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Millennial orphan Noa (Creator/DaisyEdgarJones) has trouble finding a 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), she goes for it and lets him take her to his cottage for the weekend. There, he reveals his true colors.
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Millennial orphan Noa (Creator/DaisyEdgarJones) has trouble finding a 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), she goes for it and lets him take her to his cottage for the weekend. There, weekend, only for Steve to reveal he reveals his true colors.
has a...very particular appetite. And then things go wrong. So, so, wrong.
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Millennial orphan Noa (Daisy Edgar Jones) has trouble finding a 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), she goes for it and lets him take her to his cottage for the weekend. There, he reveals his true colors.
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Millennial orphan Noa (Daisy Edgar Jones) (Creator/DaisyEdgarJones) has trouble finding a 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), she goes for it and lets him take her to his cottage for the weekend. There, he reveals his true colors.
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** Sebastian Stan taking advantage of a girl by [[spoiler:having sex with her just to screw with her]]? Could be ''The Bronze''.
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** Sebastian Stan Stan's character taking advantage of a girl by [[spoiler:having sex with her just to screw with her]]? Could be ''The Bronze''.
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* RuleOfThree: Steve serves Noa three [[spoiler:cannibal meals: Hope, Melissa, and Mollie]].
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* RuleOfThree: RuleOfThree:
** Steve makes Noa guess what the drink tastes like three times ([[spoiler:to get her to take another sip]]).
** Steve serves Noa three [[spoiler:cannibal meals: Hope, Melissa, and Mollie]].
** Steve makes Noa guess what the drink tastes like three times ([[spoiler:to get her to take another sip]]).
** Steve serves Noa three [[spoiler:cannibal meals: Hope, Melissa, and Mollie]].
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* BlatantLies: When Noa turns down a second date on acount of him negging her and taking her food, Chad claims he was only being polite and calls her a stuck-up bitch.
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* BlatantLies: When Noa turns down a second date on acount account of him negging her and taking her food, Chad claims he was only being polite and calls her a stuck-up bitch.
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* BlatantLies: When Noa turns down a second date on acount of him negging her and taking her food, Chad claims he was only being polite and calls her a stuck-up bitch.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Inverted with Chad, who is condescending and kind of racist to their waitress.
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** Sebastian Stan taking advantage of a girl by [[spoiler:having sex with her despite not being attracted to her]]? Could be ''The Bronze''.
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** Sebastian Stan taking advantage of a girl by [[spoiler:having sex with her despite not being attracted just to screw with her]]? Could be ''The Bronze''.
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* IronicDeath: Not death per se, but the meat in the stinger is implied to be [[spoiler:Steve's]].
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* WomanScorned: ImpliedTrope. When she learns [[spoiler:her husband is seeing another woman, Ann becomes insecure, and ultimately tries to kill Noa with her bare hands.]]
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* SerialKiller: Steve is both the Hedonistic and the Cannibalistic kind: he eats his victims, but he sells the flesh as well, and he's actually not that happy with the killing part (he says), but [[SarcasmMode it's a sad fact that if you remove enough flesh from a human they die]].
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* EverybodyLaughsEnding: The final shot is of [[spoiler:Noa and Mollie]] laughing at how horrible their situation is.
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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''.
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* CastingGag: CastingGag:
** Daisy Edgar-Jones as a young modern woman struggling with dating a man with unusual sexual appetites? It could be''Literature/NormalPeople''.''Literature/NormalPeople''.
** Sebastian Stan taking advantage of a girl by [[spoiler:having sex with her despite not being attracted to her]]? Could be ''The Bronze''.
** Daisy Edgar-Jones as a young modern woman struggling with dating a man with unusual sexual appetites? It could be
** Sebastian Stan taking advantage of a girl by [[spoiler:having sex with her despite not being attracted to her]]? Could be ''The Bronze''.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Noa takes a picture of Steve while he sleeps, hinting that she's a bit of a creep. She sends it to Mollie, who points out that it's a creepy thing to do. A few scenes later, it turns out she is not the creep in this relationship, when Steve roofies her and chains her to his basement wall.
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* BaitAndSwitch: BaitAndSwitch:
** Noa takes a picture of Steve while he sleeps, hinting that she's a bit of a creep. She sends it to Mollie, who points out that it's a creepy thing to do. A few scenes later, it turns out she is not the creep in this relationship, when Steve roofies her and chains her to his basementwall.wall.
** [[spoiler:When Noa bites his testicles off, she smears something white in Steve's face. It is natural to assume that this is sperm, but a brief shot of a tube of toothpaste lying on the floor proves that assumption wrong.]]
** Noa takes a picture of Steve while he sleeps, hinting that she's a bit of a creep. She sends it to Mollie, who points out that it's a creepy thing to do. A few scenes later, it turns out she is not the creep in this relationship, when Steve roofies her and chains her to his basement
** [[spoiler:When Noa bites his testicles off, she smears something white in Steve's face. It is natural to assume that this is sperm, but a brief shot of a tube of toothpaste lying on the floor proves that assumption wrong.]]
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-->'''Penny:''' You two are so cute!
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-->'''Penny:''' ''(flatly)'' You two guys are so cute!cute.
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** The ending has Steve go full [[Film/TheShining Jack Torres]].
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* DeadpanSnarker: Penny has tendencies toward this, like towards the end, [[spoiler:when Mollie and Noa carry her out of the house after fighting and maiming their captor, Mollie says she was looking for Noa and found Steve, to which Noa apologizes and says "ItsAllMyFault"]]:
-->'''Penny:''' You two are so cute!
-->'''Penny:''' You two are so cute!
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* IronicEcho: Steve tells Noa to smile for him several times during her [[spoiler:captivity]]. She says it back to him [[spoiler:right before she shoots him in the face]].
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* IncrediblyLamePun: When Steve serves her breast, Noa points out that he "saved the breast for last".
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* RuleOfThree: Steve serves Noa three [[spoiler:cannibal meals: Hope, Melissa, and Mollie]].
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* CreativeClosingCredits: The end credits play over a Baphomet sigil, and midway through we get a shot of five people sitting around a table covered in bleeding meat.
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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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* TheStinger: Midway through the end credits we get a shot of five people sitting around a table covered in bleeding meat.
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* HighClassCannibal: Steve is a wealthy doctor who always had a cannibalism fetish, then procured women for "the 1% of the 1%", cuts off their body parts and sells their meat to this sizeable network.
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* ActorAllusion: The person Noa guesses was named Hope was really named Melissa. In ''The Bronze'', where Sebastian Stan also plays a character who takes advantage of women, the protagonist Hope is played by Creator/MelissaRauch.
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* ImmediateContradiction: Steve implies that he's a vegetarian by saying he "doesn't eat animals" -- not something you hear from people who are vegetarian for their health -- then follows it up by more-or-less demanding that Noa finish her meat.
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* ActorAllusion: The person Noa guesses was named Hope was really named Melissa. In ''The Bronze'', where Sebastian Stan also plays a character who takes advantage of women, the protagonist Hope is played by Creator/MelissaRauch.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Noa takes a picture of Steve while he sleeps, hinting that she's a bit of a creep. She sends it to Mollie, who points out that it's a creepy thing to do. A few scenes later, it turns out she is not the creep in this relationship, when Steve roofies her and chains her to his basement wall.
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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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** Noa is a word that means "freed from taboo", and she had better be, the way she goes about saving her and her friends' lives.
** Brendan means "prince" or "king", while Steven means "crown" or "wreath", and he is a narcissist to boot.
** Mollie can mean "rebellious", a trait which comes in handy when the police won't look for your kidnapped friend so you have to do it yourself. It can also mean "bitter", and she is the most cynical character.
** Paul means "small", and he is the only one to shrink from a confrontation instead of trying to save someone's life.
** Penny is usually short for Penelope, the woman who is famous for sitting at home waiting for her man to return. Penny lives a sinister version of this.
** Noa is a word that means "freed from taboo", and she had better be, the way she goes about saving her and her friends' lives.
** Brendan means "prince" or "king", while Steven means "crown" or "wreath", and he is a narcissist to boot.
** Mollie can mean "rebellious", a trait which comes in handy when the police won't look for your kidnapped friend so you have to do it yourself. It can also mean "bitter", and she is the most cynical character.
** Paul means "small", and he is the only one to shrink from a confrontation instead of trying to save someone's life.
** Penny is usually short for Penelope, the woman who is famous for sitting at home waiting for her man to return. Penny lives a sinister version of this.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Unlike Paul, who realizes just in time that he's in a horror movie, Noa firmly believes she's in a romantic comedy and misses or ignores all the red flags until it's too late.
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* SexEqualsLove: Steve seduces women to get them to come to his cabin alone, but it's more or less stated he doesn't have sex with all of them. When Noa asks him why he had sex with her, he tells her that he "likes" her, and so begins his apparent genuine affection for her.
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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 Disney]] for a release on March 4, 2022 on Creator/{{Hulu}}.
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''Fresh'' is a HorrorComedy film directed by Mimi Cave. It screened at Sandbox/{{Sundance}} UsefulNotes/{{Sundance}} before being picked up by [[Creator/SearchlightPictures Disney]] for a release on March 4, 2022 on Creator/{{Hulu}}.
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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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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: What tips Mollie off is that text messages from Noa's phone don't ''feel'' like they're from Noa.
* PoliceAreUseless:When Invoked when Paul suggests Mollie report Noa's disappearance to the cops, arguing that "she's white, isn't she?". she?" by Mollie laughs him off.laughing at the suggestion.
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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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''Fresh'' is a HorrorComedy film directed by Mimi Cave. It screened at Sandbox/{{Sundance}} before being picked up by Creator/SearchlightPictures [[Creator/SearchlightPictures Disney]] for a release on March 4, 2022 on Creator/{{Hulu}}.
