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Film Review — Companion
Drew Hancock’s sci-fi-thriller-horror-satire features a fine lead in Sophie Thatcher, but don’t let the trailer spoil it for you
I’m not the first reviewer to note that the trailer for this film gives too much away. Like the critic in question (Mark Kermode), I am also grateful I did not have writer-director Drew Hancock’s Companion spoiled for me. I can only second his urging that if you are going to catch this sci-fi-thriller-horror-satire gem, if at all possible, do so without having seen the trailer. In fact, I’d also recommend avoiding online spoilers, especially on social media (I’d recommend avoiding the latter in any case, just for superior quality of life).
Staying away from spoilers, I’ll provide only the briefest of plot teasers. Somewhere in the near future, a young woman called Iris (Sophie Thatcher, recently seen in last year’s cracking Heretic) ponders the moment she met Josh (Jack Quaid) in a supermarket. Love at first sight, apparently. Yet, in the opening line of the voiceover, Iris also mentions a darker event she remembers, and it is this event that intrigues the viewer. At any rate, the young couple seem happy, and we pick up with them as they head to a private mansion in the woods by a lake owned by an acquaintance called Sergey (Rupert Friend). Iris is nervous that she…
