Anyone can sell their clothing you just pay a weekly rental, and you price the items yourself. “ is a place where anyone can sell their clothing and hire a rent space. “I always wanted to start my own business, so I thought ‘what could I bring from Finland to Australia?’ The Prelove market thing was what I missed from home. “ is a Scandinavian concept from Finland, which is where I’m from,” says Kati. So far, the concept has been a great success. Kati Wilson and her husband, James, opened their first Prelove store in Hove in 2020, followed closely behind with their new Westlakes store in 2021. The murder part almost seemed unnecessary-the interpersonal dynamics were fraught enough, and I found myself wishing the killers might get the address wrong so the delicately wrought psychodrama could continue uninterrupted.If you’re a savvy shopper who has a deep love for all things sustainable, we have some good news for you! Prelove is opening a third location in Gawler, bringing bargain rent-a-rack offerings to the northern suburbs. Everyone is slightly annoying and annoyed with each other and trying hard to have a fun weekend, and the dynamic is quickly established as an intimate, believable quadrangle of frenemies and family. But in The Rental, the dialog preserves the rhythms of a Swanberg movie, playful and loose. They also don’t tend to be the murderous types.

(His movies helped establish Greta Gerwig’s career, as well as the Duplass brothers’.) His genre is often referred to as “mumblecore,” which I’ve always found to be a misleading label-his characters tend to be gabby and aimless, talking in circles to one another rather than under their breath. Swanberg is an independent filmmaker best known for his largely improvised micro-budget comedies about relationships between the young and loquacious. The Rental doesn’t try to reinvent this section, but it nails the character-building. Most horror films about groups of friends who encounter evil have a prolonged first act where all the buddies pal around and their relationships get established before the violence kicks in. Unlike your run-of-the-mill Airbnb or your run-of-the-mill slasher flick, this one has something unique-its first half. That said, The Rental is still worth renting. It’s almost as if Franco and his cowriter Joe Swanberg filmed scenes as backup placeholders, intending to flesh out the conclusion later, and then forgot to replace them with an actual finale. I should say now that The Rental doesn’t stick its landing-the ending is jarringly abrupt and vague, an ellipsis where an exclamation mark could be, and it diminishes an already modest movie. But it is an awkward one, because Charlie and Mina are clearly into each other as more-than-colleagues, even though she’s dating his brother and he’s married-oh, and the host of their deluxe vacation pad is a weird, leering yokel who lurks around the property. Josh and Charlie are brothers, as it turns out, so it’s not such a hard sell. The film opens with the pair flirting as they discuss booking the luxurious cliffside home. Slick techie Charlie (Dan Stevens) and his business partner Mina ( Sheila Vand) convince their significant others Michelle (Alison Brie) and Josh (Jeremy Allen White) to go away together to celebrate an entrepreneurial victory. Things take a turn for the menacing, then the violent. The Rental’s premise is simple: Four friends book a gorgeous house on a picturesque coast for the weekend. And actor Dave Franco’s directorial debut, The Rental, which is hitting VOD and select drive-ins today, mines this territory too.

This summer, the upcoming Kevin Bacon-led thriller You Should Have Left will take place in another such cursed accommodation. Last year, Tone-Deaf cast Robert Patrick as a homicidal host preying on an airhead millennial renting his property, while Trespassers featured Fairuza Balk as one of the eponymous interlopers interrupting a gaggle of hot yuppies on their rental property. In 2015 the indie slasher flick 13 Cameras featured a lecherous peeping landlord as its villain.

The impostery vibe of Airbnbs lends itself well to horror, and in recent years several directors have channeled it to create an updated version of the home-invasion film.

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