The Trip

• Comedy
• Horror

A darkly comedic and increasingly chaotic weekend unfolds as a bitterly estranged couple, each plotting the other’s demise at a secluded cabin, find their murderous plans hilariously upended by a series of increasingly bizarre intruders – including a relentlessly cheerful self-help guru and a pair of escaped convicts with unsettlingly polite manners. The film leans into uncomfortable humor born from escalating violence and failed assassination attempts, subtly exploring the corrosive nature of resentment and the desperate, often absurd, lengths people will go to escape unhappiness. It’s not a slasher, but a relentlessly awkward and brutally funny exploration of marital breakdown played against a backdrop of escalating mayhem, finding a strange, perverse comfort in the shared predicament of its characters.