Marie travels with her best friend Alex, to stay with Alex's family for the weekend and study. During the night a serial killer enters the family home and kills everyone except Marie (who avoids detection) and Alex (who the man kidnaps). Marie takes off after the psychopath to save her best friend, and both women endure a night of terror at his hands.
Cécile de France, gives (in the movies first act at least) an understated but brilliant performance as Marie; despite no obvious actions, it is clear that Marie is romantically attracted to Alex long before she peeps on her getting ready for bed (the first overt sign of either the attraction, or Marie's sexuality), and once the horror element kicks in the movie is a fairly standard, if gory and effective slasher.
Sadly, in the third act it all goes to hell; creating potholes large enough to drive a truck through, driving a literal truth through them, and echoing them back through the parts of the movie you had previously enjoyed. It arguably turns out to be an incredibly homophobic film to-boot.
To mark matters worse, this third-act reveal is so heavily hinted at in the films opening scene, I spent the entire movie hoping I was wrong as I watched the plot-holes pile up.
Featuring a hilariously dark (or darkly hilarious) sex scene, and an astounding furniture-related kill; Had it been a straight forward slasher throughout, I could have recommended it (albeit unenthusiastically); sadly with the reveal in place the movie is rendered near worthless by a worse-that "it was all a dream" ending.
51st best horror my arse; avoid.
Naaaaaaaaaaah. We both really enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteWhy is the movie homophobic as we're both confused?