As a godfather of the torture porn genre, it’s great to see Eli Roth taking a stab at something a bit meatier…wait…torture & sex? NM.
“Evan Webber (Reeves) is living the dream. Just look at his beautiful, successful wife; his two wonderful kids; and his truly stunning house—which he designed himself. Of course he did. Things are going so well, Evan doesn’t even mind spending Father’s Day alone while the rest of his family heads out for a beach weekend. And then there’s a knock on the door.
The two young women (Izzo, De Armas) standing on Evan’s doorstep are where Evan’s dream takes a nightmarish turn. Given co-writer/director Eli Roth’s well-deserved reputation for creating cinematic discomfort, it should come as no surprise what happens next: Things get weird and then dark and then much, much, much darker. But this is no splatter film so Roth keeps the horror nice and psychological as Evan’s life—and house—get ripped apart, piece by beautiful piece.”
This looks like a blast. Something to sit back (restrained or not), & absorb. Humpday horror.
Keanu has recently made it back onto my list of acceptability with the manicly cool John Wick, providing its audience with 70 of the best gun-fu kills I’ve witnessed. And as we reported last month, he signed on for Ana Lily Amirpour’s follow up to A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, “A dystopian love story in a Texas wasteland & set in a community of cannibals”, called The Bad Batch. Not to mention his his role in the new Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Bronson, Only God Forgives) film, The Neon Demon.
I love Genre Keanu, keep it up.
