Unwelcome - Jon Wright - 2023

★★★★-Yet another reason I'm an anti-natalist and will never celebrate pregnancy. Little magical goblins that demand a blood sacrifice or they run amuck. Basically what it's like living with senior dogs.

Love an Irish folktale yarn, though it seems like most of the Irish movies I've seen are about a mythical creature known for stealing babies. This is an Interesting flick.  I really liked it. Basically two stories. Outsider married couple who are dealing with trauma get harassed by the yocals which culminates in a home invasion situation where the wife has to fight and give birth at the same time. 

The yocals are really something. A family of laborers the couple hires to fix the roof and renovate the kitchen start doing what dumb inbreds do. One of them, as soon as we meet him, goes through their drawers while taking a shit, which he doesn't flush, and finds a vibrator. Turns it on, smells it, licks it. Fucking sick. The patriarch insists everyone call him “Daddy.” Daddy is played by Colm Meaney from the John Huston movie The Dead, however, most probably know him from his role as Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The daughter is violent and mean. Hodor is rapey. And it quickly escalates from there. 

The male lead, played by one Douglas Booth, is pretty much worthless and a piece of shit. Gets emasculated and takes it out on his pregnant wife, whom he thinks is breaking down mentally. Then it's time to fight or die, and dude basically chooses die. Wife ends up making a sacrifice for him that isn't worth it. You root for the home invaders a little bit when you realize how it's gonna end. And then the end comes around, and it is super weird. One of the weirder endings to a movie I've ever seen, and I have seen some shit. 

The pregnant wife is played by Hannah John-Kamen. She was in Ready Player One and Ant-Man and The Wasp. Nice strong female lead. I loved her in this movie. Got some talent, this one. 

Overall, I think the tone was a little all over the place, but it was still a solid flick. Not as good as the previous Jon Wright movie I watched, Grabbers, which was firmly in camp territory. But it was more than passable. Nothing too groundbreaking, but it is super memorable and I think more people will like this than not.