Synopsis
Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.
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Cast
- Betsey BrownAddie
- Madeline QuinnNoelle
- Dasha NekrasovaThe Girl
- Mark H. RapaportGreg
- Jason GrisellApothecary Clerk
- Stephen GurewitzThe Realtor
- Michael M. BilandicGreg's Boss
- Ruby McCollisterMailroom Girl
- Aaron Dalla VillaCrystal Shop Customer
- Anna KhachiyanGhislaine Maxwell Doppelgänger
Recommendations
- 91
IndieWire
Equal parts ’70s-style paranoia thriller, Polanski-infused apartment horror, “Eyes Wide Shut” homage, and empathetic critical commentary on the conspiracy theories craze, this hallucinatory pastiche is even more than the sum of its cinematically riveting parts. - 80
Variety
A brash, gutsy, morbidly funny first feature from actor-filmmaker-podcaster Dasha Nekrasova, it runs on a premise that could have been written as a dare, or a prank. - 78
Paste Magazine
It never apologizes for what it is or what it wants to try and do, and that—along with the twists and turns of how the plot unfolds, as wild and nasty and unorthodox as it (and the performances that anchor it) can be—is worth the price of admission. - 63
Slant Magazine
In a way, the film feels like a true heir to the petulant, low-budget horror cinema of the ‘70s and ‘80s. - 58
The A.V. Club
Nekrasova borrows from the best, courting comparisons to more highbrow pictures like Eyes Wide Shut and The Tenant. But she clearly started with an aim to get a rise out of people, and working backwards from there resulted in some slapdash storytelling. - 50
Los Angeles Times
This film offers a flurry of provocations and up-to-the-minute cultural references that never fully connect. It keeps coming to the brink of saying something clearly and furiously about sex, power and class before retreating back to the simpler path of raw shock value. - 50
RogerEbert.com
In the end, I was left feeling like The Scary of Sixty-First was all set-up and no follow-through. Sure, it gets bloody and crazy in ways that will probably turn off some viewers, but it doesn't feel feel like it has something to say about our conspiracy theory culture. - 50
Original-Cin
Dasha Nekrasova’s bored gamine onscreen presence is quite funny (she suggests a jaded Emma Watson). But much of the acting here is atrocious and the slash-and-splatter ending disappointingly conventional.
