It’s not the first or last time a movie has had an unsettling effect on people, but it rarely causes viewers to give up before the end.
Films like The Witch, Hereditary and Midsommar are proof that production company A24 is rarely wrong when it comes to horror films, and a large number of viewers of last year’s horror film Men, directed by Alex Garland for A24, would agree with this.
Alex Garland is best known for the acclaimed sci-fi film Ex Machina, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Garland also wrote the screenplay for Men, but this time it was met with criticism, as some critics were unhappy with the narrative structure of his horror.
The Man follows widow Harper, played by Jessie Buckley, who goes on vacation to a nearby village after her husband commits suicide. Although the vacation was supposed to be an opportunity to heal, her life turns into a nightmare because she is constantly surrounded by men from the village who bear the same face. All the men were played by Rory Kinnear.
Men viewers took to Xu (Twitter) to report that the film was so disturbing that some audience members left the theater during the screening.
Garland’s film Men received a 69% from Rotten Tomatoes critics, while IMDb viewers gave it a 6.1 out of 10.