Macabre…ish Horror Review: Blink Twice

 

 

Blink Twice, 2024/ 1 hr 42 min

 

 

Frida and her friend, Jess are invited to an exclusive event by Slater King, a CEO who recently stepped down for unspecified reasons. After working an event and having an interesting interaction with him. Frida is smitten.

 

They take the private flight and arrive at his private island where they immediately surrender their phones and are escorted to their rooms. Since they brought no luggage, they are told there are clothes in the closet.

 

This place is not what anyone thought. It feels more like a holistic retreat than a drug/party kind of vacation. Lots of therapy talk and there are drugs but they are less party drugs and more psilocybin. And interesting, mysterious guests. Plus immediately there are rivalries between a few of the women for Slater’s attention.

 

And as the days wear on, they begin noticing missing time. Clothes they do not remember putting on and places they do not remember going to. Things seem ok but still somehow feel off to them. After a while they don’t even know what day it is or when they’re leaving.

 

Soon it’s not really fun anymore. And Jess is scared. But Frida doesn’t want to rock the boat. Then the nose bleeds begin, people are more hung over than normal and Jess is missing. Except Frida seems to be the only one that remembers her. There’s no trace of her, it’s like she was never there, except her lighter, yellow with a smiley face and her name.

 

That snaps Frida out of the allure of the place. They have no idea how long they’ve been there. And they have bruises on their bodies and dirt under their nails. Plus it turns out, almost no one knows anyone else there but one other person. Frida and Sarah start to try to figure out what’s going on. They think the fragrance and drugs have made them forget.

 

The only thing that’s different is Jess got bitten by a snake and Frida drank snake venom which helped her wake up. So they get an idea to get everyone else to drink it too and wake them up. Then Frida goes searching for the phones.

 

And as their noses bleed. They begin to remember. And the memories are horrifying. Many of the women remember and rage, brutally attacking the men who hurt them and a lot of people are killed.

 

While Slater is monologuing and making a show of killing Sarah, suddenly he remembers and reacts as if he has been unaware, of this evening’s disaster. And the sight of his badly injured and dead friends hit him hard. And then his head hits a chair, hard, while his house burns.

 

They do not all die and Slater is replaced as CEO. And his friends and colleagues find things very different at his next event.

 

 

This is Zoë Kravitz’s debut feature film, originally titled Pussy Island. It has that Us feel to it. There are a some extremely graphic and gory moments but that’s mostly in the last twenty minutes of the movie. Also intense sexual violent moments in the form of flashes of flashbacks, let that be a trigger warning to you. There is an amazing cast and their performances. This is very well done and very disturbing.