from the NYT write-up, this sounds pretty good: Laced
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prayformojo 🐵 (aka mayhem)
Feb 7 '24, 14:04
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‘Laced’
In a house, a man and a woman talk to another woman whose hair is in a pony tail and she has a serious look on her face.
From left, Zach Tinker, Dana Mackin and Hermione Lynch in “Laced.” Dark Sky Films
Where to watch: Rent or buy “Laced” on major platforms.
The writer-director Kyle Butenhoff wastes no time explaining his film’s central dastardly deed: Molly (Dana Mackin) poisons the meal she makes one wintry night for her husband, Charlie (Butenhoff), for whom she’s been harboring deep resentments. The trouble is her food wasn’t spiked strongly enough, leaving Charlie sick, not dead. Molly can’t bring herself to suffocate him, so her co-conspirator and lover, Victoria (Hermione Lynch), comes over to finish the job. That’s when Molly’s brother, Austin (Zach Tinker, excellent) shows up, and the film starts leveling up head-snapping twists before a bloody and delirious finish.
Butenhoff’s wickedly-crafted, single-location thriller unfolds with all the sinister intimacy of an Agatha Christie drama but shot through with perverse revenge-seeking calculations. (This movie would knock ’em dead onstage.) Far from being opportunistic or exploitative, Butenhoff convincingly weaves together coming out stories — of being abused, and of being a lesbian — that make his film a surprisingly compassionate nail-biter.
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