Movie Review Barbarian

Barbarian (2022) 

Directed by Zach Cregger 

Written by Zach Cregger 

Starring Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgard, Justin Long, Richard Brake

Release Date September 9th, 2022 

In theaters only 

Barbarian lives up to the hype. The movie that has used audience reaction footage as its main marketing image, creating a strong amount of buzz without giving away the shocking twists, is as good as those audience reactions shots indicate. Written and directed by former The Whitest Kids U Know star Zach Cregger, the combination of old school scares and modern, outlandish humor, comes together brilliantly. That's not to say that Barbarian is a laugh riot. Rather, the laughs are flawlessly in place as a release valve for the tense and exciting horror movie thrills. 

Barbarian stars Georgina Campbell as Tess Mitchell, a young and ambitious documentary filmmaker who has come to Detroit to interview for a job. Tess has rented an Air BnB but there is a problem, someone else has also rented this home. Alexander Skarsgard plays Keith, a nice enough, seemingly normal guy, who claims to have rented the home via a different home rental app. Being that it is late at night in a bad part of Detroit, Keith invites Tess to take the bedroom and stay the night while he sleeps on the couch. The two proceed to have a pretty fun night until Tess heads to bed.

Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here. 

Movie Review The Watchers

The Watchers (2024) 

Directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan

Written by Ishana Night Shyamalan

Starring Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouere, Oliver Finnigan 

Release Date June 7th, 2024 

Published June 10thth, 2024 

The Watchers stars Dakota Fanning as Mina, an emotionally scarred young woman hiding from her problems as an ex-pat in Ireland. She works for a pet shop and when her boss asks her to take a rare parrot to a zoo in Dublin she leaps at the chance to break the monotony of her life. This monotony includes encounters with strange men in bars while she's wearing a wig to hide her identity. What this proclivity has to do with the rest of the plot of The Watchers is up to you, I suppose. 

While driving her new parrot friend to Dublin, Mina finds herself lost in a forest that doesn't appear to be on her map. When her vehicle breaks down, she gets out of the car and with her parrot, she goes searching for help. As the sun begins to go down, she starts hearing a strange rustling sound. Soon, she's beckoned to come into a strange looking building an urgent woman we will come to know as Madeleine (Olwen Fouere). She instructs Mina to stand in front a mirrored wall as 'the watchers' arrive to stare at them.

Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.