An excellent film, based on a the gag that if you ever come across some British people abroad and they say you must come and visit them at their home in the countryside some day, something has to be seriously off!
McAvoy has always creeped me out a bit, but here he becomes the consummate on-screen avatar of all the darkly manipulative individuals I have ever rubbed up against — individuals who seem to actively seek out 'polite society' where they will always be on the edge of weird transgressions committed with a twisted smile, and who appear to like nothing more than making sure that acquaintances, especially new ones, join them in doing whatever they want to do, particularly if there is an element of danger, or indeed of weird transgression, involved.
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