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Here is a single-location mystery thriller from first-time feature screenwriter Christie LeBlanc which is more than a bit on the preposterous side. It requires some hefty levels of disbelief suspension and plausibility buy-in. But the excellent Mélanie Laurent (from Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds) sells it hard, and it’s a rather elegant contrivance, more restrained than usual from this director, the shlock-horror specialist Alexandre.
Thu May 13, 2021 at 9:35am ET
Melanie Laurent in Oxygen. Pic credit: Netflix/Shanna Besson
It’s crazy to think that the existence of human life depends on one simple thing. Sure food, shelter, and other things are important but this whole thing called life comes crashing down without oxygen. The new film Oxygen from Alexandre Aja tackles that notion in a single sitting thriller about a cryo patient waking up with her air dwindling slowly.
The last time we saw Alexandre Aja behind the wheel of a horror film was with 2019’s Crawl. That film was pure horror mayhem and surprisingly more fun than it had any right to be.