7 Reasons Why You Need To Go See Thoroughbreds

Amidst all the high-profile releases that have hit multiplexes this year, a little independent film has gone mostly under the radar. That film is Cory Finely's Thoroughbreds.

Starring such well-known actors as Olivia Cooke, Anna Taylor-Joy, and Anton Yelchin, Finley's debut film is one that is practically destined to be a cult classic for years to come. Its marketing has been subdued, at best, resulting in a film that may seem a bit hard to get a read on.

But the journey to the cinema is completely worth it to see this unexpected and wonderfully dark tale of wealth, adulthood, and friendship. The film has already received praise from critics, film fantatics, and filmmakers (including Edgar Wright) alike, so here is why viewers should run, not walk, to the nearest theater to catch a showing of it.

The film's musical backbone makes itself apparent from the earliest moments of the film.

Erik Friedlander is a prolific American cellist who has performed for years in orchestras and duos. But here, Friedlander boldly strikes out on his own as a composer and crafts an entirely unique and entrancing musical score. Instead of composing something more on the nose and fitting with the film's upper-class, posh storyline, he goes with something much more tribal and urgent.

The sounds of pounding drums open the film with the inclusion of scattered, anxiety-ridden fretwork, which sets the tone both aesthetically and musically for the film that follows. Friedlander's work also has the unique ability to toe the line between drama and pitch-black comedy just as well as the film does, with his composure only growing in stature alongside the jokes and resulting tension.