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‘Birdeater’ Review: Effectively Disorienting Ensemble Piece Handles Friendship and Romance with Razor-Sharp Incisiveness
Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s horror-laced debut unfolds during a bachelor’s party that devolves into a nightmarish ordeal full of unsavory revelations.
That moment of vulnerability follows a night of insidious games and unsavory revelations that test the bonds among a group of friends and acquaintances during a fateful buck’s party in “ Birdeater,” an engrossing horror-laced ensemble piece from Australia that successfully instills uneasiness and discomfort via confident and consistently in-your-face stylistic choices. Hunter remains a scene-stealer throughout thanks to his anger-inducing performance as overbearing Dylan, but it’s the character’s best bud Louie (Mackenzie Fearnley) and his wife-to-be Irene (Shabana Azeez) who are at the center of this get-together gone awry where conflicts take on increasingly dangerous stakes. With energetic and bold splatters of image and sound, directing duo Jack Clark and Jim Weir conjure up a similarly disquieting mood as that in other films about reunions exposing the cracks in platonic and romantic relations.
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