House of Darkness
Director: Neil LaBute
Year Released: 2022
Rating: 1.0
After having met at a bar (and a few drinks in), Mina (Kate Bosworth) asks "business consultant" Hapgood (Justin Long) to take her back to her isolated family estate; they continue with the boozing and banter (she questions every statement he makes), he's introduced to her sisters Lucy (Gia Crovatin) and Nora (Lucy Walters) and then they eat him. That's it. Considering LaBute's history, I'm guessing this is his glib response to the #MeToo movement: Hap claims he's a "good guy" but still - in an inexplicable move - brags to his buddy on the phone that he's going to spend the night with her (the friend weirdly requests pictures) ... and is separated (but not divorced) from his wife (he says he doesn't think about "morality" of the situation). With his little Dracula references, it's like Neil's arguing women are using the current times to turn into predators in order to lure in their dumb and horny prey ... which is a wild over-simplification of what's actually happening. Read the room, buddy.