl role, as there is a notably good performance by JoJo T. Gibbs as her feisty best friend. This is an extreme men-using-women-as-commodity metaphor wrapped up in a strangely stylish, sombre and intriguing little movie that plays on understatement in the presentation of its shocking central conceit effectively.
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