Men (2022)
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In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.
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... Harper
... Geoffrey
... James
... Riley
... Police Officer Frieda
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People will hate _Men_ if they go into it wanting a straightforward story or a film that has one, clear cut meaning once those end credits crawl across the screen. _Men_ doesn’t offer either of those things. The film features stunning cinematography, a mesmerizing forest sequence, and a thrilling score that is as unsettling as it is operatic. Rory Kinnear is exquisitely chilling. This is the type of horror film that is purely, disgustingly, and gloriously nasty and ambiguous. _Men_ is simultaneously a film you shouldn’t think too much about and yet absolutely think about all the time once it’s over.
**Full review:** https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Men-2022-Review-A-Bizarre-Graphic-and-Unforgettable-Folk-Horror-Film
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Men
People will hate _Men_ if they go into it wanting a straightforward story or a film that has one, clear cut meaning once those end credits crawl across the screen. _Men_ doesn’t offer either of those things. The film features stunning cinematography, a mesmerizing forest sequence, and a thrilling score that is as unsettling as it is operatic. Rory Kinnear is exquisitely chilling. This is the type of horror film that is purely, disgustingly, and gloriously nasty and ambiguous. _Men_ is simultaneously a film you shouldn’t think too much about and yet absolutely think about all the time once it’s over.
**Full review:** https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Men-2022-Review-A-Bizarre-Graphic-and-Unforgettable-Folk-Horror-Film
"Harper" (Jessie Buckley) heads off to rural Gloucestershire in England to take a break after the apparent suicide of her husband "James" (Paapa Essiedu). On arrival at the manor house she has rented for a fortnight, she is welcomed by the typical country squire type in "Geoffrey" (Rory Kinnear). She goes for a walk, during which she notices that she is being followed - and the man following her is naked. Spooked, she returns to her home to find that this is just the start of some seriously bizarre goings on in this tiny hamlet. What flaws this all from the start for me is that we see everyone in this community - the policeman, vicar, schoolboy, pub landlord as variations of the same man - Kinnear, yet the "Harper" character does not seem to clock this; she certainly doesn't acknowledge it, and that just doesn't work for me. If I were in a village where everyone looked the same, I'd have been out of there in a shot. Anyway, she lingers on for a while as things become more perilous and she is clearly the focus of the malevolent intentions of this creature - and it all builds to quite a clever feat of special effects and not a great deal else. There is a largely undeveloped underlying plot line about her on-the-rocks marriage that may have had some bearing on the conclusion, but to be honest I was rather bored by the repetition of it all by then. The exterior photography is nice enough and Buckley is competent, but Kinnear's roles are all about the skills of the make up artists. The dialogue is nothing special leaving the score to work hard to try to create a sense of peril that, in the end, I felt was just ... lacking. It's no worse than many of the recent Blumhouse efforts, but that doesn't make it very good, either.
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"Men is undoubtedly one of the most unique, macabre, weird, expectedly divisive films of the year.
Rob Hardy's cinematography is truly impressive, navigating viewers through eye-popping visual details with the help of mesmerizing makeup and VFX. The score by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow is also quite atmospheric and haunting.
Nevertheless, Alex Garland exhaustively repeats his obvious, heavy-handed message to the point of losing all emotional connection with the underdeveloped protagonist. The last act focuses too much on excessive, unpleasant gore to prove a point over and over again unnecessarily, functioning as a distracting, underwhelming conclusion.
Jessie Buckley - extraordinary - deserves much better, as does the versatile Rory Kinnear, who plays multiple roles."
Rating: C
Cast & Crew of
Men
Cast
... Harper
... Geoffrey
... James
... Riley
... Police Officer Frieda
... Samuel
... Police Operator (voice)
Crew
... Producer
... Director
... Writer
... Sound Designer
... Supervising Sound Editor
... Supervising Dialogue Editor
... Supervising Sound Editor
... Producer
... Production Design
... Stunt Coordinator
... Original Music Composer
... Director of Photography
... Sound Editor
... Foley Mixer
... Editor
... Property Master
... Original Music Composer
... Special Effects
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Prosthetic Designer
... Script Supervisor
... Costume Supervisor
... Assistant Set Decoration
... Stunt Double
... Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Prosthetic Makeup Artist
... Costume Design
... Visual Effects Producer
... Special Effects Technician
... Casting
... Special Effects
... Sound Effects Editor
... Foley Artist
... Sound Editor
... Hair Designer
... Makeup Designer
... Post Production Supervisor
... Second Assistant Director
... Sound Editor
... Sculptor
... Concept Artist
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Production Sound Mixer
... Boom Operator
... Scoring Mixer
... Sound Re-Recording Mixer
... Foley Artist
... Stunt Driver
... First Assistant Director
... Music Editor
... Second Second Assistant Director
... Prosthetics Sculptor
... ADR Mixer
... Foley Editor
... Concept Artist
... Second Assistant Sound
... Prosthetic Makeup Artist
... Co-Producer
... Stunt Double
... Special Effects Technician
... Wigmaker
... Sound Mix Technician
... Foley Editor
... Sound Re-Recording Assistant
... Makeup & Hair
... Special Effects Makeup Artist
... Additional Hairstylist
... Prosthetics
... Makeup Trainee
... Props
... Standby Art Director
... Special Effects Assistant
... Special Effects Makeup Artist
... Special Effects Technician
... Animation
... Costume Standby
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