Paola (Humberly Gonz\u00e1lez) is a pretty young woman about to turn 30 who hasn\u2019t found herself a steady boyfriend \u2013 so, like many people of her generation, she\u2019s on all the dating apps. The algorithm finds her match in Henry, who looks clean cut and kind eyed \u2013 or, at least, that\u2019s what he seems from a very short video conversation on the phone, which breaks up due to bad signal. Paola\u2019s sister Maria (Shaeane Jimenez) is visiting town because her and Paola\u2019s father (Peter Butler) is going in for an operation, and warns her more trusting sibling not to accept Henry\u2019s invitation to come to dinner at his house, away from the public gaze.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Of course, Paola should have listened to her sister. The good looking guy (played by Luke Volker) turns out to have been a catfishing lure, and the real Henry (Jacques Adriaanse) looks like what you\u2019d get if a troll mated with a slime mould. Plus, it\u2019s actually Henry\u2019s deranged mother, Lucille (a fantastic Dianne Simpson) who\u2019s been writing all those courtly messages to Paola \u2013 who is soon sedated with drugged wine and wakes up about to be raped, exactly the sort of scenario your actual mother warned you about.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, it\u2019s not all grim worst-nightmare-ever stuff, thanks to a slyly witty script credited to Al Kaplan and Jon Kaplan, directed with impish verve by Danishka Esterhazy. There are some very funny scenes, including a great two-hander between Lucille and another possible victim, Natalie (Nikita Faber), who hasn\u2019t been completely honest about her own presentation online. The last stretch has lashings of practical effect gore to keep the genre fans happy, but it\u2019s the sour social satire that lingers in the imagination afterwards.<\/p>\n
Match is on digital platforms from 24 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paola (Humberly Gonz\u00e1lez) is a pretty young woman about to turn 30 who hasn\u2019t found herself a steady…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-741814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}