It's What's Inside

31 Days of Horror more or less

It’s What’s Inside (2024)

Trailer that reveals the premise that I’m spoiler-blurring and comes up quite early but it has only been out for four days

Getting its own entry as it’s new to Netflix as of this weekend. Horror-adjacent as a dark comedy with an SF/F premise.

A group of more-or-less friends meet up years after their college closeness, including a tech genius who brings a game of sorts...

A body-swapping device that can switch all eight of them around. So they can guess who’s who.

And they’re mostly drunk and/or high enough to go for this, and for it to spiral out of control.

Writer-director Greg Jardin has some tricks to stop it getting too confusing, while keeping it confusing.in places, as well as some other flourishes like the flashbacks appearing as Photoshoppy edits as they’re discussed and corrected.

(I wonder why the key prop design looks like a 1970s amp rather than something new and shiny, it makes the connection-switching really clear but suggests a possible backstory about the tech’s age that doesn’t come up.)

I laughed a fair bit. I suspected a plot turn was coming partially due to out-of-character reasons but didn’t get close to everything.

The medium: An indie film Netflix brought in.

Gameability: Another game going wrong. Including a shoutout to “Mafia, Werewolf, whatever”. This particular game would be hard to keep trackof, but certainly something that can come up in a weird enough setting.