Barbarian (2022)

A young woman turns up in a quiet neighbourhood for a job interview and reaches her Airbnb long after dark, already tired and just wanting to settle in, only to find someone else has the place. The guy inside seems decent enough, but the mix-up leaves her stuck outside in the rain with few options. After weighing it up and trying to keep things polite but cautious, she decides to stay in the spare room, hoping the awkward start is the worst of it. Through the night she picks up small things that feel a bit off, nothing dramatic on its own but enough to keep her a little on edge. By the next day, she realises the house itself feels wrong in ways she cant quite pin down. Doors dont behave the way they should, the layout feels slightly twisted, and she keeps catching hints that someone else mightve been in the space before either of them. As she tries to push through her schedule and stay focused on her interview, the house draws her back in with details that refuse to line up. Her attempts to make sense of the situation only leave her with more questions, and the guy shes sharing the place with becomes harder to read the longer shes around him. What starts as a simple booking error slowly turns into a pressure cooker of unease. The more she tries to get clarity, the more the house seems to hide, and shes forced to decide how far shes willing to push for answers. The tension builds around her second-guessing her instincts, checking shadows twice, and trying to separate ordinary weirdness from something that feels genuinely dangerous. By the time she digs deeper into whats behind the strange behaviour of the house and the scraps of information left by whoever lived there before, she realises shes stepped into something far bigger and stranger than a mix-up between two guests. The story leans into creeping dread instead of loud shocks, letting the slow drip of uncertainty pull her into a situation that keeps tightening around her until she either gets out or gets swallowed by whatever has been waiting beneath the surface.