“Barbarian” – Movie Review by Rafy Mediavilla (@Rmediavilla)
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, but soon discovers that there is much more to be afraid of in the house than the other house guest.
It is also no secret that I’m absolutely a fan of horror movies that’s my favorite genre I think people that follow me or read these reviews understand that. And I really wanted to enjoy this movie what I saw on the trailers really sold it for me. But ultimately, I had mixed feelings with the Final execution of the movie. Yes, the underlying social commentary of the horrors of running Airbnb business are clear, but I felt once the big mystery gets revealed during the first act of the movie everything else pulls apart.
My main issue with Barbarian is that it feels like two movies in one and one will we finish this in the first act and when we come back to the mystery that was already resolved in that act we get up completely different movie with a completely new social commentary that to me gets lost in the whole mess of running away from this mysterious creature that is haunting this house.
To me there was no connection between the characters between the owner of the Airbnb and with the two persons who are double booked at the Airbnb to me I didn’t feel any connections and to me there was no reason for me to care about them or for the characters to care about each other. To me the whole purpose of the movie was to present a nightmare style situation disguise as a social commentary for running Airbnb and at the end just pushing a little bit The horror of incest relationships. That by the final act when it’s all said and done, I honestly didn’t care much about the characters.
if anything, the one thing that this movie got going for it was absolutely the photography, the cinematography and the score. The whole production screen Sam Raimi from the creature from the mystery from the direction the styling that jump scared everything and how we were presented to create this social commentary behind a nightmare Airbnb and the horrors on of incest relationship work because they use elements from Sam Raimi repertoire that have proven to work in the genre.
And I really would love to recommend this movie as something that you must go see at theaters but ultimately to me it didn’t work. Yes the jump scares are there and everything that screams Sam Raimi work, But this factors are not enough for me to tell you that this is something that you must go out and see.
