"The premise is not the problem: a sexy young woman lures six eligible young men to her family's country pile for a weekend of romance, only to reveal to the men that they are now trapped in a reality-TV-meets-Saw farce in which they will struggle to survive. On paper, The Bachelorette-meets-femme-Jigsaw sounds potentially fun. The biggest problem is that the film never achieves the necessary suspension of disbelief;"
"horror films have to feel at least somewhat real or deliberately ludicrous while you're watching them; but this just feels like student theatre. You can pick out interesting individual moments that could have been something, but you're never inside the action, willing the characters to escape (or die). It doesn't help that right out of the gate it feels like the film can't quite make up its mind how to begin."
The film follows a sexy young woman who lures six eligible men to her family's country house under the guise of a romantic weekend, then traps them in a reality-TV-meets-Saw gauntlet. The premise promises a playful Bachelorette-meets-Jigsaw conceit but the execution fails to sustain suspension of disbelief. The tone wavers among woodsy folk-horror, torture-porn, and a twisted-mansion chiller, producing a channel-hopping effect. Individual moments show potential, but staging lacks conviction and props and restraints look flimsy and escapable, undermining stakes and emotional investment. The film releases on digital platforms from 2 February.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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