Who Invited Them Reviews
Though I found it incomplete, I found it amusing and worth seeing.
| Original Score: B | Jan 11, 2023
This housewarming party from hell that just won't end finds humor and horror in the suffocating details of social awkwardness.
| Nov 8, 2022
Birmingham does a good job teasing the audience with the possibility of violence, while coyly withholding the orgy of bloodshed that seems sure to explode at some point.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2022
It manages to be laugh out loud funny while also making the audience feel uneasy.
| Oct 18, 2022
Even though the film's small talk carefully sows seeds for dramatic tension later, the characters' reactions aren't sharp enough to land what feels like a half-hearted followthrough.
| Oct 4, 2022
Strong performances elevate this thriller in which dark secrets lie beneath a veneer of showy surroundings.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 19, 2022
No one wants to be talked to death, and no one wants to wait nearly 60 out of 80 minutes for something to happen that isn’t people being socially awkward. Is socially awkward the new psychological thriller? Gosh, I hope not.
| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 9, 2022
Part Funny Games, part millennial Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, this is a successfully discomfiting black comedy-cum-thriller, even if it doesn’t ultimately quite work up enough of a compensatory froth to get away with its ambiguous ending.
| Sep 7, 2022
Who Invited Them is a cleverly written film that audiences may think they have seen before, and once a certain conversation about the house starts, then alarm bells should be ringing for horror fans.
| Sep 1, 2022
Birmingham uses ... apparency to the film’s advantage, creating a mounting sense of tension and dread as the viewer desperately anticipates the other shoe's inevitable drop.
| Sep 1, 2022
A staid home invasion thriller about a timid married couple who are bullied by two flirtatious strangers.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 1, 2022
Chasing status and sacrificing everything for other people’s approval...have dire consequences. Who Invited Them might not explore those consequences in the most clever or surprising way, but it does so with a twinkle in its eye and a dark sense of humor.
| Sep 1, 2022
A solid little thriller.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2022
They say nothing good happens after 2 AM - Who Invited Them proves the nightlife adage entertainingly correct.
| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Aug 31, 2022
Who Invited Them agilely alternates between being unnerving and hilarious, thanks to witty writing and a remarkably entertaining cast.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2022
A fresh take on an invasion film with a quirky plot and playful script.
| Aug 30, 2022
Who Invited Them? would have benefitted from a little more breathing room than its 80-minute runtime allows, but this is an accomplished film with entertaining, if predictable plot twists.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2022
The four principals deftly play the power shifts occurring between Adam and Margot as well as the two couples, at least until Birmingham loses the thrust of his own final reveal.
| Original Score: C+ | Aug 29, 2022
Who Invited Them is simplicity done right with a killer twist
| Aug 29, 2022
Tense, taut, but always relatable, Who Invited Them plays bait the bear with the viewer. Later events may be sign-posted early on, yet that doesn’t lessen the audience’s enjoyment of watching it all unfold.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 28, 2022