A remote cottage in the English countryside becomes the whole world of this 2022 British drama-horror from writer-director Alex Garland, who trades city noise for green fields and lets the quiet do most of the unsettling.
What is Men about?
Still processing the death of her ex-husband, a woman travels alone to the countryside hoping for rest and distance. What she finds instead is a village that seems ordinary on the surface and steadily less so the longer she stays, with the men she meets there blurring together in ways the film never fully explains and never rushes to. Garland builds the tension through repetition and atmosphere rather than jump scares, letting small wrongnesses stack up until the calm of the setting starts to feel like the threat itself. It's a film more interested in dread than plot mechanics, and it withholds easy answers by design.
About the cast
Jessie Buckley carries the film in the lead role, with Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu, Gayle Rankin, Sarah Twomey, Zak Rothera-Oxley, and Sonoya Mizuno rounding out the cast. The ensemble is built around a single performance under sustained pressure, with the surrounding characters shaping the mood of the village as much as advancing the plot.
Context & significance
Men arrives from Alex Garland, a filmmaker already known for genre work that leans on ideas and imagery over conventional scares, and this title continues that pattern rather than breaking from it. At 100 minutes, it's a tightly contained film that trusts a single location and a small cast to carry the weight, favoring mood, symbolism, and slow-building unease over a sprawling plot. It sits closer to psychological horror than the jump-scare mainstream, and it rewards viewers willing to sit with ambiguity rather than a tidy resolution.
Watching Men on Ktime
Men streams on K-Time with a free account login, and both Persian dub and Persian subtitles are available, so viewers can watch it in whichever format suits them. That makes a deliberately slow, atmosphere-driven film like this one easier to settle into for Farsi-speaking audiences who want the option of either the dub or the subtitles.