I heard about this when it came out, didn’t go cinema to see it but I had heard very good things about it, when it was available on Disney+ I went in completely blind and was blown away by just how scary it was.

Barbarian follows a woman named Tess checks in to an AirBnb only to find it’s been double booked, enter Keith who has to now share the home with Tess.

We get a couple of bits of dialogue between the two as well as a bit of background for each character, Tess the next morning heads to a job interview and is warned not to go back to the house.

This ladies and gentleman is where we get the first unpredictable moment in the film, Tess heads back, sees a hidden room in the basement, she finds a stained mattress and a bloody handprint, someone else is in this house.

After finding Keith he goes and investigates the hidden subterranean tunnel, when he doesn’t return Tess goes and finds him, badly beaten he is then killed by a deformed woman known as The Mother.

Mother turns out is a woman who back in the 80s was kidnapped and cruelly tortured by a man named Frank.

This is where we meet the homes current owner AJ, a disgraced sitcom actor accused of raping his female Co star, to afford the extortionate legal fees he is told he needs to sell some of his assets, the Airbnb home included.

He heads to the home and works out the value, discovering the tunnel he now believes this hidden secret room will now up the value.

He discovers Tess who is being held captive by Mother, AJ is then dragged away by her and forced to be breastfed by her, it turns out that the mother wants AJ and Tess to be her children.

AJ escapes mother and finds another doorway, this doorway mother seems scared to go near, opening it we meet Frank, AJ believes Frank to be another victim of mother and tells him he’s going to help him, then Franks true nature is revealed and he winds up killings himself.

AJ and Tess manage to get away with the help of a homeless man, mother promptly deals with him and kills him in a rather gruesome fashion, the two climb up a water tower where AJ pushes Tess off in order to save himself, mother saves Tess and goes all game of thrones on AJ and breaks his skull.

Cradling Tess mother sheds a tear, Tess then kills Mother by shooting her with Franks revolver.

We are then treated to one of the most out of place songs in this film, Be My Baby by The Ronettes as the credits roll.

I honestly wasn’t expecting this film to be really good, I was really surprised by it, I saw the trailer and it didn’t give anything away, it led me to believe that Keith (played by Bill Skarsgård) was the villain, but alas it took a route I really was not fully prepared for.

Mother is by far one of the most terrifying monsters I’ve seen in any horror movie (the entity in Smile is a close second) the way she looked from the first moment you saw her is truly the stuff of nightmares.

The scares were brilliant as well, most horror films really use the jump scare to death, but this film relies on tension as well as couple of jump scares here and there, it doesn’t overdo it which I found to be a massive breath of fresh air.

If you love horror then Barbarian is definitely a go too film for you, it has everything… a terrifying monster, terrific scares and a ton of tension enough to put anyone on the edge of their seat, it gets a massive 10/10 from me, check it out you honestly won’t be disappointed!

As always… catch ya later 🙂