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In the 2022 horror thriller film The Invitation, directed by Jessica M. Thompson, a woman named Evie discovers dark family secrets after her mother’s death and meets a distant cousin through a DNA ...
Marco Vito Oddo is a writer, journalist, and amateur game designer. Passionate about superhero comic books, horror films, and indie games, he formally worked as a Senior Writer for Collider. When he's ...
I can’t stand these types of movies. The twenty-something friends meet again x-number of years later in their thirties to discover, shocker of all shockers, nothing is the same and you can’t relive ...
Suspense is difficult to build, and truly tricking your audience is hard. THE INVITATION is a film that proposes an ending for itself within the first thirty minutes, and immediately gets the audience ...
Beyond her overall genre-hopping mastery, there’s not much in Karyn Kusama’s filmography that could prepare viewers for The Invitation. The filmmaker came to prominence as writer-director of the indie ...
As a horror fan herself, Courtney Taylor knows all too well the tropes that come with Black people in scary movie situations. But with her role in Sony Pictures' new gothic horror thriller, The ...
Sixteen years ago, director Karyn Kusama made a startling first impression with “Girlfight.” Nothing she has made since matches that initial achievement — a gripping feminist boxing tale in which teen ...
The less you know about Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation, the better. This is true of slow-burn cinema of any stripe, but the difference between Kusama’s film and, say, The House of the Devil is that ...
When you play in the midnight slot of a film festival nowadays, audiences can expect something to go horribly wrong within the world of the movie. So going into The Invitation, without even knowing ...