Two roommates' lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret in this paranoia...
Two roommates' lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret in this paranoia horror. Winner of Best First Feature at Berlinale 2021.
While out apartment hunting, college pals Noelle and Addie stumble upon the deal of a lifetime: a posh duplex on Manhattan's Upper East Side. But soon after moving in, a more sinister picture of the apartment emerges when a mysterious woman arrives and claims the property used to belong to the infamous and recently-deceased Jeffrey Epstein.
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54 %41 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
45 %33 reviewsAudience score rating
"The glib levity of The Scary of Sixty-First makes it nothing short of obscene."
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Little White Lies
Little White Lies"Underpinning the edgelord provocations and cheerfully cheap B-movie stylings... is a dark, roiling rage that’s no joke..."
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Variety
Variety"A shallow provocation."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"The Scary of Sixty-First will feel like cheap provocation to some... and it doesn’t have much of substance to say about trauma, abuse of power, or the conspiracy mindset. But there’s defiance in its gleeful excess..."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"Dasha Nekrasova's directorial debut makes compelling horror out of a web of real-life conspiracy theories."
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IndieWire
IndieWire"There’s just not enough humour, tension, or character to lend all this gleeful offensiveness any real weight."
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A.V. Club
A.V. Club"Ambition trumps coherence..."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"Sure, it gets bloody and crazy in ways that will probably turn off some viewers, but it doesn't feel feel like it has something to say about our conspiracy theory culture."
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RogerEbert.com
RogerEbert.comThe Scary of Sixty-First | Details
- Rating
- R18+, High impact themes
- Runtime
- 81
- Genre
- Horror, Thriller
- Country of origin
- USA
