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Canada · 2012
1h 36m
Director Jeremy Power Regimbal
Starring Selma Blair, Joshua Close, James D'Arcy, Rachel Miner
Genre Horror, Thriller
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In this dark thriller about grief and identity, a couple retreats with their young son to their wooded cottage after the death of their daughter. However, they find themselves becoming more and more afraid of their sinister neighbors, who begin to terrorize them for their own dark, sadistic motives.
An unnerving home-invasion thriller, In Their Skin has narrative bones we've certainly seen before, bearing perhaps the closest resemblance to Michael Haneke's two versions of "Funny Games." Nonetheless, the same simple premise achieves full creepy impact here without succumbing to cheap genre thrills or cool arthouse abstraction.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Director Regimbal does an effective job of slowly ratcheting up the tension and handling the sometimes brutal violence in a relatively restrained manner. Josh Close’s screenplay is equally nuanced, concentrating as much on the characters’ psychological complexities as the gothic thriller storyline.
Slant Magazine by Nick Schager
Winds up turning itself into just a rote thriller about psychos learning that, appearance notwithstanding, every family has dysfunctional problems.
The most frustrating thing about Jeremy Power Regimbal’s directorial debut is there’s part of a very effective thriller here. It’s just not the good part.
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