The Indie Horror Film That Everyone Is Suddenly Talking About
<em>Barbarian</em> capitalizes on the thing viewers love and hate most: the unknown.
This story contains major spoilers for Barbarian.
On the opening day of this year’s , one film was on everybody’s lips. As I ran into other critics around town, they kept asking, “Have you seen yet? You’ve gotta.” That kind of chatter is typical at a festival, but the only wrinkle was that wasn’t even playing at TIFF. It was just a small-budget horror film that had been plunked into theaters in early September, a so-called dead zone for new releases. The title is cryptic, mostly avoids imagery from anything past the first act. Despite these hurdles, the movie.
