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#REVIEW: “HER PRIVATE HELL”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest takes us to a neon-lit futuristic metropolis with streets full of a dense fog that harbours a macabre urban legend.
We follow actor Elle (Sophie Thatcher), who has a strange relationship with her Director father Johnny (Dougray Scott). Elle returns to her father’s skyscraper apartment with the promise of filming his next project. However, Johnny quickly informs her that he will be departing on a journey. Therefore, leaving Elle with her ex-friend and now stepmother, Dominique (Havana Rose Liu), and aspiring actor Hunter (Kristine Froseth) to film the project. But one night the three girls witness a murder at the towering apartment next door. It turns out the urban legend Johnny told the girls about the Leatherman is real, and they just witnessed one of its kills.
Her Private Hell has Refn’s signature atmospheric direction and eclectic characters. This world is fully realized and feels both familiar yet foreign. The characters feel similar to those we saw in Neon Demon. These are aspiring artists at differing stages in their careers coming together to create something. Thatcher is strong as this off-kilter, self-absorbed young woman. It’s a difficult character that shows Thatcher’s range and proves she can make any character likeable. The dynamics amongst the three women are intriguing, yet we lose some of this when we find out the Leatherman is real.
After the reveal, we get brought into a separate storyline, one that has no apparent connection to these three women. We are introduced to Private K (Charles Melton), an American soldier who believes the Leatherman took his young daughter. We follow his quest to find the man who stole his daughter. Melton gives an action-packed, emotional performance as this grieving father. This storyline includes high-octane fight sequences that catapult the audience into an action-revenge film. This genre shift feels disconnected from the sci-fi-horror atmosphere that came before it. We continue to flip-flop between these two plot lines; at times it feels like we’re watching two separate films set in the same world.
We watch as these two storylines follow their own journeys down a rabbit hole. For Elle, Dominique, and Hunter, it’s rage, jealousy, and lust. This will definitely have some audience members scratching their heads while others will enjoy this unique wild ride. For Private K, we watch him delve into revenge. It’s the more accessible storyline of the two, but because of that, it feels less original.
There’s a lot to like in Her Private Hell, but there are too many ideas thrown into this futuristic metropolis to get through the fog.
Elevation Pictures release HER PRIVATE HELL on Friday, July 24, 2026.
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