The Scary of Sixty-First

Name: The Scary of Sixty-First
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Comedy
Released: December 3, 2021
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Aaron Dalla Villa, Anna Khachiyan, Betsey Brown, Dasha Nekrasova, Jason Grisell

2021

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Utopia | Release Date: December 3, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Aaron Dalla Villa, Anna Khachiyan, Betsey Brown, Dasha Nekrasova, Jason Grisell, Madeline Quinn, Mark Rapaport, Michael M. Bilandic, Ruby McCollister, Stephen Gurewitz

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Winner of Best First Feature at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival.

Summary: While out apartment hunting, college pals Noelle and Addie stumble upon the deal of a lifetime: a posh duplex on Manhattan's Upper East Side. But soon after moving in, a more sinister picture of the apartment emerges when a mysterious woman arrives and claims the property used to belong to the infamous and recently-deceased Jeffrey Epstein.While out apartment hunting, college pals Noelle and Addie stumble upon the deal of a lifetime: a posh duplex on Manhattan's Upper East Side. But soon after moving in, a more sinister picture of the apartment emerges when a mysterious woman arrives and claims the property used to belong to the infamous and recently-deceased Jeffrey Epstein. With this news, Noelle becomes obsessed with the visitor—to the point of infatuation. As the pair plunge deeper into the conspiracies of the Epstein case, Addie falls into her own bizarre state: a pseudo-possession complete with inexplicable fits of age-regressed sexual mania. As they peel back on these strange occurrences, the truth reveals itself to be more twisted than they could have ever imagined.… Expand

Director: Dasha Nekrasova

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 81 min

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IndieWire Christian Blauvelt

Oct 12, 2021

Equal parts ’70s-style paranoia thriller, Polanski-infused apartment horror, “Eyes Wide Shut” homage, and empathetic critical commentary on the conspiracy theories craze, this hallucinatory pastiche is even more than the sum of its cinematically riveting parts. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Oct 12, 2021

A brash, gutsy, morbidly funny first feature from actor-filmmaker-podcaster Dasha Nekrasova, it runs on a premise that could have been written as a dare, or a prank. Read full review

Lex Briscuso

Dec 20, 2021

It never apologizes for what it is or what it wants to try and do, and that—along with the twists and turns of how the plot unfolds, as wild and nasty and unorthodox as it (and the performances that anchor it) can be—is worth the price of admission. Read full review

Noel Murray

Dec 2, 2021

This film offers a flurry of provocations and up-to-the-minute cultural references that never fully connect. It keeps coming to the brink of saying something clearly and furiously about sex, power and class before retreating back to the simpler path of raw shock value. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Dec 17, 2021

Dasha Nekrasova’s bored gamine onscreen presence is quite funny (she suggests a jaded Emma Watson). But much of the acting here is atrocious and the slash-and-splatter ending disappointingly conventional. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Dec 3, 2021

In the end, I was left feeling like The Scary of Sixty-First was all set-up and no follow-through. Sure, it gets bloody and crazy in ways that will probably turn off some viewers, but it doesn't feel feel like it has something to say about our conspiracy theory culture. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Dec 16, 2021

There were moments during The Scary of Sixty-First when I was convinced I was watching a botched horror-comedy. But while this witless slurry of onanism and conspiracy theories is certainly laughable, it is never, for one second, even remotely funny. Read full review

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