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Barbarian

2022 · 103 min

A nerve-shredding descent into hidden horrors, laced with pitch-black humor and jarring shifts that keep you off-balance.

Tagline
Some stay for a night. Some stay for a week. Some never leave.
Overview
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • trauma
  • deception
  • survival
  • corruption
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror9
Humour4
Realism6
Romance1
Tension9
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
horror, mystery, thriller
Directed by
Zach Cregger
Written by
Zach Cregger
Starring
Georgina Campbell, Justin Long, Bill Skarsgård, Richard Brake, Matthew Patrick Davis, Jaymes Butler, Kurt Braunohler, Sophie Sörensen
Music
Anna Drubich
Cinematography
Zach Kuperstein
Runtime
103 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English, Spanish

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