Australian director Damien Energy follows up his acclaimed survival-thriller Killing Floor with one other nail-biter within the Hulu drama No Exit. On this bleak and practically inscrutable thriller, Energy places us within the footwear of an addict named Darby (Havana Rose Liu), as she pulls off the highway to a darkish and sudden place.
The remainder cease is a wierd one certainly, positioned in a distant, barren however oddly peaceable panorama, and guarantees respite from a mountain blizzard. For folk who’ve been driving these sleety roads, it appears the one place to go, with different vacationers huddled in a wooded cabin. However one thing is just not proper… Darby, who has stolen a automotive to go to her dying mom in Sacramento, isn’t the one legal in sight–somebody has slightly lady tied up behind their van, and she or he’s freezing.
Written by Andrew Barner and Gabriel Ferrari, who beforehand collaborated on the latest Ant Man film, No Exit is just not a simple movie to digest. It’s extremely bleak, each in content material and coloration palette. The movie is awash in black, white, grey and blue (each time the wind howls, you’re feeling it), and the emotional palette is equally chilly. The movie owes an excessive amount of its environment to The Hateful Eight, one other snowy chamber piece a few kidnapped lady, solely this time we aren’t positive who’s kidnapping whom.
Darby isn’t positive who to suspect. Nurse Sandi (Dale Dickey) and her husband Ed (Dennis Haysbety) are principally good, if vulnerable to bicker over Ed’s playing drawback. The twitchy, tumultuous Lars (David Rysdahl) appears an apparent suspect, however one other solo traveler, Ash (Danny Ramirez), appears slightly too charming to not be as much as one thing. And what’s up with Ed? I imply, the man appears like he may beat Mike Tyson in a battle.
No Exit retains us on our toes with an arsenal of twists, turns, rug-pulls and back-stabs, to not point out some of the violent finales you’ll see in a film all yr. Positive, there are sufficient wacky twists to fill your grandma’s favourite airport novel, however that is an airport novel that by no means veers into airplane mode. There’s at all times one thing recent, new, darkish and perverse being thrown on the display. It’s not at all times fairly, nevertheless it’s by no means lower than thrilling. If this seems like your cup of tea, you’ll be able to test it out on Hulu now!
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