Horror movie will make you paranoid If you think you’ll walk into an Airbnb or holiday rental ready to relax and have fun, think again.
Movies by Wenlei Ma 21st Jan 2021 3:53 PM Delivering solid thrills and an ugly portrait of disintegrating relationships, The Rental is a clever meld of drama and horror. The directorial debut of actor Dave Franco, with a screenplay by Franco and indie filmmaker Joe Swanberg,
The Rental is a taut 90-minute movie that will make you squirm. A generally by-the-book affair, its lasting effect will be to make you paranoid about every Airbnb you ever step into in the future - or rethink the ones where you ve stayed in the past. Was someone watching the whole time?
In the wickedly cruel The Rental, Dan Stevens and co shack up in a deadly Airbnb
4/5
Dave Franco’s smart film doubles as slasher flick and character study, with the tension ratcheted up and bloody thrills to spare
Alison Brie, writes Tim Robie, gives Dave Franco s The Rental its wittiest turn
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Dir: Dave Franco. Cast: Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Sheila Vand, Jeremy Allen White, Toby Huss, Anthony Molinari. 15 cert, 89 mins
Dave Franco’s Airbnb chiller The Rental has a great poster – remember those? It’s an upside-down shot of a holiday home, invitingly warm inside, but with a silhouetted figure falling out of it into the night, or maybe the Pacific Ocean. “Secluded getaway. Killer views.”