10 Smartest Decisions In Recent Horror Movies
1. Drinking The Milk - Barbarian
When people talk about how horror is absolutely thriving right now, last year's Barbarian is a prime example of why it's such a great time to be a horror hound these days.
While it's one thing to deliver a spine-chilling trailer, it's something else entirely to follow through on that promise and deliver a spine-chilling final product. Thankfully, Barbarian did just that.
Plot-wise, this Zach Cregger-helmed offering initially centres on Tess (Georgina Campbell) and Keith (Bill Skarsgard), two strangers who have been double-booked in the same Airbnb house. Given how Tess is the audience's 'in' for the picture, there's a suspicion that maybe Keith isn't quite as pleasant as we're led to believe... even more so when Tess discovers a hidden room with a bloodstained mattress and camcorder in it.
The tease is that Keith is responsible for what's in this hidden room, and subsequently he's well aware of the underground tunnels that this leads to. Of course, he's not, and the poor fella is brutally beaten to death by the deformed figure of Mother.
By the time Tess and the house's owner AJ wind up in the clutches of Mother later in the film, Campbell's character disgustingly has to drink Mother's 'milk'. By doing this, she unknowingly formed a bond with the creature; a bond that saw Mother save Tess in Barbarian's climax after AJ had pushed Tess to her likely death in order to save his own skin.