Men

"What haunts you will find you."

2022 1h 40m EN

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★6.1TMDB · 1,424

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In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.

“What haunts you will find you.”

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Cast

Jessie Buckley
Harper
Rory Kinnear
Geoffrey
Paapa Essiedu
James
Gayle Rankin
Riley
Sarah Twomey
Police Officer Frieda
Zak Rothera-Oxley
Samuel
Sonoya Mizuno
Police Operator (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Alex Garland
Writers: Alex Garland
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America

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ERA

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Released 4 years ago.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Alex Garland, shot by Rob Hardy. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Ben Salisbury. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Jake Roberts shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear and Paapa Essiedu carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "What haunts you will find you.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt13841850 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Alex Garland directs. Rob Hardy behind the camera. Ben Salisbury scores. Jake Roberts cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 4 years ago.
2International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.
3Directed by Alex Garland, shot by Rob Hardy. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Ben Salisbury. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Jake Roberts shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear and Paapa Essiedu carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "What haunts you will find you.".
8IMDB entry: tt13841850 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 13 themes, including "countryside", "vacation", "woods", "flashback".

The technical file

Cinematography: Rob Hardy
Original score: Ben Salisbury
Editing: Jake Roberts
Production design: Mark Digby
Costume design: Lisa Duncan
Makeup / hair: Nicole Stafford
VFX supervisor: David Simpson
Sound: Howard Bargroff
Stunt coordinator: Jamie Edgell
Runtime: 100 min · 1h 40m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $6,500,000
Box office: $11,152,071
Return: 172% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Men (2022)

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Chris Sawin2022-05-22
★ 9/10
People will hate Men if they go into it wanting a straightforward story or a film that has one, clear cut meaning once those end credits crawl across the screen. Men doesn’t offer either of those things. The film features stunning cinematography, a mesmerizing forest sequence, and a thrilling score that is as unsettling as it is operatic. Rory Kinnear is exquisitely chilling. This is the type of horror film that is purely, disgustingly, and gloriously nasty and ambiguous. Men is simultaneously a film you shouldn’t think too much about and yet absolutely think about all the time once it’s over. Full review: https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Men-2022-Review-A-Bizarre-Graphic-and-Unforgettable-Folk-Horror-Film
CinemaSerf2022-06-04
★ 6/10
"Harper" (Jessie Buckley) heads off to rural Gloucestershire in England to take a break after the apparent suicide of her husband "James" (Paapa Essiedu). On arrival at the manor house she has rented for a fortnight, she is welcomed by the typical country squire type in "Geoffrey" (Rory Kinnear). She goes for a walk, during which she notices that she is being followed - and the man following her is naked. Spooked, she returns to her home to find that this is just the start of some seriously bizarre goings on in this tiny hamlet. What flaws this all from the start for me is that we see everyone in this community - the policeman, vicar, schoolboy, pub landlord as variations of the same man - Kinnear, yet the "Harper" character does not seem to clock this; she certainly doesn't acknowledge it, and that just doesn't work for me. If I were in a village where everyone looked the same, I'd have been out of there in a shot. Anyway, she lingers on for a while as things become more perilous and she is clearly the focus of the malevolent intentions of this creature - and it all builds to quite a clever feat of special effects and not a great deal else. There is a largely undeveloped underlying plot line about her on-the-rocks marriage that may have had some bearing on the conclusion, but to be honest I was rather bored by the repetition of it all by then. The exterior photography is nice enough and Buckley is competent, but Kinnear's roles are all about the skills of the make up artists. The dialogue is nothing special leaving the score to work hard to try to create a sense of peril that, in the end, I felt was just ... lacking. It's no worse than many of the recent Blumhouse efforts, but that doesn't make it very good, either.
Manuel São Bento2022-08-12
★ 5/10
MORE SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS @ https://www.msbreviews.com/ "Men is undoubtedly one of the most unique, macabre, weird, expectedly divisive films of the year. Rob Hardy's cinematography is truly impressive, navigating viewers through eye-popping visual details with the help of mesmerizing makeup and VFX. The score by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow is also quite atmospheric and haunting. Nevertheless, Alex Garland exhaustively repeats his obvious, heavy-handed message to the point of losing all emotional connection with the underdeveloped protagonist. The last act focuses too much on excessive, unpleasant gore to prove a point over and over again unnecessarily, functioning as a distracting, underwhelming conclusion. Jessie Buckley - extraordinary - deserves much better, as does the versatile Rory Kinnear, who plays multiple roles." Rating: C