Sweeney Todd Lauryn Kahn Mimi Cave Jojo T.Gibbs film pandemic man and sebastian Sweeney Todd Lauryn Kahn Mimi Cave Jojo T.Gibbs

Sundance Review: Daisy Edgar-Jones And Sebastian Stan in ‘Fresh’

Reading now: 712
deadline.com

SPOILER ALERT: This review may contain details you might want to avoid if you want see Fresh with completely fresh eyes.Take a bite out of Sweeney Todd, a bit of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, throw in a little torture porn, some 50 Shades of Grey, and top it all off with some delicious Hannibal Lecter and you have a recipe for a look at the horrors (literally) of dating, circa right about now.

These are the ingredients screenwriter Lauryn Kahn and director Mimi Cave seem to be craving in Fresh, which debuted Thursday on the first night of the Sundance Film Festival as part of its Midnight movies lineup.

Searchlight picked up the film through Legendary Pictures and will premiere it on Hulu on March 4. It could have a promising run in theaters as well since horror is one of the few genres still gaining traction during the pandemic, but this gruesome side dish of terror may be just an acquired taste, turning off as many as it turns on.Definitely written slyly with a female POV, it isn’t really until the last act that the revenge moments start taking hold, a formula we have seen recently in other female-fronted suspense thrillers like last year’s Best Original Screenplay winner Promising Young Woman and 2020’s The Invisible Man with Elisabeth Moss taking the reins.

It actually starts out like any other romantic comedy as we watch Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones of Normal People) suffering through a first date with a real drip and obnoxious guy.

Read more on deadline.com
The website starsalert.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

DMCA