Men is More Like Annihilation Than Ex Machina, Alex Garland Says
After being nominated for an Academy Award forThe Lost Daughter, Jessie Buckley will next appear in the upcomingA24 movieMen. According to writer-directorAlex Garlandin an interview withEntertainment Weekly (EW), Men is “a horror movie about a sense of horror,” or, more simply, “a ghost story.” Buckley will play Harper, a young widow who, following the death of her husband (Paapa Essiedu), has rented an isolated holiday home in the English countryside. The innkeeper there (Rory Kinnear) warns Harper against biting into the “forbidden fruit” on the property, and Harper can’t stop seeing his face in every resident in town, including children....