Directed and written by Craig Tuohy, Everyone Is Going to Die is an English home invasion thriller that seems to have spawned as a result of the 'me too' movement of a few years back. With an unlikeable cast, and a story that takes its time to go anywhere, this thriller has its moments, but ultimately didn't grip me.
Businessman Daniel (Brad Moore) has invited his teenage daughter Imogen (Gledisa Arthur - Eastenders TV show) to his remote house to celebrate her sixteenth birthday. It isn't long after she arrives that two others turn up, two armed masked maniacs calling themselves 'Comedy' (Jamie Winstone - Tomb Raider, Dead Set TV show) and 'Tragedy' (Chiara D'Anna). This duo take Daniel and Imogen hostage, threatening to hurt them both if Daniel doesn't go along with the twisted humiliation games they want him to take part in.
From Daniel's persona it is clear that he isn't the best example of a male, cocky, confident and aggressive in equal measures, it might take a while for his demons to be revealed but it was kind of obvious. He didn't make for an endearing protagonist, but saving him is the fact that the antagonists are also not likeable at all. While Tragedy remains masked for much of the movie, Comedy quickly de-masks and then spends the film doing a hateful performance as a dramatic character who wouldn't have felt out of place in a soap opera. It doesn't matter that these villains may turn out to have noble reasons for the invasion when they are both so weird, irritating, and unlikeable. There were a lot of uncomfortable scenes in the movie, mainly revolving around humiliating Daniel in front of his daughter, such as showing her his porn search history, getting him to play with sex toys in front of her, and making her watch as he is forced at gunpoint to be intimate with one of the invaders. Regardless of if Daniel deserved all this or not, it is clear his daughter is an innocent, so it was never that fun having her constantly being threatened.
There are a smattering of special effects, I liked the wound effects on characters, and self-harm being a topic was always going to be interesting, due to my battles with that addiction. The story did seem to drag, even at roughly eighty minutes long I was eager for something more exciting to happen, not helped by the modern looking home being devoid of much detail. The plot does eventually reach its conclusion, but the journey was bizarre, and the invaders strong anti-man rhetoric got a bit exhausting. It all culminates in a ridiculous ending shot that seemed more symbolic than realistic, and left me wandering what the point of the whole film was.
Topics such as toxic masculinity, issues around consent, and feminism are all important ones, but with a cast of horrid people, there wasn't really anyone to root for. This felt slower than it needed to be, and while Everyone Is Going to Die has some good scenes, overall it was just a little dull.
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