After the US start in September 2022, a considerable hype around Barbarian quickly developed. Zach Cregger’s horror film secured the top of the cinema charts on the first weekend and, according to Box Office Mojo, started $ 45 million worldwide, with a budget of $ 4.5 million.
On Wednesday evening, Tele 5 radiates Barbarian on German television for the first time. After the trailer mainly shows scenes from the first 20 to 30 minutes of the film, you should be as unprepared as possible on the same Violent and entertaining horror-roller train ride Get in.
Horror cracker on TV: This is what Barbarian is doing
In the film of the film, Tess (Georgina Campbell) arrives late in Detroit when the rain is pouring, where she has an interview the next morning. She booked an Airbnb for one night, but then a man opens the door who surprisingly occupies the apartment. After Tess consented to share the house for a night with the mysterious Keith (Bill Skarsgård), She comes across a gruesome secret in the basement during the night.
Barbarian surprises until the final with a violent mix of horror and humor
It would be fatal to reveal more, because Zach Cregger’s film lives from his wild unpredictability. At some point it even seems as if a completely new film will start right in the middle when Justin Long is also introduced as an actor Cale, who is involved in a #metoo controversy.
With the mixing of shocking horror and loosening humor, Zach Cregger’s style sometimes reminds Jordan Peele’s great genre breakthrough. The director in Barbarian keeps playing a new direction in Barbarian. The film sometimes changes within a very short time From big laughs to pure shock rigid and back again.
According to Alfred Hitchcock’s psycho, shower curtains were never the same and after Zach Cregger Barbarian you are considering the next Airbnb booking more than twice.
When does Barbarian run on TV?
Tele 5 shines the horror cracker on February 12, 2025 at 10:05 p.m. out of. The film runs with advertising until 00:20. Alternatively, you can only borrow or buy Barbarian from VoD providers like Amazon Prime. It is currently nowhere available in a flat.
This article was first published on Moviepilot in December 2022.