Review of Barbarian

Barbarian (2022)
Strong start but falls off a cliff
15 September 2023
The premise was really strong and interesting. It looked like it was gonna be one of my favorite horror films in recent times. The acting was good, the characters were good, but the film fell off a cliff after the monster reveal. It became a comedy. The monsters were scarier when we couldn't see them. After the reveal I couldn't take them seriously.

The characters who were competent at the beginning started to make the dumb decision horror trope. I stopped rooting for them to escape and I didn't care if they got offed. This completely dissolved the tension of the film for me.

So many horror films have a great setup but the writers do not know how to pay it off. This is one of those films.
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