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Lucky



IMDb Info

Release Year: 2020
Runtime: 1h 23min
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre Tags: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Plot Summary: A suburban woman fights to be believed as she finds herself stalked by a threatening figure who returns to her house night after night. When she can't get help from those around her, she is forced to take matters into her own hands.

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phancy.com rating:

phancy.com notes: Tight, clever writing and a story that spirals towards a dreadful center. Subverting every horror trope, the descent into nightmare becomes a rise to awakening. Too bad the awakening is also a nightmare.


Outside Reviews:

Sheila O'Malley
3.5 out of 4 stars - rogerebert.com

This nightmare-come-to-life scenario takes on the aspect of one of those terrible dreams where you're being chased, and you try to run, but you can't move. May is like Josef K. in Kafka's The Trial, doing her best in a confusing threatening world, where everyone else seems to have gotten some mysterious memo about "the way things are," and she was left off "the list." When the underlying truth finally shows itself, almost at the very end of the film, everything you've seen before shuffles into awful and angry clarity. The title, too, moves into focus, showing its thematic underpinnings, in the way titles can do with really good short stories.


Tres Dean
4 out of 5 stars - Lucky review - home-invasion horror that's a stand against violence, on repeat

This clever thriller teeters on the brink of abstraction, and walks a razor wire between horror and an incredulous absurdity meant to stand for how women must live in the modern world: the daily toll of living in fear of aggression, physical assault and withstanding the misogynistic structures that excuse them.