The Retreat2021
“The only way out is to fight.”
Directed by Pat Mills
🏆 1 win & 4 nominations total
The premise
Renee and Valerie, a couple at a cross roads in their relationship, leave the city to spend the week at a remote cabin with friends. But when they arrive, their friends are nowhere to be found. As they stumble through their relationship woes, they discover they are being hunted by a group of militant extremists who are determined to exterminate them.
Horror Vault's take
A lesbian couple hoping a remote cabin getaway might help mend their fraying relationship instead find themselves plunged into a nightmare when their friends fail to show and something far more sinister closes in around them. What begins as emotional tension between two women trying to reconnect quickly escalates into a brutal fight for survival against a ruthless and ideologically motivated threat. The film uses its wilderness setting to ratchet up claustrophobic dread, offering little refuge and no easy escape. It's a visceral genre entry that puts LGBTQ+ lives explicitly at the centre of the horror.
Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Axe Violence, Themes Of Homophobia And Hate Crime, Peril Targeting Lgbtq+ Characters
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