bides its time presenting the horror elements. Not much about the visual language initially suggests horror. Instead, Milburn slowly unsettles with minimalism, peculiar character behavior, and camerawork. Gunni’s vacant stare as he fixates at vintage cartoons, gauze wrapped around his head a significant clue he’s not alright. Karen spaces out on occasion and misses social cues the more Riley presses for updates on the tow they’ve called for. Closeups of the sizzling meat in the frying pan in conjunction with Karen’s insistence upon feeding her new guests plant insidious clues that something might be amiss with the food. This place is far more dangerous than Karen’s sweet, absentminded persona suggests.

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