Far removed from the “Get Out” fervor that might’ve once propped it up, Shephard’s body horror can safely stand on its own as an uneven but gobsmacking delight - and you don’t need to be tricked into cuing it up. In reality, “The Perfection” is so much better, bolder, gayer, and grosser than that.
Think something akin to Damien Chazelle’s “Whiplash,” but starring a Leighton Meester in “The Roommate”-type and themes even more toxic to queer women. Watch the trailer for “The Perfection” now (it auto-plays on the platform, and is still maddeningly misleading) and you can easily envision a C-tier flick about an obsessive, unstable ex-cellist meeting her prodigy replacement and getting even.
Marketing for “The Perfection” positioned Williams’ perceived duplicity brilliantly in its new context: effectively inviting audiences they were confident would try the film anyway to misunderstand her complicated character as a full-stop bad guy in the movie’s promotion. Fresh off her Froot Loop-induced lunacy, the former “Girls” star was a newly minted scream queen, known for playing type-A villains with elaborately hidden motives. When “The Perfection” hit Netflix in 2019, there was no question that distributing Allison Williams’ first film since Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” was a decent play among subscribers. Where to Watch This Week’s New Movies, from ‘Passages’ to ‘TMNT: Mutant Mayhem’
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