The Invitation
Just as Jaws made audiences fear to step in the open ocean, Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation will make them fear dinner party invitations. Much like Jordan Peele’s Get Out, The Invitation, released in 2015, trades in the creeping discomfort of social awkwardness for most of its running time. The film focuses on a man and his new girlfriend as they attend a dinner party at his ex-wife’s house that dredges up bad memories and feels increasingly like recruitment for a religious cult.
If social situations already make you feel awkward, The Invitation will make your skin crawl, and even the most jaded viewer will likely be freaked out by the film’s final reveal.
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