We all know by now, that characters in certain kinds of movies are going to make foolish decisions, like going into the creepy basement, running up the stairs to get away from axe murderers, and the like. Here’s a new one to add to the list: Attaching mysterious electrodes to your temples just because a dude with a suitcase asks you to. On what Earth will that ever go well?
According to director Greg Jardin, It’s What’s Inside isn’t a horror movie, despite the screaming, bludgeoning, and alarming lighting choices displayed in the trailer. “I’d say it’s a sci-fi thriller with jokes,” he told Tudum.
The movie’s synopsis is extremely brief: “A group of friends gather for a pre-wedding party that descends into an existential nightmare when an estranged friend arrives with a mysterious game that awakens long-hidden secrets, desires, and grudges.”
Said “mysterious game” does a whole lot of mind swapping, to the point that, late in the trailer, characters are wearing Polaroids of the people they are on the inside. [Editor’s note: They do this in the body-swap episode of Farscape, by the by.] What it all means remains to be seen, but Jardin told Entertainment Weekly:
The central theme that I kept coming back to really revolves around artificial intimacy, that is, how we’ve all become reliant on screens for not only our self-worth, but for our general sense of how we connect with one another on a romantic level. So, in this case, we focus on a relationship in crisis, where both members of the relationship have consumed such a high amount of online artifice, that they each have issues connecting with one another because their collective values have been so warped.
It’s What’s Inside stars Brittany O’Grady (The White Lotus), James Morosini (The Sex Lives of College Girls), Alycia Debnam-Carey (The 100), Devon Terrell (Cursed), Gavin Leatherwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Reina Hardesty (The Flash), Nina Bloomgarden (The Resort), and David Thompson (Gotham). It’s on Netflix October 4th.
