Review: “Barbarian” immerses us in the spooky living space of a double-booked Airbnb
But “Barbarian” does something unusual. Writer-director Zach Cregger’s script takes these various paint-by-number horror elements — a vulnerable debutante, an unfamiliar house, a hidden room — and colors outside the lines.. But while “Barbarian” is dryly funny, his foray into fright isn’t exactly a horror comedy, and that’s a good thing.
Cinematographer Zach Kuperstein works with Cregger to immerse us in this spooky living space. The house, which is in a rough part of Detroit , is the most dangerous place in the movie, and we get to know its layout, from the plain, utilitarian furnishings to the horrifying underground passages. It becomes so familiar that when the action calls for a change of venue, it’s unsettling since we no longer know where we are.
The cast sells the film’s tangled conceit. Campbell takes what seems like a run-of-the-mill woman in distress and invests her with not just toughness but maturity. Skarsgard plays his part with the right level of ambiguity; he seems sensitive but shifty enough for us to wonder whether he’s the eponymous brute.
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