Stoker

4.00
    Stoker
    2013

    Synopsis

    After India Stoker's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

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    Cast

    • Mia WasikowskaIndia Stoker
    • Nicole KidmanEvelyn 'Evie' Stoker
    • Matthew GoodeCharlie Stoker
    • Dermot MulroneyRichard Stoker
    • Jacki WeaverAunt Gwendolyn 'Gin' Stoker
    • Lucas TillChris Pitts
    • Alden EhrenreichWhip Taylor
    • Phyllis SomervilleMrs. McGarrick
    • Ralph BrownSheriff Howard
    • Judith GodrècheDoctor Jacquin

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Empire

      An intense mix of horror, thriller and domestic drama, this is exquisite film making.
    • 83

      IndieWire

      More blatantly an exercise in style than anything on par with the director's crowning achievements, and suffers to some degree from the predictability of its premise.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Park's unsettling visuals and his handling of the cast make the occasional holes in Wentworth Miller's script practically irrelevant.
    • 80

      Variety

      A splendidly demented gumbo of Hitchcock thriller, American Gothic fairy tale and a contemporary kink all Park's own.
    • 80

      The Guardian

      Literary references and symbolism abound in Stoker. You can get tied up trying to figure out who is what. That is the idea. All the clues are there. You just have to look closely.
    • 80

      Total Film

      Park Chan-wook brings operatic finesse to generic material in his tight-wound, wickedly weird US debut. And Mia Wasikowska nails it.
    • 75

      McClatchy-Tribune News Service

      The Hollywood debut of Korean filmmaker Chan-Wook Park (“Oldboy”) is a vivid, short exercise in tone, a movie lacking shocks and huge surprises, but one that makes up for that by creeping us out, from start to finish.
    • 50

      Slant Magazine

      The film's weird mix of dollhouse dread and fashion-magazine chic can be fetching, but it's nothing if not vacuous, a series of disjointed, improvisatory riffs that recall the brazen aesthetic overload of Amer.

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