Star Rory Kinnear walks us through the haunting, phantasmagoric finale to the new horror film from writer-director Garland.
Warning: This article contains spoilers forMen.
Slowly, though, it builds to a steady level of dread.
Jessie Buckley wielding a bloody knife in ‘Men.'.Kevin Baker/A24
What does it mean?
That stigmata-like wound is echoed in the blow Harper deals to the men later.
Well, it’s more about Harper’s experience.
Rory Kinnear playing one of his many characters in ‘Men.'.Kevin Baker/A24
Therefore,howshe sees all these men that she meets is through the prism of that experience."
Other freaky moments abound inMen’s final half hour.
Foremost among them is when a bird flies through the kitchen window and dies on the table.
“We had two weeks before we started filming that was just me, Jessie, and Alex.
The squeaky crow mask was an idea on the day.”
But that wasn’t the only wrinkle of filming such a scene in the rural countryside.
“I vocalized nearly all the births myself,” he recalls.
I had presumably woken them up and they weren’t that pleased about it.
But also they could sense a fellow beast in distress.
We had to wait for them to quiet down."
Menis in theaters now, distributed by A24.
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