Review: New thriller Held is a #MeToo film that relies on twists instead of tact theglobeandmail.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theglobeandmail.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
While #metoo has been going strong since 2017, it’s only recently that the movement has crystallized into a true cinematic form. Superhero flicks such as
Birds of Prey and
Wonder Woman 1984 are now targeting toxic masculinity, and voices we seldom heard before (the teen unable to get a legal abortion, the office assistant forced to cover for her a-hole boss) are anchoring heavy dramas. Heck, there’s even a proper Best Picture nominee
Promising Young Woman with a good shot at taking home the golden statuette at the Oscars.
The reckoning is reaching every genre and budget tier, including indie horror, a subcategory better known for being more exploitative than woke.
Held review: Domestic horror stuck in captivity latimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from latimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Review: Love, marriage, surveillance, torture in suspense thriller Held
A couple are put through the wringer in horror movie from Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing
Adam Graham
A vacationing couple is put through a particularly grueling round of marriage counseling in Held, a thriller that despite being clumsy manages to hold viewers attention longer than anticipated.
It s the kind of try-anything suspense tale that throws so much out there it tends to morph into something new every 15 minutes or so.
It starts off with Emma Barrett (Jill Awbrey, who wrote the film) being driven to a vacation home in an extremely remote location. No one is around for miles, and her driver asks a few too many questions and acts a little too creepy. Better keep an eye on him.