While hardly the first entry in that tried-and-true subset of film revolving around someone lured to any manner of nondescript palatial estate by an individual possessing more than a hint of mystery, only for things to soon spiral rapidly out of control, Emerald Fennell’s 2023 escapade “Saltburn” might be the most recent, or at least the most noteworthy. Though Fennell’s thriller would see the luree, as opposed to the lurer, reveal himself as the one to be feared, it nonetheless checked off the remaining boxes while inadvertently leaving the door open for followers like “Electra,” where the old saying of how something walked so its descendent could run finds itself applied here.

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