{"id":11455,"date":"2016-10-14T20:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T01:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11455"},"modified":"2016-10-12T14:49:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T19:49:39","slug":"the-invitation-2015-karyn-kusama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11455","title":{"rendered":"The Invitation (2015, Karyn Kusama)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have my doubts that a cult could brainwash people into cleansing their past by inviting their friends over to dinner and murdering them, but I suppose the presence of Zodiac<\/a> killer John Carroll Lynch as the cult’s representative adds believability. This wasn’t quite the surprise thrill of last year’s Coherence<\/a><\/em>, but it had a couple of great things (and better camerawork). Lead character Will (Logan Marshall-Green, beardy with Keanu-eyes, also of Prometheus<\/a><\/em> and Devil<\/em>) is nervous and somewhat traumatized to be seeing his ex Eden (Tammy Blanchard of Rabbit Hole<\/em>) in their former home for the first time since their breakup after their son died, and his back-and-forth between being extremely paranoid and trying to relax provides most of the movie’s tension. He recognizes something feels wrong and essentially predicts the cult-murder but social propriety keeps calming his reactions. And of course I love an apocalyptic ending and this movie (again, however unrealistically) provides one beautifully with a simple image, red lantern lights dotting the surrounding hills.<\/p>\n

Watched this after reading an interview with director Kusama and realizing that the trash-heap final version of Aeon Flux<\/em> wasn’t all her fault. All is now forgiven. Surprisingly the writers of that disaster (also R.I.P.D.<\/em> and Clash of the Titans<\/em>) did this one as well. Also in the cast: Emayatzy Corinealdi (Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere<\/em>) as Will’s new girlfriend, and Michiel Huisman (Treme<\/em>) as Eden’s party cohost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have my doubts that a cult could brainwash people into cleansing their past by inviting their friends over to dinner and murdering them, but I suppose the presence of Zodiac killer John Carroll Lynch as the cult’s representative adds believability. This wasn’t quite the surprise thrill of last year’s Coherence, but it had a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,54,2156],"class_list":["post-11455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-horror","tag-karyn-kusama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11479,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11455\/revisions\/11479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}