No One is Coming to Rescue You
2025 · 10m · UK
Directed by Ruth Platt
Genres: dark comedy, thriller
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, tense
Harry brings his new girlfriend Jude to his doctor father's birthday garden party, not knowing she harbors a long-standing dark revenge against the father who wronged her, and what begins as an awkward social visit descends into bloody carnage. The film is a dark comedy skewering class, manners, and medical misogyny through the lens of female revenge.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Garden party. Doctor father. Revenge. Bloody carnage. Ruth Platt has figured out that the English social comedy format is just a horror movie waiting to happen.
Ruth Platt builds a Promising Young Woman / Prevenge revenge against the very specific wound of medical misogyny — the monster wears a stethoscope, which is a sharper political claim than the general garden-party-violence setup suggests.
A revenge thriller staged as a middle-class English garden party where the monster wears a stethoscope — that specific locus of medical misogyny is sharper than most genre revenge premises. Ten minutes contains the swing.