Alone With You Review: Tense, Frightening Isolation Horror Gets It Right
The real-world horrors of the pandemic have been translated onscreen in varying shades, culminating in one-room horror offerings such as last year’s We Need To Do Something and Oxygen. Alone With You, in more ways than one, is a triumph in the one-room horror genre. The film is able to capture the visceral nature of isolation and cabin fever, elevating them to a fever pitch. Utilizing subtle jump scares and layered mystery to unleash its many nightmares, Alone With You drips with fearful intrigue right up until the end.
Alone With You opens with Charlie (Emily Bennett) getting her apartment ready for girlfriend Simone (Emma Myles) to celebrate their anniversary together. Simone, a professional photographer, is away on a work trip, and Charlie is doing her best to welcome her partner back home. However, all is not well. Between receiving condescending video calls from her friend Thea (Dora Madison) and a video call from her overbearingly religious mother (Barbara Crampton), Charlie begins feeling increasingly on edge, especially with Simone not answering her calls at all. Things turn creepy really quickly: glimpses of an ominous figure inside the house can be seen at the periphery of certain scenes, videos start glitching in a rather unsettling way, and the front door refuses to budge, rendering Charlie trapped inside.
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The reason why Alone With You succeeds in emerging as such a compelling paranoid horror is that it knows how to utilize its slow-burn narrative format to deliver spaced-out scares. Subtle visual cues are provided to introduce a sense of disorientation and a hint of madness: time stops working (literally, all digital times freeze and
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