Genre: Horror/ Thriller/ Drama
Runtime: 100 minutes
Year: 2015
Starring: Logan Marshall-Green, Aiden Lovekamp, Michelle Krusiec, Mike Doyle, Michiel Huisman, Jordy Vilasuso, Jay Larson, Marieh Delfino, Tammy Blanchard, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Lindsay Burdge, John Carroll Lynch, Toby Huss, Danielle Camastra, Trish Gates
Description: Will (Logan Marshall-Green) accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife (Tammy Blanchard), an unsettling affair that reopens old wounds and creates new tensions.
Review: Will and his girlfriend Kira have been invited to a party with his ex-wife Eden and her new partner David. The friends haven’t seen each other for a couple of years. After the death of Will and Eden’s son, the friends lost sight of each other and the two of them separated. The atmosphere during the party is charged. There are all kinds of old feelings between people, there are unknown people present and Eden and David behave rather strangely. Something is about to happen this evening. Or is it just something Will is imagining, because he hasn’t processed the demons from the past yet?
The synopsis of “The Invitation” may not be very original, the execution is. A certain tension is built, which only comes to and end in the last fifteen minutes of the film. Until that time you don’t know exactly what’s going on in that house. You start suspecting people and certain situations seem suspicious. The finale is great, the build-up to it is rather boring and long-winded.
For an hour and fifteen minutes before something exciting finally happens. By that time my attention had slackened quite a bit and I was ready to end it. Every time you think something is going to happen, it doesn’t. And I’m glad that the film ended with a bang, the finale of “The Invitation” is really good, surprising and creepy. But at that time it was already too late and it couldn’t safe the film.
Rating: 2,5 / 5
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