I have never seen a movie pull such a successful turnaround over its runtime as this one. I found it in with FreeVee’s horror movies, but noticed the names of a bunch of comedy actors in the credits (including Max Greenberg as the douchebag he’s only hinted at in every other role he’s ever played.) It starts seeming like a somewhere trite revenge fantasy—woman goes out, acts drunk, gets guys to take her home and try to take advantage of her, and then confronts them and does something to them that’s never actually revealed. And, it was well done enough to be enjoyable on that level, even if it seemed a little on-the-nose and unimaginative. I figured , with all the comedy actors, I was in for satire on the level of “Teeth”, perhaps. Then it progresses to reveal the crime she is avenging, and she moves from general douchebags to targeting the people from her past who were specifically involved in the crime. Also shows characters with some depth, not everything is black and white… such as the parents of the friend she’s avenging (without their knowledge) asking her to move on from the loss, which she’s clearly unhealthily holding on t, noticed even by the other people in the film who care about her. The tension ratchets, and by the end, not only are there some profoundly disturbing scenes (which is saying a lot considering how many horror movies I’ve seen) but I genuinely didn’t know what was going to happen next, until it finally built to a very satisfying final act that I didn’t see coming.
It’s a tough call if I can recommend it as a watch, as a very good chunk of the movie is no better than ok, it takes a long time to build and I’m not sure the denouement is quite worth all that. But I will say it opened by setting expectations very low, and only turned up the heat extremely slowly, but by the end totally had me, I was kinda blown away.