MEN

We were delighted to previously screen this film but we have no current plans to screen it again. If you'd like to watch it in the cinema, consider a private hire to watch it with friends. That does rely on the film being available for private purchase.

Film details

Film TitleMEN
Suitability
Genre
Length100mins
Year2022
CountryUnited Kingdom
DirectorAlex Garland
ActorsPaapa Essiedu, Gayle Rankin, Sarah Twomey
LanguageEnglish
Showings

In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper (Jessie Buckley) retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears in visionary filmmaker Alex Garland’s (Ex Machina, Annihilation) feverish, shape-shifting new horror film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt81CJcWZy8

Men is audacious, terrifying, and annoyingly oblique. From its declarative title to the brilliant use of Rory Kinnear … Men wants you to think about gender and trauma, but the movie itself is a funhouse mirror reflecting back your own biases…

One should approach “Men” as if it were modal jazz: it isn’t so much about a hummable melody as it is about tone, color, mood, and the thrill of unexpected exploration within a set framework.

Audiences are all but guaranteed to leave this folk-horror bizart-house offering feeling disturbed, even if no two viewers can agree on what bothered them about it.

An unsubtle and schematic but very well-acted Brit folk-horror pastiche…