Who Invited Them (2022)

a review by Evan Landon

Yes, I should be writing one of my scathing reviews on The Batman, or The Menu, or even the follow up to Glass Onion: The Knives Out Debacle, but instead I watched a movie called, Who Invited Them in the meantime (& yes, I did try my bestest to keep all punctuation correct). Ugggghhh… so, where to start?

Premise? Or what passes for it...? Okay. A couple moves into a home, invite neighbors over, but they are not what they seem. Chaos ensues. Not a very novel approach, I know. But, is it groundbreaking? Naw man. Fuck no. It is much, much more boring than that.

This is a movie made in 2022 that is difficult to describe, so I will put it bluntly: for an intriguing premise (hahahaha), this one falls way too short of the hash mark. Kinda made me stop what I was doing because I did not know how to convey my thoughts. So yeah. Here the fuck we are.

The problem with this movie, as interested as I was for the sustaining run time, there are no acts. There is no story, nor character arcs to latch onto; aside from the fact that the people you are rooting for are almost (if not as bad) as the antagonists (which superfluously gives way to the betrayal of a final act that insultingly made me wish to vomit in my mouth) are respectively the more engaging characters, that is, until the bitter end of this travesty of a film. No, I think my vomit would have been tastier, given the sushi that I ate.

I think writer/director Duncan Birmingham (killer name btw) had himself a bad night once & decided to blow a lot of money on a movie that does not even have Wikipedia presence, nor a Google search history. There is no clue how much money was spent, nor how much was garnered, so I am reluctantly assuming the cash wad spent on this trainwreck is haphazardly a tax write-off for some idiot, unless it is Canada (in which case I apologize to the entire country that this movie exists).

Who Invited Them is quite possibly the thing I needed to cleanse my palate of bullshit movies I have been subjected to because at least it is a bullshit movie that is original. The only problem is that it sucks.

Still, I would watch it again bc my cat's name is Sasha... On second thought, no, fuck that. Not worth it. It appears that it streamed to some high critical praise, but my advice is too skip it. There are other inane conversations with a plant that you would find more interesting.

1.5 out of 5