It was a dark and stormy night. Well it would be, wouldn’t it? What better setting for tricksy horseplay and stylish devilry? Dutch director Halina Reijn treads the line here between black comedy and out-and-out whodunnit thriller in her English language debut, in which a group of wealthy twenty-somethings gather in a massive house to see out a hurricane, get fucked up and play an old parlour game. It doesn’t take long, to the surprise of no one who has clocked the title of the film, for an innocent round of Murder in the Dark to become something more real – and for those bodies to start piling up.
As a piece of punky, bracing and stylish film-making it certainly does the job at first. Reijn cuts the lights early on, and the majority of her movie is lit by torches, phone screens and glowsticks fashioned into necklaces and wristbands,...
As a piece of punky, bracing and stylish film-making it certainly does the job at first. Reijn cuts the lights early on, and the majority of her movie is lit by torches, phone screens and glowsticks fashioned into necklaces and wristbands,...
- 9/1/2022
- by Marc Burrows
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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