Sunday, October 2, 2022

Hello Horror 2022 - Day 2 - The One I Love (2014)

  Ethan (Mark Duplass) and Sophie (Elizabeth Moss) are on a weekend retreat to reconnect on the advice of their therapist (Ted Danson).  They're having a nice enough time, but soon discover that the guest house comes with some amenities they weren't expecting.  Like their doppelgängers.  Ethan 1 gets more suspicious when Sophie starts spending more and more time with Ethan 2 but he is not prepared for how far the doubles are willing to go if it means freedom.

Oh, relationships!  They are filled to the brim with horror in the right hands.  This focuses a lot on Ethan, his mental state, his emotional responses, which I'm not in love with.  I would have preferred a more equal representation, considering that it's Ethan's infidelity that leads to the therapy and then to the pod person/Stepford experiment.  

There's no gore, no violence, no jump scares.  It's purely psychological horror.  If that is your bag, feel free to hop on over to HBO Max where it is streaming.  It's also on Kanopy and with ads on Tubi.


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