'Barbarian' explained: Unpacking all the twists and the real villain in Airbnb horror
That one-word title looms large over "Barbarian," one of the most delightfully twisted horror films of 2022, in which a woman named Tess (Georgina Campbell) stumbles into a nightmare when she finds her rental house already occupied by a stranger.
It's a roller-coaster horror ride filled with suspense, scares, surprising laughs and some of the most delicious cinematic twists since last year's "Malignant."
What Tess discovers in the basement leads her into a labyrinth of unimaginable horrors — some closer than you might think. But who's the real monster in filmmaker Zach Cregger's Airbnb-of-horrors solo feature debut?
The nice guy and the meet-cute from hell
At first, signs point to said handsome stranger, Keith ("It" star Bill Skarsgard, also an executive producer, cannily playing off his Pennywise persona), who turns up the charm to get Tess to lower her
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