Barbarians (2021 film)

Barbarians is a 2021 horror film written and directed by Charles Dorfman and starring Iwan Rheon, Tom Cullen, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Inès Spiridonov.

Returning home some time later while his girlfriend Eva works on a large replica Gaeta stone in the property courtyard, Adam discovers the dying fox in his kitchen.

The bird-masked invader, seemingly the leader of the group, performatively vandalizes the house before seating Lucas in a chair and dousing him in blood.

Lucas is forced to read a confession letter in the style of his advertisement for Gateway, but shortly after begins to suffer from a bad trip and is able to break free from his restraints, killing the bird-masked invader.

[4] Barbarians premiered during the Fantastic Film Festival on September 28, 2021,[5] and was released in theaters and on-demand on April 1, 2022, by IFC Midnight.

The site's critics consensus reads, "Sporadically suspenseful, Barbarians is too tonally indecisive to consistently make its most important points".

[10] James Berardinelli of ReelViews left a largely positive review, stating "Dorfman's venture into this familiar milieu is sufficiently well-made to make it worth the time.

[11] Noel Murray of Los Angeles Times wrote "... although Barbarians doesn't have much new to add to the home-invasion genre or much new to say about rich bullies who make even their friends miserable, it really connects for a good, long stretch at the start".

[12] Critic Glenn Kenny writing for RogerEbert.com gave a mixed review, stating "The director carries out his ultimately banal aims with commendable dispatch...