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Barbarian (2022)

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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Josh Halpern
November 23, 2022
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A Simple Mix-up has Barbaric Results in 'Barbarian'

Editor's Note: The following review contains spoilers for 'Barbarian' Barbarian has a lot of set-up. By the hour 20-minute mark I had to tell myself that perhaps not everything in this story will be explained. With only 15-20 minutes left in the film, it would be impossible for every question to be answered or every mystery to be revealed. Recent movies have somewhat trained me to prepare myself for such withholding of information. Pig never really gets to why Nicholas Cage’s character became a hermit. Nope never really explains why Gordy the chimpanzee went on a killing spree. While I appreciated both of those movies, the lack of explanations for these story points left me dissatisfied. But I was ready for Barbarian. I was ready to appreciate whatever ending it was going to throw at me. We may not learn why this one house on Barbary lane is the only liveable space on the block, why ‘The Mother’ has super strength, how Frank ends up capturing all his victims, or what exactly is on those VHS tapes. And that’s okay. In some cases, what’s left to the imagination ends up being the scariest thing of all. Barbarian begins with a young African American woman named Tess, played by Georgina Campbell, arriving at an Air BnB late one rainy night. Due to some scheduling mishap, Tess finds herself sharing the rental with another man named Keith, played by Bill Skarsgard of
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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.

Rating:R
Genre:Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed By:Zach Cregger
Written By:Zach Cregger
In Theaters:9/9/2022
Box Office:$45,400,000
Runtime:103 minutes
Studio:BoulderLight Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment, Regency Enterprises, Hammerstone Studios, Almost Never Films, 20th Century Studios

Cast


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Zach Cregger

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Georgina Campbell

Tess

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Bill Skarsgård

Keith

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Justin Long

AJ Gilbride

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Matthew Patrick Davis

The Mother

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Richard Brake

Frank

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Kurt Braunohler

Doug

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Jaymes Butler

Andre

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Sophie Sörensen

Bonnie Zane

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Rachel Fowler

Meg

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J.R. Esposito

Jeff

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Kate Nichols

Catherine