Horse Girl – ABC Film Challenge – Mystery – H – Horse Girl – Movie Review
Director: Jeff Baena
Writer: Jeff Baena, Alison Brie (Screenplay)
Cast
- Alison Brie (Scream 4)
- Molly Shannon (Promising Young Woman)
- John Ortiz (Silver Linings Playbook)
- Debby Ryan (Insatiable)
- Matthew Gray Gubler (King Knights)
Plot: Sarah, a socially isolated woman with a fondness for arts and crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life.
Runtime: 1 Hour 43 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Horse Girl starts as we meet Sarah (Brie) an ordinary woman who works in a craft store. She spends her free time watching her old horse and catching up on her favorite TV show.
However, Sarah’s life takes a strange turn when she starts having strange dreams. She starts believing she is being abducted by aliens and cloned. However, his own mental health starts to catch up with her as the events increase.
Verdict on Horse Girl
Horse Girl is a mystery thriller following a lonely woman who starts to see her mental health catching up with her. She starts believing she is being abducted by aliens and sets out to learn the truth. However, the few people in her life see a more concerned series of events in her actions.
This is a strange movie, it starts by showing the ordinary life that feels routine. Once the strange dream happens it gets to take us into a strange mystery. We see how her own paranoia leads the investigation to go down a confusing series of events. It does keep everything well balanced between her paranoia and mental health. This helps offer a discussion of both sides before we lead to a conclusion.
Final Thoughts – Horse Girl is a strange journey covered in mystery.
