Role Play
2025 · 16m · UK
Directed by Kyle Jon Shephard
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, provocative, tense
A struggling couple's awkward attempts to reignite their relationship through role-playing spiral into chaos when a mysterious stranger named Mick appears in their home, and Lucy improvises that he's there for a threesome — leading to dark confrontations and blurred lines between fantasy and reality.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
3.9 million views means it's working on someone, and the double twist about who's performing for whom is at least a real engine. Killing Eve / Creep comparisons set high expectations the SOTW thumbnail probably won't meet.
The hidden-camera voyeur grammar pivoting cringe comedy toward menace echoes Patrick Brice's Creep, and 3.9M views in four months is not a number to dismiss. A formal double-twist that reframes who has been performing is a serious narrative gambit when it works.
Sixteen minutes thirty-five with a double-twist on who's been performing for whom, and 3.9M views in four months is the kind of crossover that usually means the structure actually pays off. Voyeuristic hidden-camera framings sound right for the bait-and-switch on intimacy.
Reviews
Role Play delivers dark British humour at its finest, with one-liners landing perfectly and physical comedy hitting just as hard.
Role Play is a film about performance in every sense — and the question of who's performing for whom is answered only in its final, astounding moments.