Wake Up Dead Man adds a delightfully dark twist to Knives Out

When manager Rian Johnson introduced the caller Knives Out movie connected the 3rd time of TIFF 2025, helium exclaimed: "we're going backmost to church."

By that helium meant that Wake Up Dead Man, the latest Benoit Blanc mystery, would harken backmost to the origins of the whodunit, and successful peculiar the gothic vibes of Edgar Allan Poe. And present that I've seen it, I person to accidental that Johnson pulled it off: the caller movie has a darker and much spiritual consciousness than its predecessors, and yet it's inactive distinctly Knives Out, which is to accidental twisting and hilarious. I gasped a fewer times, arsenic did the remainder of audience, astatine the galore reveals. I'll person a afloat reappraisal successful the comin …

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