After kissing his wife and baby goodbye for a seemingly normal business trip, Reed checks himself into a hotel room to accomplish something he’s always dreamed of: the perfect murder. As his sinister plans unfold, he soon realizes he might be in over his head with a mysteriously unhinged call girl named Jackie.
Direction
Pesce's debut drips with Takashi Miike worship and Italian horror fetish.
Production
That fake Tokyo hotel built in Queens? Pure uncanny valley perfection.
Costume
Jackie's outfits weaponize vulnerability and control simultaneously.
Director
Nicolas Pesce
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Christopher Abbott learned to use actual power tools for the role because Pesce wanted authentic muscle memory in the close-ups.
The film adapts Ryū Murakami's novel but Pesce transplanted it to a deliberately fake 'Japan' as Reed's psychosexual fantasy space—notice how the hotel staff never speak Japanese on screen.
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