Review of Barbarian (2022) by Olly Richards for Time Out — 26 Oct 2022
Cregger plays brilliantly with your expectations throughout. The characters constantly make the wrong choices – peeking round dark corners, going back to check out a noise – but those choices don’t go in the usual directions.
Cregger isn’t smug or sly about that. He isn’t winking at the audience. He’s using your horror knowledge against you by rarely giving you what the genre has conditioned you to anticipate.
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This review of Barbarian (2022) was written by Olly Richards and published by Time Out on 26 Oct 2022.
Barbarian has generally received positive reviews.
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