Come for the horror, stay for the laundry tips
It starts innocently enough. Tess has just arrived in Detroit in the dead of night, for a job interview the next day. But the tidy little house she booked on Airbnb is already occupied by Frank , who rented it from a rival service. The two strangers eye each other warily, but ultimately decide to bunk down in separate rooms and sort things out in the morning.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
And is a Keith a red herring? Maybe. I will only confirm that there’s enough herring in this movie to stock a Swedish restaurant. That includes Justin Long as a Hollywood actor who’s been accused of sexual assault, and who drops by his Detroit property with an eye to liquidating it to help pay his legal bills.Article content
The same hidden basement room that freaked Tess out, he sees as potentially increasing the home’s square footage and hence its resale value. I guess one person’s dungeon is another’s nanny suite. Cregger keeps viewers off balance with his editing choices, introducing Long’s character a full 45 minutes into the film, and following that up with a flashback to the same neighbourhood, circa 1981, before returning to the present day. Gotta admire a horror film that arrives with its own in-house prequel.isn’t a perfect movie – it has a few of those don’t-go-in-there moments that don’t feel completely earned, and some lingering questions about how certain situations even came to be.
That said, it’s an effectively disturbing little number. Campbell does a good job coming slowly unglued, and Long injects some much needed levity into the proceedings. And even if you’re not into horror, it’s worth the price of admission for the scene in which Skarsgard shows a unique way of putting a duvet into its cover. Horror galore and life hacks too!
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