Director: Cameron Francis
Year: 2026
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
Plot:
Deciding to reconnect their friendship, a woman visits an old friend of hers and tries to rekindle their fractured relationship, but as the night continues and they start to distrust what's going on around them, their burgeoning issues start to play havoc with each other to the point of violence.
Review:
This was a solid, if overall problematic, thriller. The central setup here is inherently engaging, offering a look at the friends as they attempt to bond once again since they've been away from each other since college and the chance to put a series of misunderstandings behind them to start their life over again, which gives this some complex issues to start this off. Everything comes to a head as the night wears on, where both sides are trying to keep something from the other, and the misunderstandings start to become more prominent, especially when the series of revelations that come about involving their deceased former friend who split their friend group up starts to turn the evening into a murder confession while holding her hostage. It's where the film's most intense aspects lie, and the twisted truth about everything coming to life that puts them in danger makes for a fun time.
That leads into the main problem here, where the series of interactions that take place here work more as a distraction from the more overt genre qualities on display. The whole thing relies on the idea of secrets they share being the main driving factor of the film, giving this very little beyond brief glimpses of some ghostly object following her around the house, which ends up causing the film to drown in endless conversations for plenty of the running time. The two friends playing pretty much the entire film in their living room without leaving for just slight dalliances keeps this grounded without much happening for large portions of the time, and that tends to drag the pacing and tempo down with them arguing with each other over the lies and accusations that are brought up. This gets fixed with the finale and offers plenty of fun again when that occurs, but it’s a while to get there, which doesn’t always work.
Overview: ***/5
A really effective thriller that has a few drawbacks, there’s a lot to like here, which helps to keep this one going along even if some of the other aspects here are pretty problematic that hold this down. Those with an interest in this type of format or who are curious about it will have a lot to like with this one, while most others out there might want to heed caution.
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