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    <em>Revenge</em> Is a Shocking and Subversive Piece of Horror

    Coralie Fargeat’s debut film tackles one of cinema’s nastiest subgenres—the rape-revenge movie.
    by David Sims May 09, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Neon

    The first 15 minutes of could easily double as a garish Bacardi ad or a car commercial. The colors are dialed up to maximum saturation, the soundtrack is pulsing with loud dance music, and our star, Jen (Matilda Lutz), is lazily sucking on a lollipop, having been whisked away by helicopter to a remote desert vacation home by her boyfriend, Richard (Kevin Janssens), the married man she’s having an affair with. The director,presents as a testosterone-fueled fever dream, but unsurprisingly, it soon turns into a nightmare.

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