"So, everybody's dead," Channing Tatum's tech billionaire Slater King says with a grin in the trailer for Zoë Kravitz's bold, brilliant directorial debut Blink Twice. While the promo – set to LCD Soundsystem's upbeat 'Dance Yrself Clean' – keeps its cards close to its chest as to the how and why, with that three-word line, it makes it clear most of its characters aren't going to make it to the end credits alive, and yet I was still gobsmacked as just how much of a horror movie it truly is.
Billed as everything from a psychological thriller to a dark comedy, the film follows cocktail waitress and aspiring nail artist Frida (Naomi Ackie), who's been itching to cross paths with King again, having shared a brief flirtation with him while working his annual gala the year before. In an attempt to get his attention, she and her best friend Jess (Alia Shawkat, on top, giggle-inducing form) swap their uniforms for silky dresses and infiltrate the party this time round – which leads to them to spend the evening with King and his fancy friends, before he whisks them all away to his private island.
