Companion (2025): A Satirical Horror About the Men Who Think They’re Owed Love
Companion (2025): A Satirical Horror About the Men Who Think They’re Owed Love "Find someone made just for you." — 8/10 Stars Companion (2025) review: Drew Hancock’s sharp sci-fi horror opens with a woman pushing a grocery cart through a supermarket—calm, ordinary, eerily familiar. It’s a direct echo of The Stepford Wives , but this film isn’t about suburban conformity. It’s about something far more contemporary: the belief that intimacy can be purchased, loyalty programmed, and love automated—so long as you’re the kind of man who thinks he’s owed it. Josh (Jack Quaid) brings his new girlfriend, Iris (Sophie Thatcher), to a lakeside weekend with his closest friends: the sharp-tongued Kat (Megan Suri), the warm-hearted Eli (Harvey Guillén), his partner Patrick (Lukas Gage), and Kat’s mysterious, married lover Sergey (Rupert Friend). Iris is beautiful, attentive, and unnervingl...