A pre-wedding party at a remote cabin is invaded by a gang of weirdly incompetent attackers in this ingenious comedy-horror
Here’s a wacky and insouciant horror-comedy sketch that delivers as much in its economical 80 minutes as a whole lot of boilerplate scary movies that drag on for a whole lot longer. (And it rather ingeniously finds a new way of solving the modern horror movie’s traditional problem about why you don’t just call for help on your mobile phone.)
It’s from first-time feature director Elliot Feld and stars his wife, Alexandra Feld, who has a certain elegance and sharp authority. She plays Kate, a woman astonished one day to receive an invitation to the wedding of her younger sister Angie (Danielle Burgess) – astonished because she has long been estranged from her. Kate sees it as an opportunity to reconnect and so, swallowing her misgivings and her pride, she agrees to go on Angie’s goofy “bachelorette” weekend with two of her friends in a remote cabin (uh-oh) that she has rented from something called LAB&B (resemblances to Airbnb uncoincidental). But this turns out to be a very chi-chi property, and much nicer than the scuzzy Motel
California down the road that Angie had been considering.