This new horror thriller from Zach Cregger starring Bill Skarsgard, Justin Long and Georgina Campbell as Tess is rather, jarring and perverse and doesn’t hold up too well to logical scrutiny.
Yet, Barbarian is often a taut, jolting experience that works well within its genre tropes with a long flashback that adds to climactic frights and ghoulishness from smart segueing and a well-executed production given a very modest budget. It may not go over that well in the setting of an Air BNB – Detroit – given the portrait of the Underground and its law enforcement.