Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Graphic
- dread-filled
- sardonic
- oppressive
- late night horror viewing
- short film festival programming
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Tom Renner's interview at Birkenholz AG transforms business aspirations, food, and corporate prestige into cannibalistic horror.
The promising interview and formal meeting atmosphere conceal that nothing at Birkenholz AG is what it appears to be.
Renner's hope for glamour and professional glory becomes the mechanism leading him into a nightmare.
The interview environment at the world-renowned company provides the film's central space of escalating horror.
Films like The Invitation, and why
The Belko Experiment
corporate horror, social unease, and a protagonist trapped in an apparently respectable environment
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
cannibalistic horror, darkly comic grotesquerie, and escalating bodily threat
The Invitation
polite social rituals concealing menace, psychological dread, and disturbing revelations
Sorry to Bother You
surreal workplace setting, institutional cruelty, and nightmarish dark comedy
Movie Details
- Director
- Thorsten Schade
- Release Date
- 2020-04-01
- Runtime
- 24 min
- Rating
- 0.0 / 10
Cast
- Orestes Fiedler
- Annika Herget
- Sebastian Kowitz
- Maria C. Liedhegener
- Neven Nöthig
- Rainer Besel
- Simon Jakobi
- Fynn Zinapold
Common questions
- What is The Invitation about?
- A career-seeking developer enters an elite German company's interview and discovers that corporate hospitality can conceal a cannibalistic nightmare.
- What is The Invitation like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Invitation as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is The Invitation violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in The Invitation as graphic.
- Which films are like The Invitation?
- Films with a similar feel include The Belko Experiment, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Invitation, and Sorry to Bother You.
- How long is The Invitation?
- The Invitation runs 24 minutes.
