Madison Belcher

Suspend your disbelief and let it turn your stomach like it should. This movie is no Oscar award winner, but it’s worth every twisted moment. Contemporary horror has a tendency to shy away from the vulgar and oversaturate itself with pop culture references while treating the viewer as incapable of making simple conclusions—obnoxiously forcing its breast into the viewers mouth. This movie mostly defies this rule by presenting the viewer with a somewhat unpredictable series of events made most evident in the first third of the film BARBARIAN takes all that is grotesque and personifies it. Hard to look at and at times even harder to look away, BARBARIAN presents the horrors both real and imagined that now lurk beneath every suspicious abode for generations to come. BARBARIAN shows it’s best moments within the first half, and as many movies— struggles to really stick the ending. BARBARIAN is a classic in the making, and despite it’s detriments likely will be an enduring piece of horror cinema.