"Companion"

Josh (Jack Quaid) takes his new, smitten girlfriend Iris (Sophie Thatcher) to a cabin owned by the wealthy, mysterious Sergei (Rupert Friend) for a weekend of fun and relaxation. There the nervous Iris will be meeting Josh's friends for the first time, consisting of Eli (Harvey Guillen) and Kat (Megan Suri), the latter of whom has never liked Iris, and Eli's new boyfriend Patrick (Lukas Gage). But what starts as a weekend away quickly takes a turn for the worst, as the friends turn on each other in a flurry of confusion, bigotry and entitlement...

After a rather lackluster affair until this point of the year, we finally get something fun, sharp, well written and relishing its concept.
I was lucky enough to manage to go into this blind, so when the twist came after 25 minutes, it was incredibly satisfying.

I recommend that you do the same: go in blind and relish the humour and sense of playful fun. It takes its premise and, after that initial shock twist (which I called as a joke after some, shall we say deliberate and loaded lines) it doesn't run out of steam, instead amping up and stretching the premise, pulling it, playing with it and toying with every angle until it snaps. As the characters (excellent performances across the board, particularly from Quaid as he becomes an entitled, petty, vindictive loser, all the while looking like Sam Lake pulling the "Max Payne" face) degenerate and devolve into panicked plotting, scheming and covering up their escalating mistakes, it remembers to fall back on the mayhem, and things it has hinted at, and stays energetic and funny.

One character gets a well-delivered line about "being an ally, but this is a lot of money!" whilst they attempt to kill another. Thatcher (fresh off the back of "Heretic" which I rather enjoyed) anchors proceedings nicely, getting put through the wringer but also allowed to flex her comedy chops with a funny sequence involving German and the police.

It remembers to stay buouyant and energetic as characters charge through the woods, even whilst covering topics like misogyny, bigotry, the entitlement of male rage (Thatcher has had terrible luck between this and "Heretic") and even that simple, basic awkwardness of being stuck in a house party with strangers you have never met and wondering if you're good enough (not quite as focused on that as the excellent "Bodies Bodies Bodies" was, but welcome at the beginning nonetheless) to be here. Between this, "Smile 2" and "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" I am happy to see Gage doing well too, and Harvey Guillen is always welcome. Rupert Friend is having fun with his part (playing a budget Dan Stevens part and relishing every part of it), and Megan Suri is my favourite, with her casual cattiness and shallow cruelty adding spice to proceedings.
Oh, and it's incredibly B-Movie in its sensibilites too, which is very much my jam.

That last image may technically be a spoiler, but honestly even if you know the twists going in, they're well executed and explored well.
I had such fun with this.