HorroRated archive entry
Nightbitch
HorroRated verdict
- Directed by
- Marielle Heller
- Written by
- Marielle Heller, Rachel Yoder
- Produced by
- Marielle Heller, Christina Oh, Sue Naegle, Anne Carey, Rachel Yoder, Allison Rose Carter, Adam Paulsen, Megan Ellison, Sammy Scher, Stacy O'Neil, Amy Adams, Havilah Brewster, Kathleen Clifford, Lizzie Racklin, Raina Seyd, Olivia Isebel Comas Wood, Karen Garner, Billy Becket, Chris Spry, Jessica Harrison
Why it’s HorroRated
Nightbitch is a horror comedy about the rage and isolation of early motherhood that makes its monster literal without losing the metaphor. Marielle Heller directs with the same observational intelligence she's brought to her previous work and Jennifer Aniston's performance is the kind that resets what you thought a performer was capable of. A sharp and funny and genuinely unsettling film.
Synopsis
Marielle Heller's film is a metamorphosis horror that operates as a comedy of domestic dissatisfaction before the genre elements make the metaphor literal. Jennifer Aniston's performance is the kind that resets what you thought a performer was capable of. Sharp and unsettling in equal measure.
