The Scariest Movie of the Year Isn’t a Horror Movie
<em>The Humans</em> turns a difficult Thanksgiving dinner into something grotesque.
by Shirley Li
Dec 01, 2021
3 minutes
The Humans features no ghosts, monsters, or poltergeists. It’s not set inside a haunted house, an abandoned building, or a tract of shadowy woods. And yet, it might be the scariest movie of the year.
Based on Stephen Karam’s Tony-winning play, and adapted and directed by Karam himself, centers on the Blake family as they gather in lower Manhattan for a Thanksgiving dinner. The mood is about as warm as a broken oven. Deirdre (Jayne Houdyshell, brilliantly reprising her role from the play)
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