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— — Death of Me (2020) Film Review, a movie directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, and starring Maggie Q, Luke Helmsworth, Alex Essoe, Kat Ingkarat, Kelly B. Jones, Caledonia Burr and Chatchawai Kamonsakpitak. Don’t watch this film if you have just had a meal. Don’t watch it if you can’t handle [...]

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Vacationing couple Neil and Christine wake up from a heavy night’s boozing on a remote Thai island to find their passports missing and their memories largely blank. No clarity is forthcoming when Neil checks his phone’s photos from the night before, only to find an extended video in which he has rough sex with his wife, before strangling her to death and burying her in a shallow grave. The premise of “Death of Me” is the kind of tidily absurd “whoa, wut” pitch that Charlie Kaufman’s fictitious hack brother Donald might have dreamed up in “Adaptation”: It sounds at once stupidly intriguing and intriguingly stupid, but it has our attention either way. As handled by sometime “Saw”-meister Darren Lynn Bousman, this attractively mounted B-horror maintains that lurid, grabby quality even as its already sketchy ideas devolve into dubious, incoherent exotica.

For followers of Bousman’s work,...

"I was dead! How am I standing here?!" Saban Films has released the first official trailer for Death of Me, yet another new film from horror filmmaker Darren Lynn Bousman. He just released St. Agatha last year, and already finished the new Saw reboot Spiral (watch the trailer) but since that has been delayed until next summer, they're releasing this one before it. Death of Me has a pretty cool concept: a couple on holiday in Thailand wake up without any memory of the night before. There's footage on the camera of Neil seemingly murdering Christine, yet they're still both alive. What is really going on? Luke Hemsworth co-stars with Maggie Q, and a small cast including Alex Essoe, Kat Ingkarat, & Kelly B. Jones. This looks so twisted and intriguing! I am more than curious to find out what kind of "black magic" mystery is behind all of this. Here's...