Last Night in Soho
Thomasin McKenzie gives a great performance in Last Night in Soho, but that isn’t enough to save this lackluster film.
Written by Krysty Wilson-Cairns (Story by Edgar Wright)
Directed by Edgar Wright
Rating: 🤷♀️ ok
To be a fashion designer in London has been Eloise's dream since the death of her mother as a young child. Shaped by the tragedy of losing her mother has left Eloise perceptive to the otherworldly, and with a passion for the 1960's like her grandmother who raised her. While attending London College of Fashion Eloise begins to have dreams of a glamorous 1960's lounge singer Sandy, and night after night starts to lose herself in the fantasy. However these dreams become a nightmare when Eloise realizes that she is unable to escape the horrors that Sandy has slipped into. Has Eloise been seeing the past as it unfolds, or has she sunk into a world of delusion and madness?
The concept, talent, and beautiful cinematography are all there but still the movie falls a little flat. It doesn't quite go far enough into the fantasy, the madness, and the suspense to really become the horror movie that it could have been. I wish that it would have gone a little further and truly f*cked with your head a bit more.
