If someone had asked, “What do you think Zoe Kravitz’s debut film as a director will be?” would you have guessed “a film in which Channing Tatum invites people to a private island and then fucks with their memories?” I can’t say I would have come up with that—but I’m glad Kravitz did. Blink Twice (which was originally titled Pussy Island) has a certain Glass-Onion-gone-haywire vibe: Tatum plays a billionaire tech bro with a bunch of questionable friends who invites two women he apparently just met (Naomi Ackie and Alia Shawkat) to a debauched gathering on his private island.
At least, that’s what seems to happen. At first. But there’s a moment where this trailer takes a wild turn, and Ackie’s character finds herself the only person who remembers Shawkat’s Jess. Jess, naturally, is the one who wonders, “So do you think the human sacrifice is before or after dinner?”
As Christian Slater’s character says, “There’s something weird going on here.” The hints are all there; one guy is desperate to find his knife, while another has a mysterious black eye he seems unconcerned about. Things simply don’t track, and in a most intriguing way.
Kravitz co-wrote the film with E.T. Feigenbaum, who also wrote an episode of the Kravitz-starring High Fidelity series. Blink Twice also stars Kyle MacLachlan, Haley Joel Osment, Adria Arjona, Geena Davis, Simon Rex, and Liz Caribel. It’s in theaters August 23rd.
