The director of Boiling Point is back to turn up the heat once again in this grippingly lean thriller about an all-too-plausible fear of becoming the main character online.
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00:00 Out in the US on Tubi and in the UK on Netflix is Accused, the new thriller from Philip Barentini,
00:05 the director of Boiling Point.
00:07 In the aftermath of a terror attack, Chenille Coulard's Harry finds himself misidentified
00:12 as the perpetrator by an online witch hunt, and is attacked by two vigilantes who track
00:17 into his parents' country home.
00:19 Accused is chillingly timely and relevant.
00:22 We've all seen how a misaccusation online can snowball to a dangerous extreme, especially
00:27 in this case where it's teamed with racism and stereotyping, and while there are a few
00:31 moments that stretch credibility, it remains eerily plausible.
00:35 Coulard, best known for his work on Sex Education, is fantastic in the lead role of what is often
00:40 a one-man show, getting increasingly terrified as events spiral further and further from
00:47 his grasp.
00:48 It does become more of a conventional home invasion thriller in the second half, but
00:51 it's a well-executed one.
00:52 Barentini knows how to draw tension out of minimalism, and there was genuinely a lot
00:56 of moments where my heart was pounding in my chest.