Jude Law Shines In “Expertly chilled” Psychological Thriller Climbing Netflix Movie Charts
There’s nothing more exciting to me than when a movie I love—one that has flown under the radar—suddenly lands big on streaming. Better still, if that movie stars Carrie Coon (whom I’ve adored since The Leftovers), I’m over the moon. Well, as luck would have it, Sean Durkin’s The Nest, a 2020 psychodrama, has just cracked the Top 10 on Netflix. Why? Couldn’t tell you, but I’m not complaining. The Nest is chilling stuff, anchored by two ferocious performances from both Coon and Jude Law. Check out a trailer and synopsis below:
Per Netflix: In the ‘80s, an entrepreneur convinces his wife to move to a country manor in England. But the family unravels when she begins to see his true colors.
What’s most remarkable about The Nest is how it fuses domestic melodrama with the bearings of a classic ghost story. Like Durkin’s previous feature, Martha Marcy May Marlene, the horror here is more suggestive, more evocative. It’s never as simple as there being a ghost. Instead, the interiority of a beleaguered wife and her cad of a husband propels The Nest forward with raw, simmering tension. It’s an earnestly haunting melodrama, and while fans of more conventional scares might scoff at its approach, it’s stuck with me since I first saw it several years ago.
Expectedly, Twitter has been in a tizzy dissecting the Netflix chart-topper. With features like The Nest, it’s especially exciting to see how audiences have been responding to it. It’s a hard sell, though when the algorithm somehow aligns, it’s great to see it break out. Check out what some fans have been saying about it online below:
Yeah, a bit of a mixed bag there. I can assure you, stuff does happen. It’s just quiet, simmering stuff. Likely, the genre categorization is to blame—Netflix seems to be pitching it as straight horror—but for fans of moody cinema, it’s worth settling into The Nest.
What do you think? Have you caught The Nest on Netflix yet? What other hidden gems would you recommend? Let me know over on Twitter @Chadiscollins where I’ll likely be talking about Carrie Coon until the day I die.
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