The Invitation
One of our favourite genre movies from last year’s London Film Festival was the superb The Invitation, a trailer for which has just hit the internet.
The film revolves around a dinner party which goes horribly, horribly wrong in the Hollywood Hills. Here’s the official synopsis:
In this taut psychological thriller by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Jennifer’s Body), the tension is palpable when Will (Logan Marshall-Green, Prometheus) shows up to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife Eden (Tammy Blanchard, Into the Woods) and new husband David (Michiel Huisman, “Game of Thrones”). The estranged divorcees’ tragic past haunts an equally eerie present; amid Eden’s suspicious behavior and her mysterious house guests, Will becomes convinced that his invitation was extended with a hidden agenda. Unfolding over one dark evening in the Hollywood Hills, THE INVITATION blurs layers of mounting paranoia, mystery, and horror until both Will—and the audience—are unsure what threats are real or imagined.
Our review said that the slow-burning thriller served up a ‘delicious serving of psychological drama, even if it does make you wait for your food.’
Watch the first U.S. teaser from Drafthouse below. The film arrives in cinemas and on demand on domestic soil on March 25th, 2016. There is currently no UK release date set.
