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Fresh is a 2022 horror film about a woman who falls for a cannibalistic date. Critics and audiences have different opinions on the movie, ranging from 1 to 5 stars on Rotten Tomatoes.
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- Mimi Cave
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- Daisy Edgar-Jones
Mar 4, 2022 · Noa, a lonely woman, falls for a cannibal who sells her meat to rich clients. Read the review of this dark comedy starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan.
Mar 3, 2022 · Dating is innately predatory in “Fresh,” a wickedly funny cannibal romance and dazzling feature debut from the director Mimi Cave. Even the run-of-the-mill rotten blind date that opens the ...
- 114 min
- Amy Nicholson
9/10. This is a fantastic "new" addition to the horror genre at a time horror fans are starved for something new and original. kevin_robbins 16 March 2022. Fresh (2022) is a movie I recently watched on Hulu. The storyline follows a single lady a little desperate to find a half decent date.
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By Rafael Motamayor
Posted: Mar 4, 2022 3:00 pm
Fresh debuts on Hulu on March 4, 2022.
A deliciously demented horror film that doesn't even begin to let you in on what it's really about until after its opening credits roll a whopping 30 minutes into its nearly two-hour runtime, Fresh offers a full-course meal that incorporates many genres, but manages to stay grounded and balanced thanks to its two lead performances — including Sebastian Stan, who joins the great pantheon of charismatic yet despicable horror villains.
It is not until the salad and the fish have been served and consumed that Lauryn Kahn's script presents us with the opening credits and the light meal of crudités turns into a red-blood meat fest of a horror main course. Spending a quarter of the film's runtime on a typical rom-com with this couple makes the shoe drop hit harder, especially since Edgar-Jones and Stan have palpable chemistry together, and make it really easy to root for them. Edgar-Jones does a terrific job playing into the naive hopefulness, then the utter shock and horror of Noa, but like most films about psychopaths or abductions like Misery or American Psycho, Fresh belongs to the villain. Thankfully, Stan is more than up to the task, showing a side of him Marvel movies have deprived us of for years but is just starting to come off, between this and in Pam & Tommy: a dazzling, energetic psychopath who dances around the kitchen while oozing all kinds of perverse, charming energy. Far from Christian Bale's cold Patrick Bateman, Steve is approachable and chivalrous, equal parts knight in shining armor and absolute monster. Every new scene with him is an extra course to an already full meal.
By the time the end credits roll, you may find yourself asking for seconds.
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To help intensify the flavors of the big, fat, juicy steak that is Stan's performance and the second act of the film, Fresh brings out its secret sauce: Pawel Pogorzelski's cinematography. Having already shown us the horrors of vacationing to Scandinavia in Midsommar, he turns his eyes toward giving Fresh an unsettling yet lush style that often offers extreme close-ups of Steve's handiwork like it was Eli Roth's Hostel without so much gore. The result is about the cleanest, grossest horror movie of the year so far, one with repulsive moments, as well as clips of Sebastian Stan singing '80s synth-pop songs.
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Fresh delivers a full-course meal with dazzling cinematography, disturbing imagery, and one of the best horror performances of the past few years. Sebastian Stan joins the pantheon of horror psychopaths as this delightfully gory movie explores the world of modern dating.
Fresh is a horror satire that starts as a rom-com and reveals its true intentions after 30 minutes. Sebastian Stan plays a charming but twisted doctor who abducts his date, and IGN praises his performance and the film's style.
Jan 21, 2022 · Rated R, 1 hour 54 minutes. The first act of Fresh plays more or less like a rom-com. Just when Noa ( Daisy Edgar-Jones of Hulu’s Normal People) decides she’s fed up with dating, she meets Steve...
Jan 21, 2022 · ‘Fresh’ Review: Modern Dating Is a Meat Market in Twisted Rom-Com Satire. Mimi Cave sinks her teeth into what's wrong with hook-up culture and the commodification of the female body in this...
