LAST NIGHT IN SOHO

Review: Aspiring fashion student Eloise is mysteriously able to enter 1960s London where she has a surreal bond with an aspiring singer Sandie. Things are not all they appear to be as dreams of the past start to crack and go into something far darker.
Director: Edgar Wright
Actors: Matt Smith, Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Diana Rigg, Rita Tushingham, Colin Mace, Michael Ajao, Synnove Karlsen, Jessie Mei Li, Kassius Nelson, Rebecca Harrod, Alan Mahon, Connor Calland, Pauline McLynn, Josh Zare, Terence Stamp and Jacqui-Lee Pryce
Year: 2021
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery and Thriller
Conclusion: 3/5
I have to say that this is not what I thought the film would be like. I didn’t quite realize how gory it would be. I love all of Edgar Wright’s films that he has directed over the years. Most famously The Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hott Fuzz (2007), The World’s End (2013). I very much enjoyed the script and thought it was very well written. I also thought it was a very good use of pop music. Apparently, Anya Taylor-Joy does her own singing when we see Sandie perform. Thomasin McKenzie dropped out of the film Top Gun: Maverick (2022) to star in this movie. About half way through the film I did feel like they were running out of ideas and didn’t quite know what to do. The alleyway that is used is called Newman Passage, and it’s also where the opening murder was filmed for Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960). This is the final performance of Diana Rigg, who passed away on September 10, 2020. At the end the film is dedicated to her memory.