Genre: Drama/Horror
Director: Ben Wheatley
Writer: Ben Collins
Cast: Katherine Langford, Evan Peters, Ben Hardy, Hassie Harrison
Plot: January 10. An engaged couple, Trish (Hassie Harrison) and Darren (Evan Peters) are in their car, they don't talk and are staring straight ahead. Their car also hits a wild animal but they continue as nothing had happened. Later the camera shows snow falling and covering the garden of a beautiful house. Inside her Sabine Johnson (Katherine Langford) is on the phone with her brother Carl (Ben Hardy) because she is having trouble with the lock on the sliding door that was in the kitchen. Carl is a blacksmith and tries to explain to his sister ways to fix it. But Sabine can't do it and so her brother says he'll be over the next morning. Sabine tells her brother that she was having dinner guests, her friends Darren and Trish. The couple had celebrated his birthday the previous week but Sabine had not been able to see them due to her work and various commitments and so she had organized this dinner at her house. Sabine thanks her brother and then goes to check the roast in the oven and checked the time. The clock showed 8.30 p.m. Sabine realizes that she had lost track of time and that it was late. The appointment with Darren and Trish was scheduled for 8 p.m. Sabine picks up her cell phone to call but then she changes her mind thinking that there must have been some setback. The girl was still relieved for the delay in fact she was late with dinner and the roast was not ready yet. The only drawback was the problem of the sliding door that led to the pantry where there was wine and other supplies. To get to that room she would have to go out, walk around the house and enter the back door and with the heavy snow falling outside it would be a nuisance.
The roast was practically cooked and Sabine walks over to the front door to turn on the outside lights to illuminate the otherwise dark driveway. The girl opened the door to check that everything was working correctly and she was frightened by falling almost backwards. In fact, in front of him was Darren who was standing a few inches from the door. After the fright Sabine looked at him, he was wearing his gray sport jacket along with a green shirt peeking out from under his jacket, creased beige pants and black shoes and her face looked a little pale. However, Sabine joked with him for being scared. He didn't react much, he had a shy expression with his hands resting on his hips. After looking up at the light, Darren spoke to his friend for the first time. Darren greeted Sabine by saying he was there for dinner tonight in a monotone and cold voice. Sabine had sensed that something was wrong but she didn't bother thinking maybe he was having a hard day and she told him in a jovial voice that she was worried about being late and she asked him where Trish was. He turned and pointed to the car saying that Trish needs help carrying something around the house, a present for Sabine but which was quite heavy and bulky. Sabine squinted in the direction of the car and caught a glimpse of a figure who might have looked like Trish. Darren seemed restless at that moment and repeated the sentence from a few seconds earlier. Sabine didn't have much to go out but she was still grudgingly agreeing when she heard the sound of the timer announcing the roast was ready. She asked Darren to come in and warm up while he took his dinner out of the oven. He entered the house slowly, almost uncomfortably and seemed to look around and again asked Sabine to go out into the garden. Sabine smiled touching his shoulder closing the door and then ran into the kitchen to fix the roast saying it would take a few minutes. Darren followed the girl walking slowly and gave the feeling of being nervous or scared of something as he continued to look at the ceiling. Sabine told the boy to sit down while she opened the oven and took out the roast. The blast of heat was pleasant for her after being in the cold for a few minutes. Sabine told Darren there was a beer in the fridge and she could get it. Sabine took the knife to cut the roast and she realizes that Darren had neither sat down nor taken the beer but he was still standing there as if he was looking for something to do. At that point she Sabine asked him to cut the bread pointing to the knife on the set table. He looked at the object in amazement and wonder and took it in his hand. Sabine noticed that small drops of sweat were forming on Darren's forehead while his hands were white, almost like those of a dead person. Sabine loses her temper and snorts when she sees the boy still still and dazed and she decides to stop pretending that everything is fine and she asks him confidently why he was behaving like this. Darren didn't answer while he was still there staring nowhere as he held the knife steady in his hand with the blade facing the floor. At that point he again asked Sabine to come out. Sabine didn't know what to think and what to do, she also thought it was a joke.
Darren and Trisha were in fact a rather naughty couple and enjoyed making jokes every now and then, even if in this case it seemed that the situation was really absurd. Sabine, however, wanted to stay in control and maintain a positive atmosphere. She approached him smiling, patting him on the shoulder promising him that after the last preparations with dinner she would go out into the garden with him. At that point Darren slowly turned his head towards the sliding door saying that he could quickly get out of that door, looking relieved by that possibility but she Sabine told him that she had the broken lock and it was locked. Moments later Sabine realizes that Darren's face was dripping with sweat and his hands also looked wet. Some features of his skin looked red, almost like a slight sunburn. He began to look at the table, Sabine, the roast and the ceiling with quick movements of his head and looked really uncomfortable. Sabine didn't know what to say by stammering something. He asked again if they could please come out in a panting voice and drop the knife. At that point Sabine forced him to sit down, he was very rigid and more and more sweaty. His clothes were also wet with his sweat. Sabine had never seen anything like this in her life, it seemed like Darren was melting. Then she gave him a glass of water telling him that she would go to Trish after calling the paramedics. The girl looked at her cell phone but she looked like she had no line, possibly due to her heavy snowfall. At that moment the ringing of the landline phone from her other room anticipated her, making her jump. On the phone it was Carl, Sabine's brother. Sabine could not say anything about the absurd situation she was witnessing because he immediately stopped her by saying if she had seen the news on the news about Darren and Trish. Sabine gaped in silence when Carl informed her of the death of her two, which occurred a few hours before her. She turned to look at Darren, but from her position she couldn't see him. She told her brother it wasn't possible because Darren was in her house. He started stammering trying to process what his sister had just told him and then said the police had found their bodies in the house a couple of hours earlier. Then a noise from the kitchen caught Sabine's attention. The girl dropped the phone and headed for the kitchen. The sliding door to the kitchen was open with the lock torn with pieces scattered on the floor. The pantry door was also open, and the cold air of that winter evening had entered the kitchen. Darren was gone, the chair he was sitting in was very wet and his clothes were on the floor, as wet as if they had just come out of the washing machine. There was one more thing besides shirt and pants. Terror appears on Sabine's face when she realizes it was human skin. Next to it were jelly-like footprints of an odd, almost triangular shape that seemed to change size with each step. At that point Sabine heard Carl scream from the handset she had left earlier and went back there. She struggled to speak and could only say that she was still there. At that point Carl said that a neighbor of Darren and Trish had found them dead in their garage, their bodies completely skinned. Then she called the police and followed the footprints that reached the woods that bounded her yard. When the police arrived they discovered other similar footprints coming from outside and were close to Darren's car and another human skin was found nearby hours later. Carl was with her and had proposed to keep her company. By the time everyone left it was dawn and Sabine realizes that probably the light or the heating had made it so that the strange being she had not been able to put her plan into practice. She shivered when she thought she had turned her back on him multiple times and given him a knife. She finally collapsed on the sofa with pictures of what might have happened if she followed Carl outside.
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