“If you have been a successful model, you have survived in an industry that is one of the few industries that are trickier for women than Hollywood,” says the filmmaker. But as Gutierrez notes, there is a tradition of models making the jump to lead genre films. “I love Ex Machina, and I’m very thankful to Ex Machina because it made it so money people could say, ‘Sure, we’ll give you the money to make it.'”Įlizabeth Harvest‘s leading lady Lee rose to prominence on the big screen in 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road, in which she played The Dag, one of the wives of the villainous warlord Immortan Joe. In Elizabeth Harvest, she had the challenge of leading a film opposite more seasoned actors - and also playing multiple versions of the same character. “When movies come out, they get reviewed and contextualized with everything that’s immediately around them, so we knew the Ex Machina comparisons would be inevitable,” the filmmaker says.
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When Alex Garland’s Ex Machina came out and proved a sci-fi movie taking place largely in one house could be successful, finding financing for Elizabeth Harvest suddenly became easier. I’d be much more interested in getting into how we ended up in this situation.’ Because to me, the surface story is something that is very familiar so I didn’t want to just stay there.”įor more than a decade, Gutierrez had been kicking around the idea to riff on the classic folk tale Bluebeard, about a young woman who marries a man who has murdered his previous wives. “I said, ‘I don’t want to stretch this thing out for an hour and a half. “When I first wrote the script several financiers said, ‘you could just make a horror movie out of this about this one thing,’ ” recalls Gutierrez. Imagine six copies of you? Available on UK Netflix if you fancy it.It’s a revelation that in other movies might have come at the end, but that Gutierrez wanted to push up. I really like Abbey Lee, who always plays the sexy ingenue but brought a vulnerability (and subsequent strength) to what could have been a pretty 2D part. You need to suspend your disbelief to stomach pretty much all of it but it was kind of cool. He’s already icky by default for having such a young, hot wife and referring to her as a ‘good girl’. The setting is cold yet glamorous and from the get go Henry is not to be trusted. I had no idea what it would entail but it has me at its premise. #5 is shocked to learn the truth but hasn’t much time to digest it when Elizabeth #6 (the last Elizabeth from a batch of six) wakes up. This entire back story is uncovered by Elizabeth #5 who is guided to Claire’s secret diary by Oliver, who is also after some information from within its pages. Once Claire realises this, even her devotion to Henry is shaken while there’s a terrible history between Oliver and Henry. In short, he’s getting a kick out of reliving his wedding night and then murdering his new wife, over and over. Henry and Claire have been working for years on a way to bring back Henry’s late wife who died in childbirth and had a rare generic condition.Īfter multiple attempts, most of which were not a success, Henry has grown tired of the project and his (somewhat) noble motivations have take a sinister turn. I’m trying so hard not give the game away but it’s all about cloning.
Can the next Elizabeth break the pattern by fighting back? Whaaaat? What’s a girl to do when she’s home alone and bored out of her mind? You got it.īut Elizabeth’s snooping lands her in hot water and so begins a horrific cycle of marriage, sex and murder as Henry deals with his duplicitous wife/wives. So far so Bluebeard, eh?Īs Elizabeth acclimatises to her new environment, including Henry’s spiky assistant Claire (Gugino) and blind Oliver (Matthew Beard), her husband is called away on unavoidable business. Everything in the home is hers for the taking except for one room, which she is forbidden to enter.
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The happy couple have just returned to his impressive home and Henry gives his lovely young wife the full tour. Elizabeth HarvestĪ brilliant man marries a beautiful woman and shows her his home, stating that it’s all hers – except a room she can’t enter…Įlizabeth (Lee) has just married the brilliant (and very rich) Henry (Hinds). This is more cubic zirconia than diamond sure, but it still has a certain shine. Netflix seems to be a hot bed for fucked up sci-fi/horror and I love finding the diamonds in the rough.
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