Everyone Is Going to Die – Movie Review (2/5)

EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE is a new home invasion thriller. It gets very dark but also feels – to me, at least – very unrealistic in certain ways. Still, I was on board for quite some time before it lost me. Read our full Everyone Is Going to Die movie review here!

EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE is a new thriller with a home invasion mystery plot. The cast is tiny and the story plays out in one place (or one house) which is something that – in my experience – requires a lot of both the screenplay and cast.

It can be an amazing and intense experience to be forced to focus on this one location and few characters – think The Platform, Brooklyn 45 or You’ll Never Find Me. However, it doesn’t take much for the story to lose momentum or feel forced. Both happen with this one!

Continue reading our Everyone Is Going To Die movie review below. Find it in select theaters or VOD from February 21, 2025.

Home Invasion meets Revenge

I don’t want to give away spoilers for Everyone Is Going to Die, but I do want to explain the core plot. This is a home invasion thriller, but the home is not chosen at random.

In other words, this isn’t a “Because you were home”-situation like in the brilliant horror thriller The Strangers (2008) or its sequels. They do wear masks which made me think of the horror franchise which has another two movies coming out in the current trilogy.

In Everyone Is Going to Die, the home has clearly been chosen due to some previous event. In other words, this is a revenge story wrapped up in a home invasion plot.

We meet a father as he attempts (rather clumsily) to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter. Managing to get rid of last night’s lover just before she arrives, is clearly something he feels he should be commended for. Obviously, it just sets the tone for what kind of person he is.

He has invited his daughter to his luxurious home for a birthday dinner, but she’s clearly there against her better judgment and would much rather be elsewhere. Seeing how he behaves around other people, you can’t blame her. He’s trying but she isn’t ready to let him in.

Maybe ask a woman or ten…

What begins as an interesting if not very engaging movie turns into something extremely dark and, unfortunately, also quite cringeworthy. While most of the cast is female, the writer and director is not.

And it shows!

This is a perfect example of watching a movie and thinking “There is no way a woman was involved in making this” and being shocked if you were wrong. The way this story evolves and escalates in its “revenge” plot is absolutely terrible.

Look, I get the idea behind it. However, it makes zero sense to me and I cannot imagine anyone surviving trauma and/or assault would watch this and feel understood. Quite the opposite. In fact, I felt angry and not in the way I was supposed to.

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The writer and director of Everyone Is Going to Die is Craig Tuohy, and this is his first feature film as a director. He has worked as a producer on everything from documentaries to short films in the past, so he’s hardly a newcomer.

Also, I want to state that I feel his intentions are good even if the outcome feels very misguided to me. His sense of revenge feels warped from my point of view. But hey, I fully recognize that other women might see it differently. I just seriously doubt that I’m not the vast majority.

The main cast consists of Jamie Winstone (accomplished actor and daughter of Ray Winstone), Brad Moore, Chiara D’Anna (Strickland‘s The Duke of Burgundy and Berberian Sound Studio), and Gledisa Arthur.

The ending is uncomfortable for many reasons but no scenes feel gratuitous which is extremely good – and important with this sort of story. I was on board with the movie and storyline for quite some time before it lost me. The runtime is 84 minutes, so it doesn’t run for (much) too long.

Everyone Is Going to Die is in Select Theaters, on Digital and On Demand on February 21, 2025.

Details

Director: Craig Tuohy
Writer: Craig Tuohy
Stars: Jamie Winstone, Brad Moore, Chiara D’Anna, Gledisa Arthur