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- 2021
- Not Rated
- Shudder
- 1 h 23 m
- 2021
- Not Rated
- Shudder
- 1 h 23 m
Summary A suburban woman fights to be believed as she finds herself stalked by a threatening figure who returns to her house night after night. When she can't get help from those around her, she is forced to take matters into her own hands.
Directed By: Natasha Kermani
Written By: Brea Grant
- 2021
- Not Rated
- Shudder
- 1 h 23 m
- 2021
- Not Rated
- Shudder
- 1 h 23 m
Lucky
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Summary A suburban woman fights to be believed as she finds herself stalked by a threatening figure who returns to her house night after night. When she can't get help from those around her, she is forced to take matters into her own hands.
Directed By: Natasha Kermani
Written By: Brea Grant
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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86% Positive
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14% Mixed
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Lucky indulges in all of the horror movie "tropes" but it does so with a purpose.
Lucky is not perfect, but metaphors rarely are. There are jarring narrative jumps that never resolve and a superficiality and dry humor that keep the intensity fairly low. But the message is a blunt one. And given the heavy topic, this levity works in the film’s favor.
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This clever thriller teeters on the brink of abstraction, and walks a razor wire between horror and an incredulous absurdity meant to stand for how women must live in the modern world: the daily toll of living in fear of aggression, physical assault and withstanding the misogynistic structures that excuse them.
Lucky is not simply not a rape-revenge film. It's a brutal, brilliant rebuttal to the idea of a fit of cathartic violence.
If you know someone who doesn’t quite grasp the emotional terrorism behind concepts like gaslighting and victim-blaming, sit them down with Lucky.
Grant and director Natasha Kermani (“Imitation Girl,””Shattered”) package their “message” into a pretty clever if not all that ambitious thriller, with Grant our stoic heroine, fighting the good fight, night after night, plainly able to “go it alone” but maybe wondering if it’s worth it.
Grant and Kermani skillfully keep the audience in suspense from start to finish, even if it’s just by withholding what the heck is actually happening.
