Barbie star's new movie debuts with 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating
Barbie star Hari Nef's upcoming movie Bad Things has just landed a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score following its Tribeca Film Festival premiere.
Directed by Stewart Thorndike, the film stars GLOW's Gayle Rankin as protagonist Ruthie, who has just inherited a 1980s motel from her grandma.
This gift comes with a broken mother-daughter relationship looking to be mended and a last trip to the property with her partner Cal (Nef) and their friends Maddie (Rad Pereira) and Fran (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), who risk upending their lives.
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After the film's debut, critics have hailed Thorndike's movie as a fascinating addition to the queer horror canon, one giving unlikeable female characters their time to shine and do terrible things. Though its Rotten Tomatoes score is likely to change once more reviews are in, it looks like Bad Things will be one to watch when it starts streaming on Shudder in August.
"The film's lo-fi quality and stellar cast chemistry makes the feature an easily watchable horror film," IndieWire's review reads.
"It is, admirably, a film where two-dimensional, 'likeable' women characters are blissfully absent, and Thorndike is very much in her comfort zone giving air time to the kinds of women that normally get reduced to villains or ignored completely," Alliance of Women Film Journalists said in its review.
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Known for the role of Sheila in the gone-too-soon GLOW, Rankin will next be seen in the second season of HBO's fantasy drama House of the Dragon.
The Game of Thrones prequel, whose season 2 pre-production has been paused due to the ongoing writers' strike, will get in the thick of the Targaryen civil war in its upcoming instalment.
Rankin is set to play healer Alys Rivers, with Slow Horses' Freddie Fox, Raised by Wolves' Abubakar Salim and Penny Dreadful's Simon Russell Beale also joining the huge cast in new roles.
Bad Things will start streaming on Shudder on August 25.
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