Addie and Noelle are introduced doing something city dwellers know is truly horrifying: apartment hunting. Everything changes for both women when an unnamed stranger knocks on their door. The Girl tells Noelle that she believes they're living in a place that has seen untold horrors. One of the apartments in which Jeffrey Epstein used to traffic and abuse girls. Before they know it, they enter a world of conspiracy theories about Epstein and his apartments.... (Full plot summary below)
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Addie and Noelle are introduced doing something city dwellers know is truly horrifying: apartment hunting. Everything changes for both women when an unnamed stranger knocks on their door. The Girl tells Noelle that she believes they're living in a place that has seen untold horrors. One of the apartments in which Jeffrey Epstein used to traffic and abuse girls. Before they know it, they enter a world of conspiracy theories about Epstein and his apartments.
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| IndieWireChristian BlauveltEqual 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. |
| Paste MagazineLex BriscusoIt 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. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeA 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. |
| The A.V. ClubAnya StanleyNekrasova borrows from the best, courting comparisons to more highbrow pictures like Eyes Wide Shut and The Tenant. But she clearly started with an aim to get a rise out of people, and working backwards from there resulted in some slapdash storytelling. |
| Slant MagazineDavid RobbIn a way, the film feels like a true heir to the petulant, low-budget horror cinema of the ‘70s and ‘80s. |
| Original-CinLiam LaceyDasha 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. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThis 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. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoIn 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. |
| The GuardianCath ClarkeTo me this feels like a silly smirking film with zero insights into abuse or conspiracy theories. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJourdain SearlesThe Epstein conspiracy here is ultimately merely an excuse for taboo fetish play, culminating in a bloody finale that any viewer could see from a mile away. In the end, Nekrasova is too preoccupied with cultural relevance to actually craft a compelling film. |
