New Horror Movies That Flopped In 2022
Four years after his sci-fi horror feature, “Annihilation,” writer-director Alex Garland took a sharp turn from the realms of science fiction for “Men.” Starring Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear in (multiple) lead roles, Garland’s folk-horror feature received a mixed-to-positive response from critics. General audiences, however, didn’t seem to care much for it.
The film follows the recently widowed Harper (Buckley), who rents a country cottage after the sudden death of her abusive husband. The peaceful solitude of the countryside is ripped apart by strange and terrifying encounters with the men of the local village, all played by Kinnear through costuming and digital effects. Garland’s narrative approach to themes of gendered violence is a mixed bag in the eyes of some critics, but it did receive praise for Buckley and Kinnear’s performances as well as its outlandish and unsettling visual direction.
Official production budget figures aren’t readily available for “Men,” but