Strange Darling

There is a beauteously ruthless toxicity to Mollner’s cruel world that’s honestly glorious, and for those that get on his wavelength, Strange Darling is a great deal of malicious fun.

Do you enjoy walking out of a cinema and wondering what the hell you just watched? Then, oh boy, has JT Mollner got a movie for you.

... An ingenious B-grade thriller with A-grade commitment.

The teasing, tricky structure adds intrigue to a fairly rudimentary horror premise and the cinematography is suitably strident, with reds and yellows screaming from the screen.

It’s in uncompromising bad taste but made with lethal precision and discipline.

You’ll think you know where this sun-baked serial-killer thriller is going, until you don’t. A nifty, chronologically crafty tale, fuelled by bravura acting by Willa Fitzgerald, it’s a small movie with high impact.

...familiar territory that’s employed to initially standard yet increasingly thrilling effect by Mollner...

Although it starts with a well-known premise, that of a serial killer, the director presents an original way of telling the story that ultimately becomes incredibly unique and surprising [Full review in Spanish]

Strange Darling isn’t a bad movie. It features some excellent performances and delivers the expected genre pleasures in a novel and unexpected way.

...Strange Darling emerges as an intense, powerful, visceral, heartbreaking, disturbing and in its own way also seductive journey. [Full review in Spanish]