‘Strange Darling’: The Erotic Serial-Killer Thriller That Will Keep You Guessing

Strange Darling opens with a text crawl (narrated by Jason Patric) that explicitly harkens back to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Nonetheless, writer/director JT Mollner’s feature debut teases conventionality while flipping expectations at every turn, delivering a fractured tale of desire, deceit, and the dark hearts that roam this wide-open country.

Ruthlessly surprising and uncompromising—and thus best seen with as little prior knowledge as possible—it’s an electric thriller with blood on its hands, flesh in its mouth, and deviance on its mind.

(Warning: Some spoilers ahead.)

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