Other than the genre, I went blind into this movie. And I was enjoying Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan’s flirtatious romance so much that I hoped a yeti would step out of an alley and attack. I didn’t want the source of the horror to be either one of these characters. And that’s a very solid way to open a film.

Fresh is about a single woman just looking for a guy who won’t call her a bitch at the end of the evening. She meet cutes Sebastian Stan in a grocery store and then quickly fall for each other. When he asks her to go away with him for the weekend, you know she should have said no.

This is a pretty sick, pretty sordid, pretty gross, occasionally rock-solid campy fun little suspense thriller/horror/comedy. I think it deals with just enough taboo that some people will never go along with its demented lunacy.

And the title reveal, coming so late into the movie, is particularly devilish. Just a fine example of the crafty nature of the screenplay.

I was for it… and chuckling when it would go camp and grossed out when it got more serious. It was working for me and I wish I’d rate it slightly higher, but I think it gets a little bogged down in the middle. But the sweet, sweet revenge is both sweet and so full of revenge that it almost makes up for it.

I enjoyed the flick overall. If you have a strong stomach for both suggestive and blatant visuals and just for stomaching a particularly grisly taboo, you might have fun with it too. As long as you don’t just find it too distasteful.

For sure though, Cap would be so disappointed.

Score: 78