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Barbarian
2022 103 min United States of America R 18+
★7.3
Horror, Mystery
Director: Zach Cregger
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Description
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.
Budget:
$4.5M
US Gross:
$40.84M
Worldwide:
$45.4M
Starring
Georgina Campbell
Actor
Bill Skarsgård
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Justin Long
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Awards
MTV Movie & TV Awards 2023
— Most Frightened Performance
Saturn Awards 2024
— Best Horror Film
Key opinion
Barbarian is a divisive yet ambitious horror film that skillfully blends suspense, dark comedy, and genre-bending narrative shifts. While many viewers praise its unpredictable structure and strong lead performances, others find the shifts in tone and the chaotic final act to be illogical or disjointed.
| Acting | The lead performances from Georgina Campbell, Justin Long, and Bill Skarsgård provide a grounded, compelling anchor for the film's shifting tone. | |
| Direction | The first act excels at building intense, Hitchcockian suspense, setting a high bar that the later, more chaotic sections struggle to maintain. | |
| Screenplay | The film’s episodic structure and abrupt tonal shifts between psychological horror and dark satire create a fragmented experience that some find refreshing and others find nonsensical. | |
| Ending | The decision to embrace a bizarre, genre-blending finale rewards viewers seeking originality, while others view it as an illogical collapse of the narrative. | |
| Pacing | The pacing is highly divisive, with some finding the unpredictable narrative progression exciting and others finding the late-film transitions repetitive and slow. |