Barbarian (2022) review

While in Detroit for a job interview, Tess (Georgina Campbell) reserves a house to stay at using the Airbnb service, but it turns out a man named Keith (Bill Skarsgård) is already renting the place - after some initial discomfort and confusion, he encourages her to stay ... but there's something seriously wrong going on in the basement.  It begins promisingly enough - with Campbell's character stuck in a strange situation in a dangerous neighborhood - but then manages to pull the rug out from under itself not once but twice: it then shifts the narrative (and tone) to TV actor AJ Gilbride (Justin Long) accused of rape - who, it turns out, owns the house Tess and Keith were at - and then it does it again, going back to the 1980's with Frank (Richard Brake), who enjoyed raping (and recording) women.  Not only is this all horribly disjointed, it's also deprived of common sense: Cregger, who wrote the script (and was one of the members of comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know), thinks he's being inventive, but resorting (like so many other directors) to using a sagging geriatric woman as his villain (complete with floppy boobs!) is lame.  I don't know about everyone else, but I personally can't wait for Gen Z and the early Millennials to start getting wrinkles and gray hair....