Rapper Machine Gun Kelly plays a self-destructive musician in Tim Sutton’s Taurus, premiering in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival. Going by his real name, Colson Baker, he puts in an authentic turn as his character Cole flits between the studio, his expensive apartment and an array of seedy bars and strip clubs. Adding to a sense of impending doom is a disturbing opening scene involving a child with a loaded gun. The significance of this is later revealed, but it could also be considered a symbol of Cole himself: an immature person who has great power, and an attraction to danger.
Set over a few days, this is an involving portrait of a lonely, angry man who’s seeking solace in drink and drugs, while neglecting many people in his life. Most of these are female. There’s Cole’s young daughter, Rose (Avery Tiiu Essex...
Set over a few days, this is an involving portrait of a lonely, angry man who’s seeking solace in drink and drugs, while neglecting many people in his life. Most of these are female. There’s Cole’s young daughter, Rose (Avery Tiiu Essex...
- 2/13/2022
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
Take a moment and think about how many people have stayed in a hotel room before you? How about a new house? What kind of people lived there before you? How many birthdays were celebrated? Did anything terrible happen inside the house?
The haunted house subgenre has seen its fair share of bumps in the night and scary ghosts in the closet, but these stories have stood the test of time and continue to thrive today, look no further than the success of The Conjuring for proof. Because of their effectiveness to create atmosphere, provide space for scares, and create designs that feel like mazes to get lost in, the haunted house film will always be a vessel to explore for filmmakers. Simply stated, houses are scary.
The mysterious house in David Koepp’s new horror thriller You Should Have Left sits lavishly adorned in the countryside atop a hill.
The haunted house subgenre has seen its fair share of bumps in the night and scary ghosts in the closet, but these stories have stood the test of time and continue to thrive today, look no further than the success of The Conjuring for proof. Because of their effectiveness to create atmosphere, provide space for scares, and create designs that feel like mazes to get lost in, the haunted house film will always be a vessel to explore for filmmakers. Simply stated, houses are scary.
The mysterious house in David Koepp’s new horror thriller You Should Have Left sits lavishly adorned in the countryside atop a hill.
- 6/22/2020
- by Monte Yazzie
- DailyDead
Like a lot of haunted house stories, the wonderfully sinister “You Should Have Left” is less about a creepy house and more about a tortured soul. With its empty rooms, creaky floorboards, and symmetrically framed hallways, this may seem like another mansion with secrets and secret passageways, which it kinda is. But it also has a way of revealing the deepest secrets of those who stay there. Enter at your own risk.
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Kevin Bacon plays Theo, a banker with a much younger wife, Susanna, an actress (played by Amanda Seyfried), an adorable daughter, Ella (Avery Tiiu Essex), and a big secret that’s bound to come out.
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Kevin Bacon plays Theo, a banker with a much younger wife, Susanna, an actress (played by Amanda Seyfried), an adorable daughter, Ella (Avery Tiiu Essex), and a big secret that’s bound to come out.
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- 6/19/2020
- by Asher Luberto
- The Playlist
One of my favorite thrillers happens to be the fantastic Stir Of Echoes, directed by David Koepp and starring Kevin Bacon. And when I heard the two were working together again in You Should Have Left, I was more than a little excited. The latest from Blumhouse is a twisted and engaging flick about a married couple renting a mysterious house. The film also stars the delightful Amanda Seyfried and young Avery Tiiu Essex, and it's a spooky little thriller that offers intriguing characters stuck…...
- 6/19/2020
- by JimmyO
- JoBlo.com
David Koepp’s You Should Have Left commits the cinematic sin of embracing boredom with the utmost forgettability. Damned if I’m writing this review at 1:00 Am with droopy eyelids because by morning, I’ll have retained maybe a minute’s worth of Koepp’s unhaunted house snoozer. It’s “Creepy Hallways: The Movie,” except subtract the “Creepy” and have Kevin Bacon’s greatest adversarial face-off be with a staircase. I wish something happened, anything happened, worth retreating into a curled, protective audience position. Instead, a romantic quarrel “intensifies” with supposed “twists” that couldn’t be more unenthusiastic or without tension. To quote a more favorable 2020 film, “Terrifically competent, there’s no excuse for that.”
Except remove “Terrifically” and put another set of question marks around “competent” for emphasis.
Bacon plays sixty-something Theo Conroy, a husband with jealously issues to thirties starlet Susanna (Amanda Seyfried) and father to the...
Except remove “Terrifically” and put another set of question marks around “competent” for emphasis.
Bacon plays sixty-something Theo Conroy, a husband with jealously issues to thirties starlet Susanna (Amanda Seyfried) and father to the...
- 6/18/2020
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Kevin Bacon deserves better. I write this knowing full well that the actor is considered a star, one whose output in the 1980s and ‘90s made him a generational touchstone for Gen-x and older Millennials. He even became a meme before that was a thing. With a slightly different career, the Footloose leading man who always enjoyed a side of ham with his bacon might’ve become a renowned scenery-chewer. Think of the latter day love you see for Nicolas Cage in Mandy or Jeff Goldblum in a Disney+ TV show simply about him “Goldblum-ing” around the world. Yet Bacon never quite achieved that attention. And it’s left him in movies as bland as You Should Have Left.
To be fair, this is a fairly serviceable blandness, erring closer to the thriller side of the horror-thriller movie paradigm. In fact, it has a few sequences that even vaguely unnerve,...
To be fair, this is a fairly serviceable blandness, erring closer to the thriller side of the horror-thriller movie paradigm. In fact, it has a few sequences that even vaguely unnerve,...
- 6/18/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Haunted-house stories occupy a lot of prime real estate in horror — they’re easy narrative structures for four-walling tales of things that go bump in the night and the psyche, the perfect go-to Gothic settings for letting literal ghosts of the past come out to play (or slay). They’re also such a fixture in the public imagination that someone had better bring more than just the same old spooky cobwebs and creaky staircases to the party, or at the very least, construct a superior model of the retro-macabre. According to author Stephen Graham Jones,...
- 6/18/2020
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Home is hell. It might feel that way for some living under quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic, but this concept of a domestic hellscape is also the basis for Blumhouse’s latest horror offering You Should Have Left, which makes its way to VOD today. Based on the novella by Daniel Kehlmann, and written and directed by David Koepp, You Should Have Left follows a middle-aged man, Theo (Kevin Bacon), his much younger wife, Susanna (Amanda Seyfried), a successful actor, and their daughter Ella (Avery Tiiu Essex) who book a vacation home in Wales that gives them more than they bargained for....
- 6/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Home is hell. It might feel that way for some living under quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic, but this concept of a domestic hellscape is also the basis for Blumhouse’s latest horror offering You Should Have Left, which makes its way to VOD today. Based on the novella by Daniel Kehlmann, and written and directed by David Koepp, You Should Have Left follows a middle-aged man, Theo (Kevin Bacon), his much younger wife, Susanna (Amanda Seyfried), a successful actor, and their daughter Ella (Avery Tiiu Essex) who book a vacation home in Wales that gives them more than they bargained for....
- 6/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There’s something wrong with Theo Conroy. A meditation app can’t quiet his mind, which is prone to jealous fantasies and out-there suspicions. Small annoyances rattle him. People look at him askance, his name jarring loose uncomfortable memories, even for seeming strangers. His wife’s success pisses him off. Even his kid knows that something is not quite right with her “Baba.” A vacation can’t solve everything, but it certainly can’t hurt. Or can it? Stepping back from the blockbusters on which he’s built his career — for better and worse — “Jurassic Park” writer and “Mortdecai” director David Koepp turns his attention to the small-scale chills of “You Should Have Left,”
The chiller reunites Koepp with his “Stir of Echoes” star Kevin Bacon (who also produced the film), hinting at the pair’s apparent affection for horror offerings with natty psychological twists. In search of a little peace of mind,...
The chiller reunites Koepp with his “Stir of Echoes” star Kevin Bacon (who also produced the film), hinting at the pair’s apparent affection for horror offerings with natty psychological twists. In search of a little peace of mind,...
- 6/18/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Thompson on Hollywood
There’s something wrong with Theo Conroy. A meditation app can’t quiet his mind, which is prone to jealous fantasies and out-there suspicions. Small annoyances rattle him. People look at him askance, his name jarring loose uncomfortable memories, even for seeming strangers. His wife’s success pisses him off. Even his kid knows that something is not quite right with her “Baba.” A vacation can’t solve everything, but it certainly can’t hurt. Or can it? Stepping back from the blockbusters on which he’s built his career — for better and worse — “Jurassic Park” writer and “Mortdecai” director David Koepp turns his attention to the small-scale chills of “You Should Have Left,”
The chiller reunites Koepp with his “Stir of Echoes” star Kevin Bacon (who also produced the film), hinting at the pair’s apparent affection for horror offerings with natty psychological twists. In search of a little peace of mind,...
The chiller reunites Koepp with his “Stir of Echoes” star Kevin Bacon (who also produced the film), hinting at the pair’s apparent affection for horror offerings with natty psychological twists. In search of a little peace of mind,...
- 6/18/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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