05-18-2024, 10:32 AM
I thought I posted a trailer for this awhile back, but the forum won't let you search on the term "Men" and I got tired of looking, so here it is again:
Watched this the other night on Paramount (Showtime). It's a very slow paced psychological thriller. Jessie Buckley (the psycho nurse from Fargo Season 4 and the lead in I'm thinking of Ending Things - another psychological WTF story http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...ht=buckley )
Here, she's a widow, escaping to a house in the country, after her abusive husband commits suicide. A creepy landlord shows off the place and hand her the key and then the slow thriller begins. She walks in the woods, plays with echos in an abandoned train tunnel and then thinks she's being followed and tries to get back to the house. Encounters a nekkid man in the distance, but, later nekkid man is poking around the house. She freaks out and calls the police. They come and arrest him. She goes to the the old church, encounters a young lad that looks a lot like the landlord. She goes in to see the stained glass and sees the font with the green man sculpted on the side. There are intermittent flashbacks to the penultimate argument with her husband. Then she meets the vicar, who also looks like the landlord. He tells her her husband's suicide was her fault. She storms off and goes to the pub where the bartender looks like the landlord. Oh, and the landlord is there. And a few other blokes, that all look like the landlord.
More hilarity ensues. The nekkid man has been released an is stalking her again. There's a lot of chasing and running and crazy. At one point, he grabs here thru the mail slot in the door and she jams a knife into his arm. He slowly withdraws the arm, cleaving it in two, from the elbow to the middle of the hand. From then on his hand is split, but still functional. More chasing and running and crazy. Then the nekkid man, now full green man, injured, is limping towards her across the grounds, collapses and births a man sized baby that looks like the landlord. This creature pursues her, still injured, collapses and births another man sized baby that looks like the landlord. This happens multiple times. It's very Cronenburg.
From writer/director Alex Garland who wrote/directed Ex Machina.
Not doom recommended, but the hand-splitting and birthing sequences are pretty doomy.
--tg
Watched this the other night on Paramount (Showtime). It's a very slow paced psychological thriller. Jessie Buckley (the psycho nurse from Fargo Season 4 and the lead in I'm thinking of Ending Things - another psychological WTF story http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...ht=buckley )
Here, she's a widow, escaping to a house in the country, after her abusive husband commits suicide. A creepy landlord shows off the place and hand her the key and then the slow thriller begins. She walks in the woods, plays with echos in an abandoned train tunnel and then thinks she's being followed and tries to get back to the house. Encounters a nekkid man in the distance, but, later nekkid man is poking around the house. She freaks out and calls the police. They come and arrest him. She goes to the the old church, encounters a young lad that looks a lot like the landlord. She goes in to see the stained glass and sees the font with the green man sculpted on the side. There are intermittent flashbacks to the penultimate argument with her husband. Then she meets the vicar, who also looks like the landlord. He tells her her husband's suicide was her fault. She storms off and goes to the pub where the bartender looks like the landlord. Oh, and the landlord is there. And a few other blokes, that all look like the landlord.
More hilarity ensues. The nekkid man has been released an is stalking her again. There's a lot of chasing and running and crazy. At one point, he grabs here thru the mail slot in the door and she jams a knife into his arm. He slowly withdraws the arm, cleaving it in two, from the elbow to the middle of the hand. From then on his hand is split, but still functional. More chasing and running and crazy. Then the nekkid man, now full green man, injured, is limping towards her across the grounds, collapses and births a man sized baby that looks like the landlord. This creature pursues her, still injured, collapses and births another man sized baby that looks like the landlord. This happens multiple times. It's very Cronenburg.
From writer/director Alex Garland who wrote/directed Ex Machina.
Not doom recommended, but the hand-splitting and birthing sequences are pretty doomy.
--tg