Barbarian Reviews

There is some Wes Craven in what represents here (finally!) contemporary horror at its best. Between Alvarez's "Don't Breathe" for the anxiety-inducing atmosphere and Craven's "The Basement of Fear" for the horrific side, the unknown Zach Cregger surprises with his rather intelligent approach to the genre. The (very) good surprise of the year 2022 ?

The only part of this movie I liked was when the main "monster" woman jumped from the tower, the man in front of me and my friends yelled out "SUPER TITS!" into the theater. The point of the movie is so hard to tell. Any message it tried to shoot for, it completely missed by being unwilling to define it's movie by it's themes, which leaves the whole thing bloated and fighting to take it's self seriously and be a piece with a meaning, and a fun movie that's just trying to be weird and kind of gross. You can be offensive, but you can't be a hypocrite. That just makes you lame.