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''Fresh'' is a HorrorComedy film directed by Mimi Cave. It screened at Sandbox/{{Sundance}} before being picked up by Creator/SearchlightPictures for a release on March 4, 2022 on Creator/{{Hulu}}.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When she takes him home, Noa asks if she can get Steve anything to drink -- or eat? Steve, who just turned down sex, replies: "No, just you".
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** When she takes him home, Noa asks if she can get Steve anything to drink -- or eat? Steve, who just turned down sex, replies: "No, justyou".you".
** When Noa is having short ribs, Steve declines trying some because he doesn't eat "[[ExactWords animals]]", and is suspiciously eager to see Noa eat a lot.
** When she takes him home, Noa asks if she can get Steve anything to drink -- or eat? Steve, who just turned down sex, replies: "No, just
** When Noa is having short ribs, Steve declines trying some because he doesn't eat "[[ExactWords animals]]", and is suspiciously eager to see Noa eat a lot.
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** [[spoiler:Subverted by Noa, who had genuine feelings for Steve before she found out he was really Brendan. She then pretends to be developing sincere feelings for him as she's aware of his feelings for her, but it's all a lie so she can get into a position where she can bite his penis off.]]
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** [[spoiler:Subverted by Noa, who had genuine feelings for Steve before she found out he was really Brendan. She then pretends to be developing sincere feelings for him as she's aware of his feelings for her, but it's all a lie so she can get into a position where she can bite his penis testicles off.]]
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** There is no visible change to Noa's appearance, even after she has spent days - if not weeks - locked in a cellar, chained up, and physically and emotionally tortured.
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* BreastAttack: It's [[ImpliedTrope implied]] that [[spoiler:Mollie]]'s breasts were cut off. [[spoiler: And fed to Noa.]]
* BunkerWoman: [[spoiler:Steve imprisons women in an adapted multi-room basement or harem of some kind]].
* ButNotTooBi: Mollie mentions that she prefers dating women, but has an ex boyfriend whom she slightly regrets breaking up with, and is only really seen finding guys cute.
* BunkerWoman: [[spoiler:Steve imprisons women in an adapted multi-room basement or harem of some kind]].
* ButNotTooBi: Mollie mentions that she prefers dating women, but has an ex boyfriend whom she slightly regrets breaking up with, and is only really seen finding guys cute.
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* BreastAttack: It's [[ImpliedTrope implied]] {{implied|Trope}} that [[spoiler:Mollie]]'s breasts were cut off. [[spoiler: And off [[spoiler:and fed to Noa.Noa]].
* BunkerWoman: [[spoiler:Steve imprisons women in an adapted multi-room basement or harem of some kind.]]
* BunkerWoman: [[spoiler:Steve imprisons women in an adapted multi-room basement or harem of some kind]].
* ButNotTooBi: Mollie mentions that she prefers dating women, but has an ex boyfriend ex-boyfriend whom she slightly regrets breaking up with, and is only really seen finding guys cute.
* BunkerWoman: [[spoiler:Steve imprisons women in an adapted multi-room basement or harem of some kind.]]
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* EvilCripple: [[spoiler:Ann is missing a leg and she occasionally helps Steve with his many crimes]].
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* EvilCripple: [[spoiler:Ann [[spoiler:Ann]] is missing a leg and she [[spoiler:she occasionally helps Steve with his many crimes]].
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** Steve [[spoiler:recovers equally quickly after Noa bites off his testicles and then still manages to go outside and attack the women.]]
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** Steve [[spoiler:recovers equally quickly after Noa bites off his testicles and then still manages to go outside and attack the women.]]women]].
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** Steve [[spoiler:recovers equally quickly after Noa bites off his testicles.]]
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* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler:Ann. She aids Steve, and her missing leg implies that she's a former victim. Even when she seems genuinely grateful that he's dead, she still tries to strangle Noa.]]
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* StockholmSyndrome: StockholmSyndrome:
** [[spoiler:Ann. She aids Steve, and her missing leg implies that she's a former victim. Even when she seems genuinely grateful that he's dead, she still tries to strangle Noa.]]]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted by Noa, who had genuine feelings for Steve before she found out he was really Brendan. She then pretends to be developing sincere feelings for him as she's aware of his feelings for her, but it's all a lie so she can get into a position where she can bite his penis off.]]
** [[spoiler:Ann. She aids Steve, and her missing leg implies that she's a former victim. Even when she seems genuinely grateful that he's dead, she still tries to strangle Noa.
** [[spoiler:Subverted by Noa, who had genuine feelings for Steve before she found out he was really Brendan. She then pretends to be developing sincere feelings for him as she's aware of his feelings for her, but it's all a lie so she can get into a position where she can bite his penis off.]]
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** Steve [[spoiler:recovers equally quickly after Noa bites off his penis. While some of it can be chalked up to adrenaline, he manages to follow Noa and the other women and get a pretty solid drop on attacking them before he
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** Steve [[spoiler:recovers equally quickly after Noa bites off his penis. While some of it can be chalked up to adrenaline, he manages to follow Noa and the other women and get a pretty solid drop on attacking them before he testicles.]]
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** Although Steve is a doctor so Noa is on a lot of painkillers, she's still able to walk around, sit down, and go down on him after she's had her ass cut off.
** Steve [[spoiler:recovers equally quickly after Noa bites off his penis. While some of it can be chalked up to adrenaline, he manages to follow Noa and the other women and get a pretty solid drop on attacking them before he
** Although Steve is a doctor so Noa is on a lot of painkillers, she's still able to walk around, sit down, and go down on him after she's had her ass cut off.
** Steve [[spoiler:recovers equally quickly after Noa bites off his penis. While some of it can be chalked up to adrenaline, he manages to follow Noa and the other women and get a pretty solid drop on attacking them before he
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* CellPhonesAreUseless: Noa's phone doesn't work as soon as she gets to Steve's place (though it makes sense that he would block it).
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* GayBestFriend: A variant. Mollie is bisexual, and she is mostly Noa's best friend whose job is to look for Noa after she gets kidnapped.
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** Noa's early attempts at escape is just her panicking and trying to break steel chains with her own strength.
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** Noa's early attempts first attempt at escape is just her panicking and trying to break steel chains with her own strength.strength, but then her first planned escape attempt is still just trying to break the steel chains and run away.
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* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:Noa pretends to go down on Steve so she can bite his testicles off. As a result, he spends maybe a minute screaming before he can follow her.]]
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* IronicName: When she first tries human meat, Steve tells Noa that the person they're eating was named Hope, and points out the irony. The next dinner date, Noa asks who they're eating, and he replies "Melissa", which is the name of a woman two cells down who has stopped singing to herself lately, so to hide her horror Noa bursts out laughing and declares that she expected the trope to be at work in that she was named "Joy" or something.
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* PoliceAreUseless: When Paul suggests Mollie report Noa's disappearance to the cops, arguing that "she's white, isn't she?" Mollie laughs him off.
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** PlayedWith by the plot. Steve's surviving victims are two white women, one black woman, and one Asian woman, but his trophy wall (and his walk-in freezer) indicate that most of his victims have been white women, and the vast majority didn't survive.
* PoliceAreUseless: When Paul suggests Mollie report Noa's disappearance to the cops, arguing that "she's white, isn'tshe?" she?". Mollie laughs him off.off.
* RealMenCook: To ease her fears about the prospects of being locked in a cellar and gradually fed to cannibals until she dies, Steve tells Noa he'll cook for her, which he surmises no one has ever done for her. When she expresses curiosity about his culinary preferences, he cooks her a meal.
* PoliceAreUseless: When Paul suggests Mollie report Noa's disappearance to the cops, arguing that "she's white, isn't
* RealMenCook: To ease her fears about the prospects of being locked in a cellar and gradually fed to cannibals until she dies, Steve tells Noa he'll cook for her, which he surmises no one has ever done for her. When she expresses curiosity about his culinary preferences, he cooks her a meal.
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* ShoutOut: While Mollie and Noa discuss Noa's love life, they mention being "indoctrinated" about men by [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]] and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]].
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** While Mollie and Noa discuss Noa's love life, they mention being "indoctrinated" about men by [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]] and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeastBelle]].Belle]].
** Penny thinks it's unlikely that she's hallucinating Noa, because she doesn't think her subconscious would have named her imaginary friend "Noah", but rather Creator/SeanConnery.
** While Mollie and Noa discuss Noa's love life, they mention being "indoctrinated" about men by [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]] and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast
** Penny thinks it's unlikely that she's hallucinating Noa, because she doesn't think her subconscious would have named her imaginary friend "Noah", but rather Creator/SeanConnery.
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Millennial orphan Noa (Daisy Edgar Jones) goes on a date with handsome cosmetic surgeon Steve (Creator/SebastianStan), who is not what he appears to be.
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Millennial orphan Noa (Daisy Edgar Jones) goes on has trouble finding a date with likeable man. Her friend Mollie (Jonica T. Gribbs) encourages her to be more outgoing, and when she runs into handsome and charming cosmetic surgeon Steve (Creator/SebastianStan), who is not what she goes for it and lets him take her to his cottage for the weekend. There, he appears to be.reveals his true colors.
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* GenreSavvy: Chad. He arrives at the cabin in the middle of the woods just as the girls are escaping. Unfortunately, he misses that, as he remembers what happens when a black guy in a movie tries to enter the abandoned mansion in the middle of nowhere, and he drives away.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When she takes him home, Noa asks if she can get Steve anything to drink -- or eat? Steve, who just turned down sex, replies: "No, just you".
* GenreSavvy:Chad.Paul. He arrives at the cabin in the middle of the woods just as the girls are escaping. Unfortunately, he misses that, as he remembers what happens when a black guy in a movie tries to enter the abandoned mansion in the middle of nowhere, and he drives away.
* GenreSavvy:
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* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: After trying to expose Brendan in front of his wife, Mollie really has no way out of this.
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* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: After trying to expose Brendan "Brendan" in front of his wife, Mollie really has no way out of this.
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** Invoked by Chad Paul when he tells Mollie to go to the police and tell them a white woman has gone missing.
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* PoliceAreUseless: When Chad suggests Mollie report Noa's disappearance to the cops, arguing that "she's white, isn't she?" Mollie laughs him off.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Chad ''almost'' comes to Mollie's rescue, but decides this at the last minute.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Chad ''almost'' comes to Mollie's rescue, but decides this at the last minute.
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* PoliceAreUseless: When Chad Paul suggests Mollie report Noa's disappearance to the cops, arguing that "she's white, isn't she?" Mollie laughs him off.
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere:Chad Paul ''almost'' comes to Mollie's rescue, but decides this at the last minute.minute.
* ShoutOut: While Mollie and Noa discuss Noa's love life, they mention being "indoctrinated" about men by [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]] and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]].
* ScrewThisImOutOfHere:
* ShoutOut: While Mollie and Noa discuss Noa's love life, they mention being "indoctrinated" about men by [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]] and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]].
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* AnArmAndALeg:
** All the victims are slowly dismembered because [[spoiler:the meat tastes better fresh]].
** Or in Steve's case, [[spoiler:testicles]].
** It's implied that Mollie's [[spoiler:breasts were cut off. And fed to Noa.]]
** All the victims are slowly dismembered because [[spoiler:the meat tastes better fresh]].
** Or in Steve's case, [[spoiler:testicles]].
** It's implied that Mollie's [[spoiler:breasts were cut off. And fed to Noa.]]
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* AnArmAndALeg:
**AnArmAndALeg: All the victims are slowly dismembered because [[spoiler:the meat tastes better fresh]].
** Or in Steve's case, [[spoiler:testicles]].
** It's implied that Mollie's [[spoiler:breasts were cut off. And fed to Noa.]]fresh]].
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** Or in Steve's case, [[spoiler:testicles]].
** It's implied that Mollie's [[spoiler:breasts were cut off. And fed to Noa.]]
* BreastAttack: It's [[ImpliedTrope implied]] that [[spoiler:Mollie]]'s breasts were cut off. [[spoiler: And fed to Noa.]]
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* DoesNotLikeMen: Steve only kidnaps women, because they ''taste'' better.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough:
** Noa's early attempts at escape is just her panicking and trying to break steel chains with her own strength.
** Mollie suspects that the man whose house she is in has kidnapped her friend. She tests her theory by calling her friend's phone. It rings in his pocket, just like she thought it might, confirming her theory.
** For Steve, letting a budding cannibal go down on him is a ballsy move to say the least.
** Noa's early attempts at escape is just her panicking and trying to break steel chains with her own strength.
** Mollie suspects that the man whose house she is in has kidnapped her friend. She tests her theory by calling her friend's phone. It rings in his pocket, just like she thought it might, confirming her theory.
** For Steve, letting a budding cannibal go down on him is a ballsy move to say the least.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: There is no visible change to Noa's appearance, even after she has spent days - if not weeks - locked in a cellar, chained up, and physically and emotionally tortured.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: BeautyIsNeverTarnished:
** There is no visible change to Noa's appearance, even after she has spent days - if not weeks - locked in a cellar, chained up, and physically and emotionallytortured. tortured.
** Penny as well, despite having been in captivity longer and not having Steve's favor like Noa.
** There is no visible change to Noa's appearance, even after she has spent days - if not weeks - locked in a cellar, chained up, and physically and emotionally
** Penny as well, despite having been in captivity longer and not having Steve's favor like Noa.
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* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Chad ''almost'' comes to Mollie's rescue, but decides this at the last minute.
* StalkerWithACrush: Despite only pretending to be this, Steve sometimes ends up liking his victims in a romantic way, such as [[spoiler:his wife Ann, Noa herself, and the woman who wrote in the fashion magazine, as well as any who saw that note before Noa.]]
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Steve romances women to get them alone in his cabin, always for their meat. It's implied that he stalked them on social media first to find the loneliest ones.
* StalkerWithACrush: Despite only pretending to be this, Steve sometimes ends up liking his victims in a romantic way, such as [[spoiler:his wife Ann, Noa herself, and the woman who wrote in the fashion magazine, as well as any who saw that note before Noa.]]
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Steve romances women to get them alone in his cabin, always for their meat. It's implied that he stalked them on social media first to find the loneliest ones.
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* AffablyEvil: Steve is a total monster, but he is genuinely ''nice'' to Noa throughout, even being charming to her when [[spoiler:he's cutting off her ''ass''.]]
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* AffablyEvil: Steve is a total monster, but he is genuinely ''nice'' to Noa throughout, even being charming to her when [[spoiler:he's cutting off her ''ass''.]]''ass'']].
* AnArmAndALeg:
** All the victims are slowly dismembered because [[spoiler:the meat tastes better fresh]].
** Or in Steve's case, [[spoiler:testicles]].
* AnArmAndALeg:
** All the victims are slowly dismembered because [[spoiler:the meat tastes better fresh]].
** Or in Steve's case, [[spoiler:testicles]].
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* BunkerWoman: [[spoiler:Steve imprisons women in an adapted multi-room basement or harem of some kind.]]
* CastingGag: Daisy Edgar-Jones as a young modern woman struggling with dating a man with unusual sexual appetites? It could be ''Literature/NormalPeople'' (with a big twist).
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* BunkerWoman: [[spoiler:Steve imprisons women in an adapted multi-room basement or harem of some kind.]]
kind]].
* CastingGag: Daisy Edgar-Jones as a young modern woman struggling with dating a man with unusual sexual appetites? It could be''Literature/NormalPeople'' (with a big twist).''Literature/NormalPeople''.
* CastingGag: Daisy Edgar-Jones as a young modern woman struggling with dating a man with unusual sexual appetites? It could be
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* EvilCripple: [[spoiler:Ann is missing a leg and she occasionally helps Steve with his many crimes.]]
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* EvilCripple: [[spoiler:Ann is missing a leg and she occasionally helps Steve with his many crimes.]] crimes]].
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: As the amount of spoilers on the page might indicate, this is not just a cute romantic dramedy. [[spoiler:it's actually a horror movie about Steve's imprisonment of Noa and her continued struggle to survive.]]
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: As the amount of spoilers on the page might indicate, this is not just a cute romantic dramedy. [[spoiler:it's [[spoiler:It's actually a horror movie about Steve's imprisonment of Noa and her continued struggle to survive.]]
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** [[spoiler:Steve.[[spoiler:Steve/Brendan.]]
** [[spoiler:Noa, albeit only to gain her captor's trust.]]
** [[spoiler:Noa, albeit only to gain her captor's trust.]]
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* LimaSyndrome: Steve does genuinely have feelings for Noa, it just doesn't stop...anything else he does.
* MadDoctor: Steve is a doctor [[spoiler:who imprisons, cannibalises, and murders multiple women.]]
* MadDoctor: Steve is a doctor [[spoiler:who imprisons, cannibalises, and murders multiple women.]]
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** Presumably [[spoiler:Ann, since he married her]].
* LimaSyndrome: Steve does genuinely have feelings for Noa, it just doesn't stop... anything else he does.
* MadDoctor: Steve is a doctor and plastic surgeon [[spoiler:who imprisons, cannibalises, and murders multiplewomen.]]women]].
* LimaSyndrome: Steve does genuinely have feelings for Noa, it just doesn't stop... anything else he does.
* MadDoctor: Steve is a doctor and plastic surgeon [[spoiler:who imprisons, cannibalises, and murders multiple
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* AffablyEvil: Steve is a total monster, but he is genuinely "nice" to Noa throughout, even being charming to her when [[spoiler:he's cutting off her ''ass''.]]
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* CastingGag: Daisy Edgar-Jones as a young modern woman struggling with dating a man with...unusual sexual appetites? It could be ''Literature/NormalPeople'' (with a big twist).
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Noa is, and it's "convenient" because none of Steve's women have much family, if any.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Noa is, and it's "convenient" because none of Steve's women have much family, if any.
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* CastingGag: Daisy Edgar-Jones as a young modern woman struggling with dating a man with...with unusual sexual appetites? It could be ''Literature/NormalPeople'' (with a big twist).
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Subverted. Noais, and it's "convenient" because none has no living relatives, which makes her a convenient target. None of Steve's women have much family, if any.so it's obviously not that convenient for them.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Subverted. Noa
* ImAHumanitarian:
** [[spoiler:Steve.]]
** A number of elites, or "the 1% of the 1%" as one character describes it.
** [[spoiler:Steve.]]
** A number of elites, or "the 1% of the 1%" as one character describes it.
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* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome:
** Invoked by Chad when he tells Mollie to go to the police and tell them a white woman has gone missing.
** Defied by Mollie, who rejects the idea knowing that the evidence she has is too thin to be taken seriously by law enforcement.
* PoliceAreUseless: When Chad suggests Mollie report Noa's disappearance to the cops, arguing that "she's white, isn't she?" Mollie laughs him off.
* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler:Ann. She aids Steve, and her missing leg implies that she's a former victim. Even when she seems genuinely grateful that he's dead, she still tries to strangle Noa.]]
* TokenBlackFriend: Subverted. Noa'sonly ''only'' friend is a Black woman Mollie.
named Mollie.
** Invoked by Chad when he tells Mollie to go to the police and tell them a white woman has gone missing.
** Defied by Mollie, who rejects the idea knowing that the evidence she has is too thin to be taken seriously by law enforcement.
* PoliceAreUseless: When Chad suggests Mollie report Noa's disappearance to the cops, arguing that "she's white, isn't she?" Mollie laughs him off.
* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler:Ann. She aids Steve, and her missing leg implies that she's a former victim. Even when she seems genuinely grateful that he's dead, she still tries to strangle Noa.]]
* TokenBlackFriend: Subverted. Noa's
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* GenreSavvy: Chad. He arrives at the cabin in the middle of the woods just as the girls are escaping. Unfortunately, he misses that, as he remembers what happens when a black guy in a movie tries to enter the abandoned mansion in the middle of nowhere in movies, and he drives away.
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* GenreSavvy: Chad. He arrives at the cabin in the middle of the woods just as the girls are escaping. Unfortunately, he misses that, as he remembers what happens when a black guy in a movie tries to enter the abandoned mansion in the middle of nowhere in movies, nowhere, and he drives away.
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''Fresh'' is a film directed by Mimi Cave. It screened at Sandbox/{{Sundance}} before a release on March 4, 2022 on Creator/{{Hulu}}.
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* CastingGag: Daisy Edgar-Jones as a young modern woman struggling with dating a man with...unusual sexual appetites? It could be ''Literature/NormalPeople'' (with a big twist).
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''Fresh'' is a film directed by Mimi Cave. It screened at Sandbox/{{Sundance}} before a release on March 4, 2022 on Creator/{{Hulu}}.
''Fresh'' is a film directed by Mimi Cave. It screened at Sandbox/{{Sundance}} before a release on March 4, 2022 on Creator/{{Hulu}}.
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Mimi Cave's directorial debut premiered at Sandbox/{{Sundance}} in 2022.
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* AffablyEvil: Steve is a total monster, but he is genuinely "nice" to Not throughout, even being charming to her when [[spoiler:he's cutting off her ''ass''.]]
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* AffablyEvil: Steve is a total monster, but he is genuinely "nice" to Not Noa throughout, even being charming to her when [[spoiler:he's cutting off her ''ass''.]]]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: There is no visible change to Noa's appearance, even after she has spent days - if not weeks - locked in a cellar, chained up, and physically and emotionally tortured.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: There is no visible change to Noa's appearance, even after she has spent days - if not weeks - locked in a cellar, chained up, and physically and emotionally tortured.
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* EvilCripple: [[spoiler:Ann is missing a leg and she occasionally helps Steve with his many crimes.]]
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* TokenBlackFriend: Noa's only friend is Black woman Mollie.
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: As the amount of spoilers on the page might indicate, this is not just a cute romantic dramedy. [[spoiler:it's actually a horror movie about Steve's imprisonment of Noa and her continued struggle to survive.]]
* LimaSyndrome: Steve does genuinely have feelings for Noa, it just doesn't stop...anything else he does.
* MadDoctor: Steve is a doctor [[spoiler:who imprisons, cannibalises, and murders multiple women.]]
* TokenBlackFriend: Noa's only friend is Black womanMollie.Mollie.
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* LimaSyndrome: Steve does genuinely have feelings for Noa, it just doesn't stop...anything else he does.
* MadDoctor: Steve is a doctor [[spoiler:who imprisons, cannibalises, and murders multiple women.]]
* TokenBlackFriend: Noa's only friend is Black woman
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Millennial orphan Noa (Creator/DaisyEdgarJones) goes on a date with handsome cosmetic surgeon Steve (Creator/SebastianStan), who is not what he appears to be.
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* BunkerWoman: [[spoiler:Steve imprisons women in an adapted multi-room basement or harem of some kind.]]
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Noa is, and it's "convenient" because none of Steve's women have much family, if any.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Noa is, and it's "convenient" because none of Steve's women have much family, if any.
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Mimi Cave's directorial debut premiered at Sandbox/{{Sundance}} in 2022.
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* AffablyEvil: Steve is a total monster, but he is genuinely "nice" to Not throughout, even being charming to her when [[spoiler:he's cutting off her ''ass''.]]
* TokenBlackFriend: Noa's only friend is Black woman Mollie.
* AffablyEvil: Steve is a total monster, but he is genuinely "nice" to Not throughout, even being charming to her when [[spoiler:he's cutting off her ''ass''.]]
* TokenBlackFriend: Noa's only friend is Black woman Mollie.
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