Rent Tonight She Comes (2016)

An intense ride into uncertain horror - Tonight She Comes review by NP

Tonight she comes

Bodily fluids and gore, with a Tangerine Dream-style score.

This darn thing starts off oddly and gets a good deal weirder, almost as if director and writer Matt Stuertz is out to tick as many ‘offensive’ (whatever that truly means) boxes as he can. If that is his intent, he makes a good effort.

We meet the dreaded ‘group of friends’. As usual, their number comprise of the drunken and the horny – but they are strangely appealing and quite funny too, despite dialogue that indicates their desire for sex overrides all concerns for their safety. So it’s a true shock when those you expect to make it to the final reel end up dispatched partway through, and in a fairly gory fashion too.

The gross concepts, carried out with a suitably gratuitous flourish, overwhelm the storyline, especially towards the shock-stacked ending. However, there are enough horrifically scenic moments and visuals not to let that bother us too much.

All the cast put in powerful performances (especially Larissa White as Ashley, Jenna McDonald as Felicity and Nathan Eswine as James), really buying into the growing series of extremes Stuertz has dreamed up. Brutal and ultimately often open to interpretation, I found myself tangled up in this gleeful weirdness. Maybe you will too, but it’s far from certain. My score is 7 out of 10.