Director: Jill Gevargizian
Notable Cast: Najarra Townsend, Brea Grant
Originality is overrated. I’ve said it before and I’ll say
it a million times on repeat until I bleed from my ears and eyes. It’s in the
execution where a film finds its freshness. A willingness by its creative
elements to own its history and define its future is key. The Stylist is
absolutely a representation of that ideology. To boil down its concept to its
bare bones for an audience to decide if it's worth its weight in plastic and
paper, one could easily call this film Single White Female through the
lens of Maniac. It’s not wrong to describe it that way, but it’s the
execution of that viewpoint that crafts a stunning horror picture. The
Stylist takes a little off the top and adds a bit of color and highlights
to the mixture described, but the results are a stunningly nuanced, heartfelt,
and often terrifying concoction ready for the horror runway.