![]() ![]() Despite her best instincts – like most modern, independent women, Tess is highly vigilant – she’s out of options, and she decides to crash with him in the same house while things get sorted. In a plot twist that demonstrates the perils of farming out property management to anonymous tech companies, it turns out that the house has been double-booked, and Keith (Bill Skarsgard) has already taken up residence. ![]() Georgina Campbell in a scene from ‘Barbarian.’ (20th Century Studios via AP) How can one describe “Barbarian” without giving away all the best twists and turns? Well, it’s a triumph of what could be a new subgenre: “Airbnb horror.” It starts on a dark and rainy night, as a young woman named Tess (Georgina Campbell) attempts to access a lockbox at the Detroit rental home she’s booked for a job interview the next day. Do not watch trailers, do not read reviews, proceed directly to the theater for one of the most brilliantly executed, sharply incisive and wildly scary horror films of the year. In fact, consider this permission to stop reading this review right now, and just buy tickets. This is also essentially the plot of Zach Cregger’s “Barbarian,” about which the less one knows, the better. Wright came up with “Don’t,” in which a gravelly voice intones, “If you are thinking of going into this house – don’t! If you are thinking of opening this door – don’t! If you are thinking of checking out the basement – don’t!” It was funny because it was deeply recognizable, and it tapped into the audience’s urge to yell at the screen, “don’t go in there!” Back in 2007, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez tapped an up-and-coming genre filmmaker, Edgar Wright, to make a parody trailer for a fake movie to play between their “Grindhouse” double feature.
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